Dog Walk Goes Insanely Wrong For South Hill Man

MCMILLIN, WA - This man's dog may never want to go for a walk again.

The 32-year-old man took his small dog out for a walk just before 6 a.m. last week. But somewhere along the way, the walk went off the rails.

First, drivers began calling 911 to report a man wearing only underwear and a crown of twigs shouting at cars near the intersection of Military Road and SR 162 south of Bonney Lake. The man was also flagellating himself with sticks, according to police.

Then, police got a call from a farm along military road. A passerby was holding the crazed man at gunpoint after witnessing the man pull someone out of their truck and beat them.

When Pierce County deputies arrived at the scene, the crazed man was asking to be shot. When the man saw police, he grew even more agitated, and charged at them.

They hit him with a shot from a Tazer. The man started to get up, but deputies threatened another shot from the Tazer, so he submitted and allowed the cops to handcuff him.

"What just happened?" the crazed man asked police, suddenly snapping out of his mania. The man answered his own question, telling deputies he had a bad reaction to a combination of methamphetamine and heroin.

He was taken to jail on charges of resisting arrest and assault. His dog, Sophie, was taken by Pierce County Animal Control.

Image courtesy Pierce County Sheriff's Office