Asked Why He Was In Jail, Christopher Meusburger Replied "Because I'm An Idiot"

[Dakota Valkyrie]

She lent her St. Paul neighbor a book, and how did he repay her? He thrust a Samurai sword inches from her face, alleges a criminal complaint filed Tuesday, July 31.

Christopher James Meusburger, 29, was charged with terroristic threats.
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Police were called to an apartment building in the 1600 block of Sherburne Avenue on Monday at 8:10 p.m. A 62-year-old woman said she lent Meusburger a book, then saw it on the floor outside her door. (The reports didn't list the book's title.)

The woman asked Meusburger why he didn't just throw the book away instead of throwing it on the floor. She told police this question "enraged" Meusburger and he confronted her, his nose touching hers.

"He told her, 'If you weren't so weak I would seriously hurt you,' " the complaint said. "He pushed her back a few steps with his chest puffed up like he was getting ready to fight her."

She could tell he was intoxicated and told him she would call police if he continued to push her. Meusburger sprinted inside his apartment and came out with a long sword in his hand.

"He was in a fighting stance like he was ready to sword-fight with somebody," the complaint said. "She said she has never been that scared for her life before."

After waving the sword, Meusburger went back in his apartment, and she called police.

Officers found the man in his apartment. He told police he'd consumed at least a 12-pack of beer. His blood-alcohol concentration was 0.185.
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At the Ramsey County jail, an investigator asked Meusburger why he was in jail. "Because I'm an idiot," he said, according to the complaint.

Meusburger said his neighbor across the hall was yelling at him. He said he unsheathed the sword but never left his apartment with it. He stood in his apartment with the door open and shook the sword, he said.

"He said it was not a threat but then he said, 'But I unsheathed it. Hard to think of it as not a threat," the complaint said.

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/...threat-charges

[LoKi4778]

I'd be scared, too, if Rocky Dennis came at me waving a sword. At least he knows he's an idiot...

[LeaveMeBe]

Wait, whoa, hang on. The neighbor loaned him a book and then she found it on the floor outside her door, so she asked him why he didn't just throw it away instead of putting it on the floor? WTH? Am I missing something here? Uhhhh, because he borrowed it from you, crazy lady! People don't normally throw away things they borrow from other people, they return it. I can just imagine how all this went down. In his drunken stupor, he finds the book and decides to return it. She yells her accusation at him and in his sodden and sloppy thinking he assumes it's a threat and a challenge (I've politely said "excuse me" to a drunk before and it almost started a fight) and decides to posture with his sword to minimize the threat. Bitch should have just thanked him for returning the book and minded her own business when a fella's gettin' his drank on. "Because I'm an idiot." At least he's honest.

[Obsolete]

I think she was being sarcastic by implying that putting the book on the floor was so disrespectful that he may as well have thrown it away.

I get it, my mom and daughter are both nazi's when it comes to their books.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

I get it, my mom and daughter are both nazi's when it comes to their books.

I have a few books that I'm a Nazi about. I wouldn't be lending them to anyone - ever. Any book I lend out, I don't intend to get back. If a book was so important I didn't want to see it on the floor, I certainly wouldn't be giving it to the scraggly haired drunken neighbor.