Florida dad scares off alleged peeping Tom with a baseball bat caught on digital camera: 'I bought one thing for you'

One father in Flagler County, Florida can relaxation somewhat simpler after chasing off an alleged prowler from his teen daughter’s window with a baseball bat.

The altercation from final Friday was caught on a neighbor’s surveillance digital camera. It was the second time in two days the suspected peeping Tom was seen on the household’s property.

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“He was up at my daughter’s window,” the daddy instructed FOX 35 Orlando. “I stated a pair alternative phrases, and when he turned towards me, I swung the bat.” 

“It didn’t appear to section him, he was a reasonably large dude, so I used to be going to go for his head, and after I did, he began to run,” he added.

Surveillance footage exhibits the vigilante dad chasing the suspected prowler with a Louisville slugger down Pine Hill Lane on Friday whereas crying out to neighbors for assist.

“Name the cops… name the cops! Someone name the cops,” shouted the Florida dad. “The place you going, boy? Come right here… come right here… I bought one thing for you.”

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The household then “instantly known as” the Flagler County Sheriff, in accordance with a press launch. 

The suspect, Damon Arthur Smith, was promptly arrested after admitting to “being on the sufferer’s property,” per the discharge. Smith instructed authorities that he will get a “thrill” from strolling round individuals’s houses.

Upon arrest, Smith was noticed carrying a Michael Myers tee-shirt that had the phrase “EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO ONE GOOD SCARE” on it.

29-year-old Damon Smith is in custody after allegedly prowling on a 14-year-old lady’s window. (Flagler County Sheriff’s Workplace)

“I don’t know what his intentions are… if it was one thing that was going to escalate over time, and that [Michael Myers] was his function mannequin or what, however we’d have gotten him simply in time,” the dad stated to FOX 35.

“This pervert stated he will get pleasure from peeping into different individuals’s home windows however this time he got here throughout a father defending his daughter,” stated Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly in a launch. “Fortunately deputies tracked this pervert down and bought him checked into the Inexperienced Roof Inn.”

Damon Arthur Smith, 29, was charged with loitering or prowling, voyeurism – first offense, and aggravated stalking of an individual below 16.

Smith first had a run-in with the regulation at 18, when he made a bomb risk at Flagler Palm Coast Excessive Faculty.

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Smith is presently in custody at Sheriff Perry Corridor Inmate Detention Facility and is being held on an $86,000 bond.