INTRUDER DISCOVERED BAKING POTATO, RAKING LEAVES

A New Mexico man is facing charges after police say he walked into an unlocked home, stole car keys, and stunned a resident who found him baking a potato and raking leaves. Patrick Lynn Waits, 45, was arrested early Tuesday after a female resident awoke to noise in her kitchen, and found Waits allegedly wiping down a countertop and baking a potato in her microwave oven. She asked him what he was doing there, and he told her he was making a potato. When told to leave, Waits left his potato in the microwave, walked outside, and began to rake leaves in the front yard. The female resident told Waits she wanted to pay him for his service, as a ploy to get him to stay long enough for police to arrive. They found Waits stumbling while walking, and he slurred when he talked. He was arrested on burglary and unlawful entry charges.
* Stumbling? Slurred speech? Maybe he was lightheaded ’cause he never got to eat the potato?
* Or maybe the potato wasn’t the only thing that was baked.
* The one guy who’ll clean kitchen countertops without being asked, and this happens.
* This just goes to show that if you get a guy wasted enough, he’ll actually do chores.
* It was better than raking the potato and baking the leaves.
* This guy could be a good fit for the prison kitchen.
* I like how the guy said he was baking a potato like that made it okay.
* “What am I doing? I’m baking a potato in your kitchen. What does it look like I’m doing?”
* Now comes the final proof he was wasted: It’s early June. There are no leaves to rake.