Small Town Misfit

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

Fairview Park, OH
An officer watching traffic on Interstate 480 westbound on April 15 could barely believe his eyes as a car approached him traveling 83 miles per hour in the median berm.

The officer quickly jumped over the median wall, thinking that the car would strike him, but the car managed to avoid him and sped off.

Police chased the car for several miles as it swerved around the road, using medians, berms and even off-roading onto the grass at times.

The pursuing officer pulled alongside the vehicle at one point, and the driver simply waved at him to go away.

The dirver finally lost control of the car in North Ridgeville, where officers boxed him in.

The driver nearly struck a North Ridgeville officer while trying to escape.

He was arrested for felony assault on a police officer in North Ridgeville and will also face felony fleeing charges.

Found in the Sun News

Middleburg Heights, OH
Police observed a driver traveling about 20 mph with his car’s hazard lights on. The tire on the car was flat and smoking.

The man was pulled over. As he got out of the car, he started to walk toward the officer’s cruiser. Police told the man to go back to his car and he stumbled backward into traffic.

The man told police he was just trying to get home.

The man’s breath smelled of alcohol and he had bloodshot and glassy eyes.

The Brook Park man eventually got home but not before making a stop in jail.

Found in the News Sun

Tracy, CA
A caller said she invited a former neighbor to park in front of her home on the 2100 block of Deborah Street, but the guest overstayed his welcome and apparently started living out of his white Chrysler LeBaron in the caller’s driveway. The call was reported at 4:46 p.m. Tuesday.

Found in the Tracy Press

Atlanta, GA
In Buckhead, an officer saw a blue 2007 Jaguar with California tags. A computer check revealed the Jaguar was allegedly stolen in Los Angeles. The officer arrested the driver, a Beverly Hills man, who admitted he had a gun in the glovebox. A 33-year-old woman was in the passenger seat.

The officer ran a check on her — she had no outstanding warrants, so the officer said she was free to go. A few minutes later, the woman tried to remove a black leather computer bag from the Jaguar, the officer noted.

The leather bag contained $37,000 cash. The woman said she knows nothing about the car, cash or the gun — and she was on a date with the man. The man said a friend he knows as “D” let him borrow the Jaguar — and he believes D’s real name was Darrell, but he isn’t sure. He said the $37,000 cash is from a clothing line that he owns. They both went to jail.

Found in Creative Loafing

Atlanta, GA
A 36-year-old woman said she was driving to work one morning, and she stopped at the QuikTrip on Briarcliff Road. She said she was still in her car when a woman walked up and cursed and shouted at her. (She didn’t know this woman.) She said the woman grabbed her arm and tried to pull her out of her car. Then, she said, the woman jumped on the hood of her car. The woman was last seen driving away in a red Jeep. The 36-year-old woman wrote down the license plate number on the red Jeep. Police checked, but that tag number isn’t on file. The 36-year-old said she wasn’t hurt and her car wasn’t damaged.

Found in Creative Loafing

Batavia, OH
A bridesmaid on her way to her sister’s wedding got sidetracked Sunday to the Clermont County jail after she was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs while her two young children were in the backseat, jail officials said.

Jennifer Wheeler, 28, is held this morning at the jail without bond until she appears at 10 a.m. before Clermont County Municipal Court Judge Gregory Chapman, court records show.

She arrived at the jail about 4:20 p.m. Sunday in a yellow bridesmaid dress, jail officials said this morning.

Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Bob Rose charged her with driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol on Bauer Road in Batavia, child endangering and drug possession, records show. She also is accused of operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license and operating a vehicle without reasonable control.

Then, she was charged with drug possession and bringing illegal items onto jail grounds after guards found Xanax pills on her, officials said.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

Thanks Luann!

Waynesboro, GA
According to a report filed at the Waynesboro Police Department, 38-year-old Angela Etterle was pulled over on East Seventh Street when an officer saw her weaving.

She was asked to take the breathalyzer several times but refused. The questioning ended when she told the female officer, “I’d rather bl** you than blow into that machine.”

Etterle was arrested for DUI (second offense) and driving with a suspended or revoked license.

Found in the True Citizen

Warwick, RI
Warwick police said a Tidewater Drive man was motoring on West Shore Road around 12:45 p.m. Sunday when a bite of a candy bar became lodged in his throat and choked him long enough for him to momentarily black out. The driver lost control of his vehicle and slammed into a utility pole, snapping it off. The crash dislodged the piece of candy from the man’s throat but the vehicle went up onto a lawn and hit a house, tearing down the wires to the house and the neighborhood.

The house had only minor damage but according to National Grid about 2,500 customers were without power for 40 minutes and another 59 in the immediate vicinity didn’t have their electricity restored for about four hours. The woman passenger and the driver had trivial injuries but Warwick Rescue convinced the man to got to the hospital for a closer examination of his throat.

Found on Warwick Online

Thanks Barbara!