Small Town Misfit

Tracy, CA
9:23 a.m.: A caller reported someone drove into the caller’s house, caved in a wall, then drove off from the 2600 block of Balboa Avenue. The car may have had a broken axle, the caller said.

Found in the Tracy Press

Tracy, CA
3:44 a.m.: A caller from a town home on the 300 block of Mt. Oso Avenue reported that a man lit the caller’s roommate’s car on fire. A tow truck took away a Ford Explorer.

Found in the Tracy Press

Goleta Valley, CA
A woman who left $12,000 in cash unattended in her car filed a report of grand theft after the money went missing a few weeks ago. The woman, 37, told authorities the money was last seen in an envelope under her car seat at a Fairview Avenue carwash. The woman admitted leaving the money unattended, and out of view, while the car was being cleaned.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Amhurst, NY
Police responded to an accident at Broadway and Central. As officers spoke to the man, they noticed signs of intoxication and the odor of alcohol. The man admitted to having beer, but he couldn’t remember how many. Then he said, “I’ll be completely honest with you. I’m smashed.”

Found in the Bee News

Grass Valley, CA
2:48 a.m - A caller from Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital reported a vehicle pulled up to the emergency room with an intoxicated person in the rear seat. The driver apparently was attempting to drop the person off when he began kicking the windows out of the vehicle. The driver sped off with the intoxicated man and responding officers were unable to locate the vehicle.

Found in the Union

Cincinnati, OH
A Cincinnati man was arrested for stabbing another man over a parking space at Newport on the Levee. Jerry Lin, 20, of Cincinnati, is charged with felony assault.

David Clark, 39, also of Cincinnati, told police he was trying to back into a parking space in the Levee parking garage about 8 p.m. May 23, when another vehicle pulled up on his bumper and refused to back up. Clark got his car into the spot and the other driver approached him as he got out of his car.

Clark told police Lin attacked him, according to the arrest report. When family members noticed Clark’s back was bleeding heavily, Lin got in his car and fled the scene.

Clark was treated at University Hospital for two stab wounds to his back. Police located Lin’s vehicle in the Levee parking garage. Lin returned to the vehicle while the officers were there.

The knife was recovered in his pants pocket.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

Thanks Luann!

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
4:12 p.m. — A caller said the driver of a little red truck traveling on Industrial Park Road was unaware that his cargo was on fire. The call was transferred to the Española Fire Department.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Kalispell, MT
2:50 p.m. A motorcyclist freaked out after a man driving a truck cut him off on Main Street. The pair drove side by side and yelled at each other for a short distance. Thee angry men then pulled over into a parking lot of a business south of Kalispell to fight. The motorcyclist smashed the back window of the man’s pickup with his helmet. When a deputy arrived both men had calmed down and admitted to their stupidity. The biker offered to pay for the smashed window.

Found in the Flathead Beacon

Goleta Valley, CA
After rear-ending another car in the drive-thru at a Calle Real hamburger spot, a man got out of his car to urinate in a nearby bush. Deputies met with the driver at 7:45 p.m. after receiving a call about the belligerent subject.

When asked how much he’d had to drink, the 61-year-old driver estimated, “Three beers and a couple of whiskeys, at least.”
He was jailed for public intoxication.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Mukilteo, WA
Officers responded for a vehicle driving on the running track. The

officers located the vehicle leaving the school. The officers saw no

obvious damage to the track (but it was dark and covered in snow). The

driver was cited for violating his intermediate license restrictions

and his father came and picked him up.

Found in the Mukilteo Beacon

West Seneca, PA
A West Seneca man reported someone had put ketchup and syrup all over the passenger side of his vehicle.

Found in the Bee News