Teh One Who Knocks
01-27-2012, 10:43 PM
Written by Kimball Perry - Cincinnati Enquirer
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Anthony Spicer had a novel explanation for why he was in an abandoned school that also had its copper pipes cut – ghosts.
Spicer, 29, of Linwood, told police and the judge he only went into Linwood School, 4900 Eastern Avenue, because he was looking for ghosts.
“When you were in there looking for ghosts, is that when you found the (pipe) cutters?” Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Norbert Nadel asked him.
“It’s supposed to be haunted,” said Spicer who lives near the school.
“You don’t expect me to believe that, do you?” Nadel asked.
The judge then asked if Spicer took the bag -- which the judge believed was to be used to carry copper pipes out of the school -- in with him to fight ghosts.
“Did the ghosts cut the copper pipes?” Nadel asked.
Spicer didn’t give a good answer.
Copper pipes often are stolen and sold at scrap yards.
Spicer pleaded guilty last month to breaking and entering in exchange for prosecutors dropping a charge of possession of criminal tools.
Nadel placed Spicer on probation for three years, ordered him to get a job and to pay $740 in restitution -- $440 for damage to some of the copper pipes and $300 to replace the window broken to get into the school.
http://i.imgur.com/0bSfe.jpg
Anthony Spicer had a novel explanation for why he was in an abandoned school that also had its copper pipes cut – ghosts.
Spicer, 29, of Linwood, told police and the judge he only went into Linwood School, 4900 Eastern Avenue, because he was looking for ghosts.
“When you were in there looking for ghosts, is that when you found the (pipe) cutters?” Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Norbert Nadel asked him.
“It’s supposed to be haunted,” said Spicer who lives near the school.
“You don’t expect me to believe that, do you?” Nadel asked.
The judge then asked if Spicer took the bag -- which the judge believed was to be used to carry copper pipes out of the school -- in with him to fight ghosts.
“Did the ghosts cut the copper pipes?” Nadel asked.
Spicer didn’t give a good answer.
Copper pipes often are stolen and sold at scrap yards.
Spicer pleaded guilty last month to breaking and entering in exchange for prosecutors dropping a charge of possession of criminal tools.
Nadel placed Spicer on probation for three years, ordered him to get a job and to pay $740 in restitution -- $440 for damage to some of the copper pipes and $300 to replace the window broken to get into the school.