Real Life Zombie Attack In My Hometown!!!

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This is just too fucked up to believe:

http://www1.keenesentinel.com/main.a...rticleID=67353


Shaken up by a burglary attempt: A Keene man tells of strange ordeal


MELANIE PLENDA and KAREN SANBORN
Sentinel Staff


Barking dogs and a gunshot weren’t enough to scare off a man who used a shovel to try to force his way into a Keene house Saturday night, the homeowner said.

Travis Saulnier, 26, of 173 Washington St., Keene, was arrested Saturday on a slew of charges. He is accused of attempting to break into the house at 342 Chesterfield Road Saturday at about 10:15 p.m.

Police allege they found Saulnier trying to pry open a door with a shovel. Cpl Eliezer Rivera said Saulnier refused to drop the shovel when asked to by police.

“He’s lucky he’s alive today,” said homeowner Dale J. Peloquin, 40, who said he fended off the would-be burglar Saturday night before police arrived.
“I just keep thinking what would have happened if he had gotten in the house with that shovel? What would he have done? I would have had no choice but to end it right there.”

Peloquin said he was getting ready for bed when he heard his dogs barking and looked outside to see what the problem was.

He said he noticed someone wandering onto his property and thought maybe the man had been drinking or had been in an accident and needed help. The house is located near Route 9 in a remote part of Keene.

“He started making these zombie-like noises at the top of his lungs,” Peloquin said.

“He was groaning and grunting, but really really loud, so I hollered out to him, and he just kept making these noises. I figured he was under the influence of something. So, I hollered out to him again to get off my property. That’s when he decided he was going to try to come in my house.”

Peloquin alleges Saulnier began bouncing himself off the glass sliding-door at the back of his house.

“I just stood there on the other side of the slider in disbelief, wondering if this was really happening,” he said.

Tammy L. Kenyon, 38, who also owns the house, was on the phone with police as Saulnier continued to hurl himself and other objects at the glass door, Peloquin said.

Saulnier then gave up on the back door and went around to a front sliding door. He again tried to get in, gave up, went to the front porch and picked up a shovel, Peloquin said.

That’s when Peloquin went for his gun, he said.

“He smashed the shovel through the window next to my door and started cleaning out the glass in the frame like he was going to come in,” Peloquin said.

“I cocked my gun and squeezed off a warning shot — blew a chunk right out of the siding in my house. I told him the next one was his. He was going to eat it. It didn’t even phase him. He just kept pounding on the door.”

The intruder started using the shovel to bash in the front door.

Peloquin braced himself against the door as the intruder continued to beat it down. This seemed to go on forever, Peloquin said.

Then the door jam gave way.

“Just then the police showed up,” Peloquin said. “Next thing I know there’s cops all over my front lawn with AR-15 assault rifles pointed at him.

“He’s lucky, because I had just reached decision time as to what would happen if he got in,” Peloquin said.

Even as police arrested Saulnier he seemed to be unaware of what was happening, Peloquin said.

“He was still making those noises; he was a total freak show,” Peloquin said.

He was taken to the Cheshire County jail in Westmoreland, where he has been held for lack of $3,000 cash bail.

Charges against Saulnier include: attempt to commit burglary, trespassing, possession of burglary tools, possession of marijuana, resisting arrest, loitering and criminal mischief.

He was scheduled to be arraigned today in Keene District Court.

This morning, Peloquin said he and Kenyon were still coming to terms with what happened.

“We’re both pretty shook up today,” Peloquin said. “It was quite an ordeal.

“Crime in our area is next to nothing, unacceptable is not a strong enough word for what happened. The more I think about this the more wound up I get. ... It just goes to show you what can happen to you in just a matter of minutes.”

[Myron Breck]

Great. I can't wait to hear which horror filmmakers the lawyers plan on suing. I just hope they weren't friends of John Grisham.

[fceurich39]

yep this is cool

So where is the zombie? Sounds like a drugged out fuck to me.

[maybrick]

Read between the lines. If you watched more Kolchak you'd realize that if this Saulnier guy was really the "living dead" that aspect of the story would be covered up.

[wago70]

Yikes, I'd be freaking out!!!! That intruder, however, would be really dead, though.

[Wez4555]

sue Uwe Boll! its all his fault! he had weed on him. can weed make you do that? ive been smoking it for awhile now and ive never done anything like that, well maybe jokingly to friends. that must of been some fire weed.

[Shannafey]

It's all Dave's fault for making a home to the horror community!

[maybrick]

I've heard that if weed is laced with ammonia it can have a similar effect to PCP. To update this story, the guy is saying he "blacked out" and doesn't remember anything. Also, at the time of the arrest he was on probation for DWI. I learned since that he lives directly across the road from a few friends of mine (who have been jokingly considering boarding up their doors and windows, just in case) and that another friend (who is a teacher) remembers him as one of his 6th grade students who was already "over six feet tall and well on his way to becoming the next Leatherface" (my friend's words) and that he isn't at all surprised with any of this.

[maybrick]

Oh, another amusing thing. Not only was this "zombie" compared to Leatherface by a former teacher, but the apartment house he lives in looks exactly like the house from PSYCHO.