Check on Condo Finds Bare Intruder Enjoying Eats, Drinks and Video

What do you say to a naked man--especially if he’s stretched out on a couch in your mother’s condominium while she’s away on vacation?

Maybe something like: “Excuse me while I call 911.”

That’s exactly what one woman did when she walked into her mother’s Escondido home Wednesday evening only to find a transient in the buff, fresh from a shower and munching on goodies from the kitchen while watching a movie on television.

She screamed. He said, “Hey, I don’t want any trouble.”

“But I knew this was nobody my mother knows, and I got angry,” Tami Foley recounted Friday. So she called police. They asked for a description.

“And I said, ‘Why don’t we wait until he gets dressed.’ ”

He pulled on brown pants. “Brown pants,” she reported to the dispatcher.

He slipped on a white T-shirt. “White T-shirt,” she reported to the dispatcher.

He picked up some white tennis shoes. “White tennis shoes,” she said.

The man picked up a sleeping bag--and, for the first time, Foley noticed he had a hatchet. She thought about running but he calmly walked out the door.

Minutes later, police found the man, later identified as 48-year-old Glen Scofield, in the condominium complex and arrested him on suspicion of burglary, Sgt. Tom Causey said.

During Scofield’s stay of less than a day in the condo, he allegedly drained part of a bottle of Seagram’s whiskey, grazed through several bags of chips and slurped down several cans of split-pea and vegetable soup.

He also warmed up some leftover scalloped potatoes, picked through a couple of cans of tuna, consumed a dozen eggs and was, when caught, defrosting some frozen ground turkey.

In the bathroom, a damp towel had carefully been placed in the hamper.

As he enjoyed the bounty of the condo’s cupboards, Scofield’s movie selection seemed all the more appropriate, the story of the fellow who stole from the rich to help the poor:

“Robin Hood.”