If at first you don't succeed...

Say what you will, but the guy is no quitter. Small Town Misfit spotted the following entries in the Rio Grande Sun police blotter:

10:45 p.m. — A Travelers Lodge caller reported a male suspect wielding a hammer. The suspect, a guest at the motel, told police arriving on the scene that there was someone under his bed. Subject was taken to the hospital to be detoxed.

Then…

2:19 a.m. — The hammer-wielding Travelers Lodge guest from July 6 called to report that there were "people outside messing with him and trying to get into his room." When the officers arrived, the subject was still delusional, according to police dispatch logs. No report was taken.

Then…

3:34 a.m. — A Big Rock Casino caller said the Traveler's Lodge man ran into the casino and said he was being chased by someone with a gun. He was taken back to the hospital.

Then…

6:39 a.m. — The Travelers Lodge man, who had been released from the hospital, called to say that he had trapped the person who has been following him all night in a mattress. Another guest at Travelers Lodge called to tell police that the man was throwing the mattress around in his room. The mattress was blocking the motel room doorway when police arrived. A report was taken for criminal damage to property, and the subject was taken into protective custody.