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Hall & Oates fan hallucinates vampires

by Jesse Locke

The strangest, funniest, and ultimately pretty sad music-related crime story of the day comes from a Florida man arrested for dancing on the roof of a police vehicle.

As Gawker reported, a surveillance video has been released of 44-year-old Christian Radecki (pictured below) pulling into the driveway of Sergeant Frederic Janke with a local soft-rock radio station on blast. After climbing on the roof of the officer’s SUV, Radecki proceeded to boogie down, twerk, and waggle his arms like an audience member at a Phish concert to the soundtrack of Hall & Oates’ “Rich Girl” and Supertramp’s “Goodbye Stranger.” As the station switched to Grease’s Olivia Newton-John/John Travolta duet “You’re The One That I Want”, Radecki ripped off the vehicle’s windshield wipers, then stole an American flag from a neighbour before his inevitable arrest.

The story’s original post from The Smoking Gun shared Radecki’s bizarre testimony explaining his behaviour:

After being taken into custody, he explained that he went to Janke’s residence because “when he opened his front door, a woman with fangs was threatening him, and that a human sacrifice was about to occur involving vampires.” Investigators added that Radecki claimed that he “made the conscious decision to get the Sheriff of Nottingham to help him stop the slaughter of small children.”

The clearly troubled soul was slapped with a misdemeanour for disturbing the peace and property damage charges before being released on $2,250 bail. Sadly, Radecki was arrested again a few weeks later for petty larceny and currently awaits trial in Lee County Jail. Hopefully someone can bring him a copy of Abandoned Luncheonette.