Doofus Of The Day #217

Today's Doofus is a 17-year-old from Medford, Oregon.

Around midnight Sunday, the boy lifted the garage door at an empty home on the 3400 block of Blueblossom Drive in southeast Medford with a jack from a car and crept under the door, [police spokesperson] Budreau said. The jack failed, dropping the door onto the boy and pinning him underneath.

Around 3 a.m. Monday, the boy's mother noticed the teen wasn't in his bed. She searched the house, then stepped outside, where she could see his legs protruding from the garage in the neighbor's driveway, Budreau said.

She couldn't free him, so she called 9-1-1 for help. Firefighters ultimately had to break into the house to get to the garage door opener and unpin the boy. He was treated and released at a local hospital, them cited on a charge of trespassing.

Trapped beneath a garage door? A cat burglar, he ain't . . . perhaps an armadillo burglar? And what's a cop in Oregon doing with the name of Budreaux? I thought we had a monopoly on them down here in Louisiana!



Peter