A Florida man is facing charges of aggravated assault after getting into a heated dispute with his son over a hedgehog.
Homer Stacy II was found walking, pushing a wheelchair with a baseball bat and a machete when police officials from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrived according to CBS News. When officers asked why, he responded they were “for his protection,” according the police report.
Stacy claimed that he had just walked over to tell his son to come and get the hedgehog he left at Stacy’s home.
As deputies were questioning Stacy, he “went back and forth between being cooperative to belligerent,” the report said. Stacy was placed in the back of a deputy’s car, but began screaming when he saw his son, who he threatened to kill, the report said.
Stacy was booked into the county jail on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of simple assault.