# homeowner hogties would-be robber, calls cops and goes to work. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 4, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634 "2013-07-04T14:28:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/1 "2013-07-04T14:28:14Z")
All part of the morning routine. Cup of coffee, breakfast, get the kids ready and hog tie a burglar. šŸ˜› One less job for hubby on the honey do list. šŸ˜‰ Glad this is something we can chuckle about. No one got hurt and the bad guy is in jail. The pics of this dudeā€™s face all tied up are hilarious. > **[The moment homeowner hogties would-be robber then left him outside for police...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2355431/Homeowner-hogties-robber-leaves-outside-cops-goes-work.html)** > > A Tulsa, Oklahoma homeowner tackled an intruder, hogtied him, and left him outside on his front lawn, then left for work before the police arrived. > [@](#): > > The homeownerā€™s wife said she and her husband heard a noise in the garage around 6am. > > ā€˜I said, ā€œA raccoon didnā€™t do that.ā€ And he was just like, ā€œOh God,ā€ā€™ Denay Houston told NewsOn6. Houstonā€™s husband went to the door. > > ā€˜And then he waited for him to come out and then he bum-rushed him,ā€™ she said. > > The homowner pinned the intruder to the ground and expertly hogtied him. Then, safe in the knowledge the criminal was secured, he left his wife to watch over him until the police arrived and went to work. > > The intruder turned out to be Robert Cole, a 31-year-old who according to police, was high on drugs and thought he was in Jenks. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/2 "2013-07-04T14:29:29Z")
I bet the homeowner gets sued, and loses his home. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/3 "2013-07-04T14:57:54Z")
I guess you donā€™t always have to shoot the burglar. Great story. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/4 "2013-07-04T15:05:55Z")
What does ā€œthought he was in Jenksā€ mean? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/5 "2013-07-04T15:22:04Z")
Jenks Oklahoma. The robber was actually in Tulsa. I canā€™t directly link. But scroll through the video list (thereā€™s 3 videos for this story) and theres one with the Tulsa police chief. He describes how disoriented this dude was. Drugs do that. [http://www.newson6.com/story/22751588/tulsa-homeowner-ties-up-man-attempting-to-break-into-his-home](http://www.newson6.com/story/22751588/tulsa-homeowner-ties-up-man-attempting-to-break-into-his-home) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/6 "2013-07-04T15:31:13Z")
I guess the guy hadnā€™t wandered too far from home. Jenks is a suburb outside Tulsa. Iā€™ve visited Tulsa a few times. Itā€™s a nice city. I have some close friends there. > [@](#): > > Jenks is a city in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, and a suburb of Tulsa ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/7 "2013-07-04T16:00:07Z")
I wonder why the homeowner is ā€œknown only as Willie.ā€ Maybe heā€™s some kind of superhero, going around semi-anonymously righting wrongs? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/8 "2013-07-04T16:04:12Z")
Whoever he is, I have a new hero. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/9 "2013-07-04T16:52:02Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > I bet the homeowner gets sued, and loses his home. Yeah. Sheesh, kids these days, I wish theyā€™d get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/10 "2013-07-04T17:48:48Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > I bet the homeowner gets sued, and loses his home. Why? The intruder was not left unattended. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/11 "2013-07-04T17:53:57Z")
A related urban legend that always makes me smile: [Response Time | Snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/crime/safety/response.asp) ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/12 "2013-07-05T12:05:37Z")
From the same website [Superman catches shoplifter](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2355735/Security-guard-Luke-Junior-dressed-Superman-catches-shoplifter.html) ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/13 "2013-07-05T16:29:52Z")
The kicker is the last line, where he is being held on a $32,079 bail. Why so specific a number? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/14 "2013-07-05T16:33:05Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Why? The intruder was not left unattended. Thereā€™s always an excuse to sue someone in Amerika. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/15 "2013-07-05T16:39:28Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#): > > I wonder why the homeowner is ā€œknown only as Willie.ā€ Probably fears repercussions from all the people outraged that he didnā€™t shoot the guy. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeowner-hogties-would-be-robber-calls-cops-and-goes-to-work/662634/16 "2013-07-05T20:10:42Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > The kicker is the last line, where he is being held on a $32,079 bail. Why so specific a number? Donā€™t know. Most bails that Iā€™ve ever seen are round numbers. Maybe thereā€™s some odd court cost tacked on.