To protect your home, you don’t need a gun or knife or even anything usually considered a weapon: Instead you need only a big chunk of firewood, which a North Carolina resident recently used to beat away a would-be thief.
The incident took place Monday evening in Raleigh. According to WTVD, a spokesman from the Raleigh Police Department say 27-year-old Matthew Lawrence Bergstedt kicked in the door of an apartment only to run face first into its firewood-wielding resident, who reportedly smashed Bergstedt in the face with the hunk of wood.
Bergstedt, his face now a mess, fled to a nearby vacant home, where he was arrested. As you can see from the mugshot, the run-in with the firewood left him with a bloodied nose and two big ol’ black eyes.
He’s since been charged with breaking and entering and attempted breaking and entering. The News Observer reports Bergstedt had had some sort of relationship with a woman who also lived in the apartment.
