Off:Trepan me - off the alien!

[Gary Wingert]

Los Altos, California:

A 42-year-old unemployed carpenter parked his truck on
a Los Altos residential street, pulled out his tools,
then repeatedly pounded a chisel into his head, nearly
killing himself, police said Monday.

The man said he was trying to eliminate a virus
injected into his brain by aliens, but the effort --
considered by police to be a suicide attempt -- left
him with a crushed skull.

"There are buildings, there are bridges, but, come on,
this is someone who was really intent on doing it," said
Detective Sgt. Bob Lacey of the Los Altos Police
Department. "It's just mind-boggling that this occurred."

Police responded after a neighborhood woman reported a
bloodied man was staggering near a Ford pickup truck.
He looked so gruesome that the woman asked him if the
blood was part of a Halloween prank, Lacey said.

The man revealed he recently had been laid off from
work and was being evicted from his apartment, Lacey
said. The man explained in graphic detail how he pulled
into the street near a community center, grabbed two
knives and three chisels, then plopped his head on the
rear bumper before driving the tools into it.

Lacey said officers did not find a suicide note with
the man, who was committed last year for a psychiatric
evaluation by Mountain View police.

A hospital spokeswoman Monday afternoon said the man
was in fair condition. Police did not press charges.

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