Thursday, February 11, 2010

Man takes baseball bat to TVs in Wal-Mart

A Georgia man did more than yell at a TV -- he walked into a Wal-Mart Wednesday, grabbed a baseball bat and belted 29 flat-screen sets, police allege.

Police were trying to figure out why he did it, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Just after noon, 23-year-old Lawrenceville resident Westley Strellis strode into the Liburn Wal-Mart on Lawrenceville Highway. He allegedly grabbed a metal baseball bat out of the sporting goods department, walked to the electronics section and started smashing the flat-screen televisions on display, doing more than $22,000 worth of damage, police say.

Strellis was arrested, taken to the Gwinnett County jail and charged with 29 counts of second-degree criminal damage to property, the Journal-Constitution said.

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