Small Town Misfit

Rio Grande, NM
12:57 p.m. — A caller said the door to a trailer hauling cows on Highway 84 opened and cows were falling out the back. The call was referred to State Police, and none of the cows appeared to be injured.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Waynesboro, GA
An angry bull didn’t take well to the deputy who tried to steer him off the highway last Saturday.

According to a report filed at the Burke County Sheriff’s Office, the large Angus was seen wandering up and down Griffin Road and taking an occasional turn down the middle of Seven Oaks Road.

The deputy tried to steer him off the road, but the irritated bull rammed the front end of the patrol car, causing a small dent.

After several attempts, the bull finally broke through a fence and headed for the hills.

Charges against the bull’s owner are pending.

Found in the True Citizen

Rio Grande, NM
11:55 a.m. — The Santa Cruz Post Office postmaster said a man was dumping pigeons, both dead and alive, in the dumpster. Police met the suspect at his home and advised him that the Post Office didn’t want any dumping at the dumpster.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Charlotte, NC
A 39-year-old woman said someone broke into her home while she was there and stole her dog. Twenty minutes later, the thief returned and gave the dog back.

Found in Creative Loafing

Erie County, PA
A goose was tapping on windows at the library on Audubon Parkway. The goose left.

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Erie County, PA
A business on North Bryant Woods complained that ducks had nested at the front door and were hissing at clients.

Found in the Bee News

Erie County, PA
Police were called to Paradise Road where a man was on the roadside cutting up a deer with a chainsaw. When police responded they discovered a man working on a fallen tree, not an animal.

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Erie County, PA
Two people in gorilla suits were walking around an Amherst subdivision “smacking passing motorists and yelling obscenities.” They were located while sitting by the side of the road and advised to put the suits away.

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Bozeman, MT
A door was in the northbound lane of South 19th Avenue. “Some type of animal head” was in the southbound lane of North 19th Avenue.

Found in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Brazoria, TX
A day after police found a 41?2-foot long water moccasin in the car of William Eric Johnson, authorities discovered a live, 6-foot alligator lounging in his back seat.

“It was like Crocodile Dundee, Brazoria style,” Brazoria Police Chief Neal Longbotham said.

Johnson, 30, had “several addresses,” including one in Tennessee but was possibly living at a trailer park in the 500 block of West San Bernard Street in Brazoria, Longbotham said. Johnson was charged with burglary of a habitation early Sunday after he was found with items missing from a trailer in the same park, Department of Public Safety Trooper Steven Stanfield said.

Johnson also was cited by a game warden for illegally possessing an alligator.

Johnson is accused of entering the trailer home of his employer’s son and stealing a Wii video game controller and a hair trimmer, among other items.

Longbotham said Johnson asked a neighbor to help him load some of the items into the Buick.

“A TV was too big for him to carry by himself, so he knocked on a door and asked for help getting it into his car,” Longbotham said. “The neighbor saw the man and the alligator and wanted no part of that.”

Johnson apparently drove toward Angleton on Highway 35 with the alligator loose in the back seat, police said. He caught Stanfield’s attention upon making a U-Turn near the intersection of highways 35 and 288.

“He made a second U-Turn and almost hit a car at a stop sign on the feeder road,” Stanfield said. “I pulled him over and, lo and behold, he had a 6-foot alligator in the back seat.

“He said he found it on the road and decided to get out and capture it,” Stanfield said. “It’s mouth wasn’t taped, it wasn’t bound. It was crawling around in the guy’s car. … He said he was taking him to a friend’s house.”

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Kalispell, MT
4:01 p.m. A Columbia Falls man reported that while he was out seeding his lawn his neighbor’s chickens came over began eating the seeds. Deputies talked to the neighbor who said he would contain the chickens.

Found in the Flathead Beacon

Waynesboro, GA
Burke County residents reported property damage from the hooves and snouts of wayward livestock.

Last Thursday, an Eagle Pass Road resident told officers her neighbor’s pigs kept getting loose and coming into her yard. During the latest escape, they destroyed her garden and rooted up her flowers.

The day prior, a Maple Lane man had trouble with his neighbor’s goat. According to the deputy’s report, the man recorded video footage of the goat climbing on top of his vehicle and walking around.

The deputy noted that the man’s car had indeed been scratched and was also littered with goat hair.

Found in the True Citizen