Byron Andre Womack is charged with waving a samurai sword on I-65 in Indiana, then declaring that he was “cuckoo for cocoa puffs.” (Credit: Indiana State Police)
UPDATED 09/06/11 10:14 a.m.
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (CBS) – Call it the showdown with the samurai.
Indiana State Police say they encountered a shirtless man wielding a 35-inch-long samurai sword on the inner shoulder of Interstate 65 on Sunday afternoon near U.S. Highway 30. Police say farther north, a Toyota had been abandoned in the middle lane of southbound I-65 at 61st Avenue.
The swordsman, who wore plaid knee-length shorts, was marching “like a drum major, holding the sword, moving it up and down in rhythm with his marching cadence,” the state police said in a news release.
When a state trooper approached him, the man swung the sword “in a defensive manner,” police said.
The swordsman, dressed only in plaid shorts and slip-on shoes, then tried to gain entrance to a 2010 Chevrolet sport-utility vehicle that was pulled over on the expressway to avoid a responding Merrillville police car, state police told the Sun-Times Media wire.
Finally, the suspect was handcuffed by Merrillville police, who ordered him to the ground at gunpoint.
At the Lake County, Ind. jail, the offender, Byron Andre Womack, 43, of Cicero, announced that he was “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs,” state police said.
He was charged with attempted carjacking, resisting law enforcement and possession of marijuana.
Authorities say Womack gave several different names before his identity was verified.
123 Comments
what a dope addict
September 4, 2011 at 10:32 pm
bath salts
September 5, 2011 at 6:43 pm
narcotics!!!!!!! gotta love em it can have you saying “I did what?”
September 4, 2011 at 10:41 pm
. . . another Obama relative?
September 6, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Jim Belushi after an especially big bowl of breakfast?
September 4, 2011 at 11:05 pm
I’m guessing the “Twinkie defense”?
September 6, 2011 at 5:38 am
Wow!
September 5, 2011 at 5:15 am
My dad is a retired FBI agent and I can tell you if there is tin foil hat division,you have a file there.
September 5, 2011 at 3:29 pm
My comment before was @ J
September 5, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Has anyone seen Joe Biden?
September 5, 2011 at 1:35 pm
LOL. awesome!!
September 5, 2011 at 9:25 pm
May be anther Obama relative, Huh
September 6, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Love it!! LOL
September 6, 2011 at 6:49 pm
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There can be only one.
September 5, 2011 at 1:45 pm
LOL!
September 5, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Hell yeah! Word up!
September 6, 2011 at 4:35 pm
let’s call it like it is …… This is radical Big Govt and Unionized Socialism vs Capitalism .
6 Major Trade Union Leaders call themselves Socialist .
September 5, 2011 at 1:46 pm
September 5, 2011 at 1:52 pm
He jus liked the little kidz..
September 7, 2011 at 12:56 am
Come on folks … that’s just the traditional I65 Labor Day Parade.
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September 5, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Asked if he wanted to call an attorney, he simply replied, “I think I will call the White House.”
September 5, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Ding ding ding … we have a winner!
September 6, 2011 at 5:39 am
gee, he sounds like a good GOP presidential candidate
September 5, 2011 at 2:14 pm
I was thinking look another Democrat!
September 5, 2011 at 5:32 pm
With at least two votes there too!
September 6, 2011 at 7:26 am
Well, he at least appears as grounded in reality as the current POTUS, and probably has a better economic plan.
September 6, 2011 at 9:48 am
haha, what a lame description.
September 5, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Where’s Smedly (Captain Crushes pet elephant) when you need him.
September 5, 2011 at 2:24 pm
I meant Captain Crunch. . . .so much for that laugh.
September 5, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Sounds like Chuckie Schumer Demonratic senator New York.
September 5, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Probably just a union lemming follower of Trumpka, Hoffa and Obama taking it to the Republicans and the Tea Party members.
September 5, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Sounds like ‘Hiro’ just wisked himself out of a dangerous situation to Indiana. lol
September 5, 2011 at 2:48 pm
No, Trek…
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September 6, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Well, at least they managed to nab this clown before he came to San Francisco and became a blight like other brethren from hick towns before him.
September 5, 2011 at 2:54 pm
He would blend in and not even get noticed in SF.
September 5, 2011 at 6:03 pm
ggy???
