LMFAO! Here’s a story that started off with a dead fish and ended up with a man accused of stealing a boat and needing to get himself rescued by the Coast Guard. Talk about going off on a tangent! Damn bro! It all started in Astoria where a guy named Jericho Labonte, 35, was suspected of leaving a large dead fish on the porch of the “Goonies” house. You know, that hilarious and awesome movie from back in the day? That house, but Sloth wasn’t there, reportedly.
Then, it gets better! The Coast Guard gets a call that there’s a “mayday” situation in the Columbia River, in Oregon, in a spot where it’s known to be quite treacherous. A boat rescue was too dangerous, so a helicopter had to fly out. Guess who it was? It was the same guy accused of leaving the dead fish on the “Goonies” porch. This guy was on a boat that was reportedly stolen and he couldn’t handle it. The boat was about to capsize and he luckily got rescued by the Coast Guard. CBS Austin reported on the hilarious and stupid situation:
Coast Guard officials decided to lower the rescue swimmer, who was on his first rescue, and have Labonte enter the water. Just as he jumped into the water, the vessel capsized. The rescue swimmer was able to safely get to Labonte, who was flown back to the Astoria Coast Guard Base for a medical evaluation.
He was released around 3:30 p.m., as authorities at that time did not know the boat was stolen. Police were notified around 4 p.m. that the boat had been stolen from the Astoria Port. Police found Labonte at a warming shelter in Seaside, where he had used a fake name. They arrested him around 7:30 p.m.
Officers had been looking for him since Wednesday, when an acquaintance alerted them to a video he had posted on social media of himself leaving the fish at the Goonies house and then dancing around the property, said Astoria Police Chief Stacy Kelly.
This is one of those crimes that just has me cracking up. I hope the owner of the stolen boat has good insurance though, because that boat is history! Thanks to WorldStar HipHop for the video!
