Turn on, break in, drop out.
An upstate New York man thought he heroically saved his neighbor’s dog when he broke into their home to save the pet from a burning house — but the blaze had been nothing more than an LSD-induced hallucination.
Michael Orchard, 43, was charged with burglary after police found him standing in front of what he believed to be a raging inferno with the animal in his arms, state troopers told News 13.
“He believed that the residence was on fire and he was rescuing the dog,” Trooper Mark Cepiel told the local network.
Orchard, of Halfmoon, N.Y., had taken a dose of cough medicine laced with the psychedelic drug earlier that day, police said.
He started pounding on doors in a drug-induced frenzy to alert neighbors about the fire but was fruitless in his efforts to get help for the imaginary emergency.
Orchard then rammed his black BMW sedan through his neighbor’s fence, broke in through the home’s back door and went inside to rescue the family’s large white dog, News 13 reported.
The dog was unharmed in the break-in and no other injuries were reported, according to local reports.
Orchard was charged with second-degree burglary and third-degree criminal mischief and is being held on $15,000 bail.
