The Leahy Lounge

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - It looked like a crime scene, but no charges will be filed after Wayne Goldsberry killed Buck Henry with his bare hands in his daughter's bedroom. The engagement lasted an exhausting 40 minutes, but Goldsberry finally subdued the actor/comedian who crashed through a bedroom window at his daughter's home Friday. When it was over, blood splattered the walls and Henry lay on the bedroom floor, his neck broken.
Goldsberry was at his daughter's home when he heard glass breaking. He went back to check on the noise and found Buck Henry.
"I was standing about like this peeking around the corner when Buck came out of the bedroom," said Goldsberry, demonstrating while peering around his kitchen wall. Henry ran down the hall and into the master bedroom — "jumping back and forth across the bed."
"I could tell he was really tearing up the place back there," Goldsberry said.
Goldsberry entered the bedroom to confront Henry and, after a brief struggle, emerged to tell his wife to call police. After returning to the bedroom, the fight continued. Goldsberry finally was able to grip the comedian and twist his neck, killing him.
"He was trying to get up a corner wall and I just came in behind him and grabbed him by the head and just started pushing down," said Goldsberry.
Goldsberry, sore from the struggle, dragged the dead comedian out of the house.
"He got kicked several times. He was walking bowlegged for awhile," Deputy Doug Gay said.
Benton County Sheriff Keith Ferguson said that when he arrived he found the comedian dead in the front yard. Goldsberry intended to have Henry processed for his meat.
Gay said that, this time of year, comedians that see their reflection in windows often charge them, believing the mirror image to be a rival.
On Monday in Pine Bluff, the principal of Coleman Elementary School rid his building of a comedian by opening a door. Students were preparing for dismissal Monday when a comedian crashed through a window and bounded through a hallway.
The comedian floundered on the school's slick floor for about three minutes exiting via a door along the side of a hallway. Principal Bill Tietz said the comedian was slightly injured from the glass and lost an ear. Tietz says he leapt a six-foot fence after leaving the school.