September 6, 2011 at 12:45 am
Yes, but was he raising his knees up high when marching…that’s the key to marching like a drum major. Hopfully he practiced before his performance so that he didn’t look insane.
September 5, 2011 at 2:59 pm
I wonder of he drives a Volvo and wears white socks with sandals?
September 5, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Hey Morenette they said what he drove and what he had on his feet in the article….lame joke!
September 6, 2011 at 10:27 am
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Cocaine is a helluva drug.
September 5, 2011 at 3:26 pm
He had Pot on him…moronic comment
September 6, 2011 at 10:28 am
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He was looking to kill because he hates black people.
I bet he is with the t-party.
September 5, 2011 at 4:09 pm
If at least ten percent of the nation is clinically insane and just plain wacko, that is alot of people, maybe 31 million at least.
September 5, 2011 at 4:29 pm
People losing mind during desperate times. We will be see a whole lot of nuts on the streets as the economic depression continues.
September 5, 2011 at 4:30 pm
You said it all there, guys and girls go to jail in our town just to get off the streets……So glad you did not blame the weed….
September 5, 2011 at 7:24 pm
What kind of cruddy third rate POS town do you live in horsey? Not that I believe what you wrote is any way true I’m still curious.
September 6, 2011 at 1:39 am
What a load of horse hockey, just becasue you’re a loser don’t think everybody else is.
September 6, 2011 at 1:38 am
O gee, I thought it was global warming that caused him to do tihis. I burnt my toast this morning. It was global warming’s fault.
September 6, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Sounds like a card carrying member of the Indiana Tea party. Where is Sarah Palin when they need her? She should be in Indiana to pick up her buddy in her luxury freedom bus. Maybe he was walking to the Tea Party presidential debate. LOL
September 5, 2011 at 4:39 pm
You are full of ssshhhiiitttt!
September 5, 2011 at 5:30 pm
I suppose you missed the location. It’s very close to Illinois. Near Chicago to be exact. Now let’s see, who was it from there that’s been in the news? Oh Yeah, I remember, Obama and Daly, those leaders of the Tea party. Oh wait, they’re Liberal Democrats. They have just as much to do with this nut as the Tea Party.
September 6, 2011 at 1:50 am
Seriously? I think we all have to agree after this failed administration that delusional and insane are apt descriptions of anyone that continues to support the Socialists destroying our nation. Other than top union officials and other cronies, who is better off, or even has the same liberty, compared to 3 years ago?
September 6, 2011 at 9:51 am
See? SEE?! Now THAT’S why I always keep my sword concealed…..”there can be only one!”
September 5, 2011 at 4:42 pm
No Tony..just another looney obama voter looking for his obama ‘stash’.
September 5, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Yeah, but I’ll bet that guy at least had a real birth certificate.
September 5, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Was there anything UNUSUAL about the guy?
September 5, 2011 at 6:00 pm
lsd
September 5, 2011 at 6:08 pm
This guy plays it right, he could parlay this into a reality show….The Indiana Samurai
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September 5, 2011 at 6:10 pm
What is Burt doing in Indiana??….He must have left Western PA…Pot is not this guys only problem….
September 5, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Oh joy. NW Indiana makes Drudge.
September 5, 2011 at 7:33 pm
He’s giving Cocoa Puffs a bad name.
September 5, 2011 at 8:55 pm
must be another of Mr dumbamas relatives
September 5, 2011 at 9:53 pm
Drugs are bad, mmkay?
September 5, 2011 at 11:21 pm
A better opening line for this story might be labor union thug gets a head start on carrying out Hoffa’s charge to No destroy the republicans.
September 5, 2011 at 11:37 pm
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Joe Biden was in Indiana?
September 6, 2011 at 1:35 am
Good batch of LSD?
September 6, 2011 at 7:24 am
Please Mr. President, keep Joe Biden on his leash. Do not let him go out and play, see what happens when you do.
September 6, 2011 at 7:39 am
Dad?
September 6, 2011 at 7:40 am
And what are you Cuckoo for, Junior?
September 6, 2011 at 11:32 am
He would have gotten away with it if he had brought his 40 incher…probably just needs to have his medicinal marijuana dose upped. That would work….or they could just let someone help him convert to roadkill.
