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MAN WITH BALL SLASHING FETISH ARRESTED AGAIN

A Duluth man known for having a sexual fetish of slashing exercise balls with a knife allegedly attempted to strike again on Sunday. This time, Christopher Neil Bjerkness, 33, was arrested at Chester Creek Academy, according to Jim Hanson, Duluth police information officer.

Bjerkness reportedly gained entry through a window at about 1:30 p.m. into a room used for physical and occupational therapy. As he entered, an alarm was triggered and staff located him in the room shortly thereafter. Bjerkness was compliant and waited with staff members until police arrived.



Inflatable exercise balls were in the room but none were damaged. There was no other damage except to the lock and window used by Bjerkness. He had no connection to the school and had not been there before. In 2009, Bjerkness was convicted of third-degree burglary after he admitted breaking into the SMDC-Duluth Clinic West building and slashing balls there.

He was also convicted of first-degree criminal damage to property in 2005 after getting into the Sports and Health Center at the University of Minnesota Duluth on several occasions and damaging exercise balls. He also admitted at the time to slicing into exercise balls at the SMDC Center for Personal Fitness, the Polinsky Medical Rehabilitation Center and St. Luke’s hospital, according to criminal complaints. Bjerkness is being held pending charges at the St. Louis County Jail.

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Another example that "Truth is stranger than fiction."

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How odd ... you know my son did that to my exercise ball about 6 years ago ... I had just bought it and was looking for it one day and couldn't find it.  Later was putting out the garbage and found it in the garbage can deflated ... he fessed up to it after a bit