‘The Goonies’: Man Arrested for Leaving Dead Fish in Film Home and Nearly Died on Stolen Yacht

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but that’s because fiction is forced to stick to possibilities, truth is not”said Mark Twain more than a century ago. Almost 50 years after its premiere, ‘The Goonies’, a Richard Donner film in which a group of friends embark on a treasure-seeking adventure, joins the list of projects that have strange anecdotes behind them. In this case, The mythical home of ‘The Goonies’, a dead fish, a stolen yacht and an epic rescue by the US Coast Guard are combined in the same story.

Coast Guard has shared on Twitter a video in which they perform a complicated rescue operation for a drowning man on a yacht in a heavy storm:

(1/4) #Latest news – Talk about arriving at the right time! While conducting a training mission at the mouth of the Columbia River, 2 Coast Guard aircrew received a #FIRST OF MAY transmitted by the commander of P/C Sandpiper. After alerting observers at the Columbia River sector pic.twitter.com/CtYSgpdPUG

? USCGPacificNorthwest (@USCGPacificNW) February 3, 2023

Once the person was rescued, on the same day, February 3, the police discovered that the robbery of that ship in the port of Astoria (Oregon) had been reported and that the man whose life had been saved was the thief. As if that weren’t enough, police received information two days earlier that a man posted a video on Facebook of him placing a dead fish on the porch of the famous house where several scenes from ‘The Goonies’ were filmed, which is located to the same city where the yacht was stolen. Now is when the storylines come together: Police have confirmed that the man who nearly drowned has been identified as the one who starred in the freak accident at the ‘The Goonies’ home. Now an ordinary house.

The 35-year-old man’s name is Jericho Labonte and he is in custody on charges of robbery, endangering another person, unauthorized use of a vehicle and criminal conduct. Moreover, Not only is Labonte facing these charges, but he was wanted in Canada for harassment, causing harm and breaking the law.

It happens often

It is not the first time that the filming locations of a film or a mythical series are the scene of some strange event. The creator of “Breaking Bad” had to ask fans of the series to do it will stop visiting the Albuquerque home of Walter White (protagonist) to throw pizzas on the roof of the house, something that happens in a scene. Another case was that of the realtor of the ‘American Horror Story’ house, who He was sued for failing to inform the home buyer that fans of the series would come to sneak into the house so often.