September 6, 2011 at 7:46 am
How unfortunate that the man was not taken to a psychiatric ward for evaluation. Quite possibly, through no fault of his own, this man has suffered a mental health crisis. Like other bodily organs, the brain is susceptible to damage through injury, toxins, disease or other causes. The man is fortunate he was not killed in his encounter with public safety officers who viewed this as a law enforcement issue. Unfortunately, crises like this scenario often result in death or a criminal record, rather than treatment and a return to productive life. The stigma of mental illness and the criminal record place additional, unnecessary burdens on people whose neurons sometimes misfire.
September 6, 2011 at 8:02 am
Waaaaahhh.
Samurai SWORD. Trying to get INTO someone’s car.
Lucky they didn’t just shoot the loony little crackerbox.
September 6, 2011 at 8:25 am
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HEY—everyone leave poor Rod Blagojevich alone! He’s had a tough year, OK??
September 6, 2011 at 8:23 am
There’s alot of people like that serving in the United States Congress
September 6, 2011 at 8:44 am
What’s wrong with that? Bonzai!
September 6, 2011 at 8:59 am
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Why didn’t they just shoot him? Isn’t that standard procedure?
September 6, 2011 at 10:16 am
This was the poor man’s reaction to finding out the Emperor has no clothes.
Take your pick: Obama, Daley, Biden, Hoffa, etc.
September 6, 2011 at 10:45 am
… “He was charged with … and possession of marijuana” …
… Ddduuuudde … that had to be some …
September 6, 2011 at 10:52 am
Walking point for the Hoffa/Obama army?
September 6, 2011 at 11:23 am
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I don’t understand. Why isn’t this guy running for office?
September 6, 2011 at 1:12 pm
he has my vote…….
September 6, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Nice to see members of the Obama administration working in Indiana.
September 6, 2011 at 2:48 pm
I guess he was early for the gay pride parade… opps.
September 6, 2011 at 3:54 pm
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As crazy as a crackhouse rat
September 6, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Has anybody yet stopped to think that he indeed might be Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs ? After all, that yummy cereal is mighty, mighty good !
September 6, 2011 at 6:34 pm
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There are different degrees of mental illness.
Some we hear about daily
Some others, we just hear about the bill they passed.
September 6, 2011 at 7:50 pm
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I appauld the Gentlemen’s support for this once beloved breakfast cereal. If only the Irish would show similar devotion to Lucky Stars. There may yet be hope for our distressed country with this Cocoa loving lunitic leading the way.
September 6, 2011 at 9:05 pm
He should come to Florida and march on a major road we have here called Military Trail and do the drum major cadence thing. In proper uniform, of course.
September 6, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Is that Crazy Joe Biden out on the campaign trail? Hard to tell the difference.
September 6, 2011 at 9:22 pm
I bet this turns out to be a shameless publicity stunt by General Mills. Tsk tsk….
September 6, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Hey Mysery Man!….This another one of your defective illegal relatives?
September 6, 2011 at 11:28 pm
THE FUNNY stuff on this thread has put a smile on my face.
September 7, 2011 at 12:02 am
“I’m a Jedi! I’m a Jedi! “
September 7, 2011 at 12:09 am
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The beginning of the ‘Obama Army’.
September 7, 2011 at 2:12 am
Coco Puffs hit a home run with that Ad campaign. The public still has it top of mind, even the sword wielding freaks.
September 7, 2011 at 3:34 am
Another one of Barry Obozo’s czars blowing off some steam.
September 7, 2011 at 4:20 am
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Wow, sound like another one of those (insert name of political opponent here)!!!
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September 7, 2011 at 10:36 am
I’m cuckoo for cocoa leaves! Whoops! I mean “puffs”
September 7, 2011 at 11:25 am
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Hank is a little annoyed he didn’t think of this himself earlier. At least Hank has a Halloween custome idea now.
September 8, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Henry thinks Hank is a genius
September 8, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Hank needs a perscription refill
September 8, 2011 at 2:02 pm
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I think you are Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs yourself!
September 5, 2011 at 9:13 am
Grab your tinfoil hat. THEY are listening to you and watching you right now.
September 5, 2011 at 1:24 pm
So what, if anything, makes any of that FBI, DEA, DOJ stuff relevant to this cuckoo swinging a samurai sword who was rightfully apprehended by local law enforcement?
September 5, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Who cares?
September 6, 2011 at 7:02 am
Yes, I’m sure they made up the samurai sword and plaid pants part.
Go back to reading Mother Jones and lining your apartment with tinfoil.
September 6, 2011 at 8:22 am
i had the same question. :/
September 5, 2011 at 9:25 pm