There is nothing creepier than finding someone staring at you through a window.
One Florida man discovered that this was a bad idea.
And a mad Florida dad gave a Peeping Tom the worst surprise of his life.
Florida dad solves neighborhood problem in brutal fashion
A neighborhood in Flagler County, Florida was dealing with a “Peeping Tom” problem for almost a year.
Multiple police reports had been filed against the creeper, but nothing had been done against him.
A Florida dad and his wife were sitting in their backyard when the woman spotted the “Peeping Tom” sneaking around on their neighbor’s property.
The wife yelled at the creeper which sent him scurrying away.
“[My wife] sees a silhouette of a guy in the backyard in the pouring rain, just staring at me,” the dad said. “I don’t know how long he was there, but I was totally oblivious to it. She screamed and scared him off.”
This dad had enough of his neighborhood being terrorized after almost a year.
He decided that he was going to take matters into his own hands.
The dad got a Louisville Slugger baseball bat and waited in case the “Peeping Tom” returned on his back porch.
“I sat in the chair, I grabbed a beer and a baseball bat,” the dad told Fox 35. “I didn’t think he would show up because who has the nerve to show up at the exact same time that the cops were called to a place the next night?”
And sure enough, the creeper did.
The man was discovered peering through the window of the dad’s 14-year-old daughter.
But the dad got the surprise on him and hit him between the shoulder blades with the baseball bat.
“Where you going, boy? Come here … Come here … I got something for you,” the dad shouted as he chased the man down the street with the baseball bat.
Dad saves the day with a baseball bat
The dad called the Flager County Sheriff’s Office who arrested 29-year-old Damon Smith.
Smith was arrested wearing a t-shirt with Michael Myers, the villain in the horror movie franchise Halloween.
“Everyone is entitled to one good scare,” read the man’s t-shirt.
Smith was booked on charges of aggravated stalking, voyeurism, and prowling.
“I don’t know what his intentions are… if it was something that was going to escalate over time, and that [Michael Myers] was his role model or what, but we might have got him just in time,” the dad said.
Smith had previously been arrested for making a bomb threat against Flager County High School.
He told police after his arrest that he did it for the thrill.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly applauded the dad for taking swift action.
“It’s awesome; I kinda want to put on a cape and go find another bad guy,” Staly joked.
Damon Smith learned a painful lesson that being a creep is a bad idea in the Sunshine State.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
