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Caleb Grotberg, 32.
Portland, Ore. police arrested a man early Monday morning after his girlfriend reported that he had choked her with his dreadlocks.
Officers responded to the domestic violence call around 2:30 a.m. at the woman’s Southeast Portland home.
The woman told police that her boyfriend, Caleb Grotberg, 32, had brown dreadlocked hair down the middle of his back. Officers caught up with him after canvassing the neighborhood, according to a police report.
Grotberg was booked into Multnomah County Jail on suspicion of kidnapping in the second degree and strangulation, among other domestic violence felony crimes. He was no longer listed on the jail roster on Tuesday afternoon.
The woman was taken to a Portland hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
“I have never heard of anybody using dreadlocks as a weapon,” said Portland Police Sgt. Pete Simpson. “Not to make light of a domestic violence situation, because it was terrifying, but this is a very Portland-centric type of situation.”
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See?? If a nutcase can't get a gun to go on a rampage, he can simple grow his hair long, get it dreadlocked, then go on a strangling rampage. Assault rifles for everyone!!! Can't have too many guns...
Lady, what are you doing hanging out with a douche like this anyway?
leroy - Way to try to turn a story that has nothing to do with guns into a discussion about guns. You people are way too obsessed with the gun / anti-gun crap.
This is the future. Look at the face of the liberal Taliban.
An Obama supporter.
Wonder when the last time ole Caleb took a bath?
Obviously the product of time outs and not a good old fashioned spanking as a young child.
I bet cha the cops had to take the cruiser into a auto spa just to get the smell of funk and pachouli oil out of it.
Look at his picture closely and what do you see ????
Put some brown shoe polish on his face and you have the face of BIG FOOT !!!!! Who would have guessed that big foot was alive , well and living among us.
Is that Jesus casting revelations?
Take this aszhole out, shave him bald, then beat the crap out of him with rubber bats! Maybe that'll wake him up.
Leroy is SO right on the mark....dangerous people will kill or hurt by ANY means...this article is about ASSAULT....not about dreadlocks....
Truly dreadful.
Time to ban dreadlocks.
Absolutely Steve, dreadlocks are every bit as deadly as semi-automatic assault rifles.
Stand back...my dreads have been registered as lethal weapons...death by dreadlocks! What a hairy situation that would be...makes your hair stand on end just thinking about it...they should lock him away....i dread to think about what could have happened!
to paraphrase Bob Marley
" I dreadlock choked the Sheriff but I did not dreadlock choke my girlfriend" and his plea in court is the Shaggy Defense, "...it wasn't me..."
Hey Jack,
Just goes to put an exclamation point on my comment last week, weird ain't new, but it is making a comback in a BIG way.
Do these people do this crap to get themselves on TV for 15 minutes? Sure seems like people are willing to kill and/or die to get their name out there anymore.
Hey Tracy
Seems this bozo's picture shows him to be shy a sandwich or two for a full picnic. However, anything, as we have all pointed out prior, can be used as a weapon with just a little ingenuity! But yeah, I think that is a weird way to gain attention!
It's a strange, strange world we live in nowadays.
'tis dread mon.....truly dread....
Looks like a typical Portlandian
Looking at this guy I have to wonder how foul his girlfriend looked.
If Obama had a son with Pelosi he would look like this guy.
I wonder what it is like going years without washing your hair.
What a Hairy ordeal !
This long hair choked one girl.....
All of the ones that killed dozens with military hardware look like Jared Lee Loughner....
Seems overall populace safety is on the side of the long hairs......
You really gotta watch out for the baldies and buzz cuts though....them folks are dangerous...
And footlball players with braided hair sticking out of their helmet look like " Predator"
We HAVE to ban dreadlocks before some other nut case reads this and tries to copy it. Ban ALL forms of dreadlocks NOW!!!
I think the real solution is to have a background check/waiting period for anyone wishing to grow dreadlocks and to keep them off the heads of the mentally ill.
Sad, because behind all that filth and mess, I think I see a good looking man. Too bad he took the wrong road in life.
Dreadful...
You can visit him in jail alicia.
She probably passed out from the stentch of the patchouli long before the loss of oxygen.
I know dredlocks smell bad, but enough to choke someone? Sheesh, give that guy some shampoo!
Thats what happens when they run out of medical marijuana at the dispensary
Too bad she wasn't carrying a gun.
I wonder how many people clicked on the story intent on trashing this guy and backed off when they saw he was white.
Yeah, that's clearly what happened.
/sarcasm
Don't care what color he (or his hair) is, he needs a court ordered buzzcut. And shave. Put him on parole and require trims to keep it short.
Just you Crappy...
White guys with dreads are annoying and apparently dangerous...
Very innovative weapon.
I suppose one of you gun nut nimrods will make the arguement that he could have killed 20 children and 6 adults in about 30 seconds with his hair. New slogan for the National Association of Barbers, "people kill people, hair doesn't kill people"
We like to call them wookies, because they have a similar look to Chubaca(sp). That said, you can wash your hair with dreads, it is not unwashed hair...just not brushed. :Like what happens to a long haired dog if you don't brush their coat.
He IS a long-haired dog.
Only in Portland. *sigh*
Remember - Guns don't wound people, Dreadlocks wound people.
He would be so much more attractive without those dreadlocks in his hair. And apparently it would be safer, too!
It goes to show you.If you are not Jamaican,a black jamaican,from jamaica,and you have dreadlocks,you're a little bitch
What does being Jamaican have to do with anything? If you can detangle your hair by running your fingers through it you should not have dreadlocks plain and simple. People with curly hair can wash their hair when its in dreadlocks because the tangles dont come out. The curlier your hair is (eg black hair) the harder it is for the natural oils from you scalp to distribute themselves throughout the hair. This is why people with straight/ silky curly hair should not have dreads, because they cant wash their hair and it ends up being oily and gross.
she didn't need a gun.
SHE NEEDED A PAIR OF SCISSORS!!!