INTRUDER USES RATTLESNAKE TO THREATEN VICTIM

An Arizona man is accused of entering a home uninvited and threatening to kill residents with a rattlesnake he picked up somewhere in the wild. Nathaniel Buck Harrison, 38, of Oracle, was arrested on July 23 after police said he entered a home and accused a man of “being a rat” who sent his friend to prison. At some point during the altercation, Harrison broke a board over the 53-year-old victim’s head, and tried to get his rattlesnake to bite the victim. Despite repeated efforts to get the snake to attack, nothing worked. At one point, Harrison made the victim kneel on the floor. Then he fired a handgun into a speaker on the floor near the victim’s foot. Deputies arrived after getting a 911 call about the shooting. Harrison eventually came out of the house and was taken into custody. Deputies found the snake and released it back into the wild without questioning. This was not Harrison’s first use of wildlife to threaten people. Suzi Riddell, the manager of the Justice Mobile Home Park, where the assault took place, says Harrison has gone to other people with big hornet’s nests and tried to throw them in their door. “He gets a crazy idea, and wants to go with it.”
* What was the snake’s problem? Stage fright?
* This is what would’ve happened if Dr. Doolittle had used his power over animals for evil, instead of good.
* Then there were some other ridiculous plans like the time he brought in a hyena to laugh at his victim.
* He wasted a whole day one time trying to get some fish to swim into a guy’s mobile home.
* One time he showed up with a trained seal and had it balance the victim’s TV set on its nose.
* Then he brought in an elephant to sit on his victim’s car.
* I kind of like this guy. The world needs more creativity.