Polite intruder with bat ruins quiet St. John's evening

A man with a bat interrupted what started as a quiet evening at home for a St. Johns couple Thursday.

"Sure enough, this guy is inside my door here, crouched down with a baseball bat, saying 'Excuse me sir, sorry for intruding in your house, but there are four guys chasing me with baseball bats'," said Murray Bryant.

Itdidnt end there.

"He was crouched down looking out the window, looking for the four guys and it really spooked me out. I said 'Hey man, I'm not well with this. Can you leave please?'"

But that didnt work.

"He said there are four guys chasing me with baseball bats threatening me and he said go up and lock your back door. So I did that. He wasn't threatening me, but he was bizarre," said Bryant.

The intruder left after about ten minutes.

"I went outside. Looked around. There were no four guys with baseball bats. I was shook up all evening," said Bryant

Eventually he called the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary.

"I didn't get much satisfaction. One guy actually was very rude to me," he said.

Bryant kept calling.

"Finally after about the fifth phone call I got in touch with a lady officer. She told me, yes there was an incident. There was a person arrested, with a baseball bat on Newfoundland Drive later on in the evening and he was admitted to the Waterford Hospital, apparently," he said.

Bryant wasn't hurt, but hes still getting over what happened.

"I don't know if he is in the neighbourhood or if this is going to happen again, or if some weird incidences like this are going to happen again. It's shaken me up, you know," he said.

Bryant doesn't believe he was treated very well by the RNC. He said he will try to find out why.