The area of 72nd Avenue south in Roy, Washington, where George Jacobson broke into homes (Picture: Google Maps)

The townsfolk of Roy in Washington have been mildly terrorised by a 23-year-old man on a week-long acid trip.

Between September 26 and October 3, George Jacobson broke into homes and made confused and often unintelligible demands – babbling about being on a ‘spiritual journey’.

According to a detailed police report, Jacobson first appeared on a property on 72nd Avenue South in Roy, on September 26.

A man told police he found Jacobson in a barn on the property, holding a single black boot.


Jacobson ran off when confronted and fled to a neighbouring property, where he entered a home and was found by the female owner. He kept repeating the phrase ‘bad neighbour’ but was not making much more sense.



When the woman tried to calm the man and ask if there was anything he wanted, he demanded that she make him a sandwich. While eating he told her about his journey, showing her the boot and saying it contained jewels.

The woman’s husband came home and the pair convinced Jacobson to get in their car, and they drove him out to 72nd Avenue and dropped him off.

Jacobson forced one of his victims to drive him 13 miles between Roy and Rainier

Police claim Jacobson’s annoying antics became a major problem when the couple realised he had ransacked their home and stolen a handgun.

A search of the area, which involved tracking dogs, failed to locate him and he remained at large until October 3, when a woman found him standing in her home holding her purse and keys.

Once again he managed to evade police, fleeing in the woman’s car and crashing it a few miles away.

Jacobson went to another home and pulled a gun on the owner, demanding that he be driven to neighbouring Rainier 13 miles away.

Police say Jacobson made the driver take a detour through a McDonald’s Drive-Thru so he could by a soft drink.

Doses of LSD in the form of stamps depicting the ‘acid trip’ bicycle ride of Dr Albert Hofmann, who accidentally discovered the drug in 1943 (Picture: AFP/Getty)

When he was finally arrested in Rainier, officers noted that he was clearly high on something.

He told them later that he could not remember anything from the week – except stealing a car and that a ‘nice man’ had taken him to McDonald’s.

He told officers that his irregular behaviour was because of a ‘bad trip’, and that he ‘prefers meth’.

Jacobson is charged with multiple crimes – including robbery, kidnapping, burglary, and theft of a firearm. He is being held in Pierce County Jail on a bond of $1 million, and will face court this week.