Bathtime Bandit.
A Tennessee couple said they were out to dinner when a squeaky clean man kicked in the door of their home and caught the intruder while they were using their shower.
The Nardi couple were enjoying a date night around 7pm last Saturday when they received an alert that there was movement inside the house. According to WIS10.
At first, they thought it was their dog triggering a sensor and thought nothing of it.
But what they saw next startled them and they panicked and called 911.
The couple watched as the man kicked in the front door and began rummaging through the house as if he were home.
To make matters worse, the stranger took a shower and took a bath.
“Our fur baby is there. There’s a man we don’t know in our house. We just need to go home,” Kerrigan Nardi told the magazine.
The southeast Nashville couple immediately called police.
When police arrived just minutes later, they found the man hanging out in the couple’s living room wearing only a towel.
“He was sitting on our couch, naked,” Nardi explained.
“You don’t just violate people like that. It doesn’t matter what kind of mental illness you’re in. It doesn’t matter what kind of drugs you’re on. You don’t just violate someone’s house like that. and will not infringe in that way.”
The suspect, Samuel Smith, was quickly arrested by police.
Smith was charged with aggravated trespass and possession of methamphetamine, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by police. Exit.
Nardis explained that cleaning up after the horrific incident was difficult.
“When he was taking a shower at my house, he left some excrement behind. Well, I think he decided it would make a nice present for the homeowner,” Nardi said. told the magazine.
The couple explained that the room needed to be disinfected, towels used by the man should be thrown away and the shower should be bleached.
Even though the sanitary hijacker was taken into custody, they are still shaken by how easily he broke into their homes.
The couple has since installed a deadbolt lock and barricaded their front door in case they ever leave, the newspaper said.
They said they also plan to buy another camera and are advising neighbors to do the same.
“I think people just need to get their cameras out and be careful, because you never know,” Nardi said.
