A Man Leaves His Four-Year-Old Home Alone So He Can Go Outside and Pretend To Be a Ninja Warrior

You know - I'm all for getting creative and having fun playing kid games with your kids...but when you play those games by yourself and lock your kid in the house, you cross the crazy line.

How is it possible that a woman had a child with this guy?  Blows my mind, man.

--Earlier this month, 28-year-old Ross Hurst of Scottdale, Pennsylvania, was home with his four-year-old son.  The boy was asleep. So Ross decided it would be OK to leave the kid home alone while he . . . went outside and pretended to be a NINJA WARRIOR.

--Again, he's 28.

--Around 1:20 A.M., police spotted Ross, dressed from head-to-toe in black, walking down the street.

--The police say Ross told them he was, quote, "acting out a fantasy of portraying a ninja, a Japanese martial arts expert employed for espionage and assassinations."

--When they asked him why he was playing by himself, he told them, quote, "there are not a lot of people who want to play ninja."

--Then, the police found out he'd left his four-year-old home alone . . . and he was arrested for endangering the welfare of a child.  The child was turned over to his mother.

--Meanwhile, these ninja-related abandonment charges aren't the only ones against Ross.  He was arrested again a few days later because he threatened a witness who was testifying against a friend of his in a meth case.

--The police say Ross called the witness and told him, quote, "You know that skin around your neck?  I hope you cherish it, because it's gonna get cut."

via Scottdale 'ninja' charged with child endangerment - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.