Small Town Misfit

Myrtle Beach, SC
On Aug. 18, a Carolina Forest man went to a barbecue, and as he was reaching toward the grill, the property owner’s dog bit his right hand and pulled down. The dog’s owner pulled the dog off the victim and EMS transported the victim to the hospital.

Found in the Sun News

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

Chattanooga, TN
Katrina Kyner of Camden Street came home to find that a small garden shovel from her yard had been used to pry open her front door.

Drawers in a dresser were ransacked along with a small purse. She is missing a coin collection and a bottle of Crown Royal whisky.

Also taken was her deceased aunt’s identification papers.

Two dogs were at the house, and there is an alarm system. But the burglars were undeterred.

Found in the Chattanoogan

Durango, CO
11:58 a.m. A dog dialed 911 from the 300 block of Knolls Circle, east of Farmington Hill.

Found in the Durango Herald

Flathead County, MT
3:16 p.m. Someone shot a dog who had a cat “attached” to its mouth.

Found in the Beacon.

Morrow, OH
A Morrow man pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting his wife and biting off his stepdaughter’s fingertip.

Gary Robinson, 43, pleaded to felonious assault and domestic violence in the Warren County Common Pleas Court. He is to be sentenced in August for the Feb. 20 incident.

After Robinson bit off the tip of his stepdaughter’s finger, it could not be retrieved because it was eaten by the family dog, according to Warren County prosecutors.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

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Atlanta, GA
In midtown, two men got into a fight over a dog. Police responded and tried to sort out the dogfight between two men, who don’t live together. Here are the two men’s stories:

A 42-year-old man said he owns the dog, but he wanted to take the dog away from a 53-year-old man’s home on Penn Avenue. He also said he keeps some clothes there. But, he said, when he arrived at the 53-year-old man’s house, he saw that his clothes were on fire. He said the 53-year-old man rushed toward him and hit him with a shovel, so he left and went to the hospital.

The 53-year-old man’s story: He said he and the 42-year-old are friends, but the 42-year-old doesn’t take care of the dog. He said the 42-year-old uses him for money, and when he doesn’t give him money, he wants the dog back. The 53-year-old said he loves the dog. He was charged with aggravated assault and went to jail.

Found in Creative Loafing

Don’t smoke pot in front of a building under investigation for illegal drug activities. On June 18, while police were conducting an undercover surveillance mission of a Colleton Street apartment building, an officer noticed two people apparently smoking marijuana, toking on a joint in plain view of the public. A third person was hanging out with the bud smokers but not indulging in the Mary Jane.

The cops approached and said they were investigating illegal drug activity. The smokers then called one of the officers by name and said, “We aren’t selling drugs. Now we are smoking weed, we are not going to lie about that but that’s all we are doing.” The police attempted to locate the joint but had no luck and questioned the three about it. Perhaps victims of pot smokers’ memory loss, they told the police they did not recall what happened to it. All three were arrested and charged with loitering for narcotics.

Found in the Free Times

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Avon Lake, OH
An Avon woman may say that it stinks having uninvited visitors literally. A Sandy Lane woman reported Sunday that someone came in her home while she was napping and left a memento behind. A pile of dog feces was found in front of her television, she claimed.

Found in the Sun

Point Reyes, CA
A senior citizen tied up his small dog while at the Farmer’s Market, only to have a big dog attack it. Bystanders broke up the dogfight, but by then the small dog was tangled in its leash. When one of the bystanders tried to untangle the dog, its owner body-slammed her, she told deputies. The woman declined to press charges but said she doesn’t want it to happen again.

Found in the Point Reyes Light

Waynesboro, GA
In Waynesboro, deputies responded to a complaint that a man was screaming in his yard June 15.

A neighbor told police he saw the man put a gas can to his nose and yell, “I’ll obey you devil,” and, “I’m gonna kill somebody.”

Deputies confronted the offender, who told them he was looking for his dog.

Found in the True Citizen

North Palm Beach, FL
About 9:15 a.m., an anonymous caller said there was an unattended baby in a stroller on the north side of the State Road 703 bridge just east of Oakbrook Square and U.S. 1. Officers went to the bridge and spoke to the woman who owns the stroller. Every morning she puts her poodle in the stroller and takes the poodle for a walk. She then takes the poodle out of the stroller, leaves the stroller unattended at the bridge, and takes the poodle for a walk along the waterline.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

St. Peters, MO
A Missouri woman has been arrested for breaking into a dog breeder’s home and beating her repeatedly over the head with a dead Chihuahua.

The woman was upset because the puppy had died, police told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper.

The woman, whose name was being withheld pending charges, said a veterinarian had told her the puppy she’d bought was just four weeks old and needed to be returned to its mother.

It died before she had a chance to do so and the woman went to the breeder’s home in St. Peters, Missouri about 5:45 am Wednesday.

She pushed her way into the house and tried to get to the basement to get another puppy. But after some hair-pulling, the breeder managed to wrestle the woman out of her house.

When she got outside she started hitting the breeder on the head with the dead puppy, drawing the attention of a neighbor who called police.

The woman then went back to her car but waved the dead puppy out of the car’s sunroof while yelling threats at the breeder, who did not seek medical attention, police said.

The weight of the puppy was unknown, but Chihuahuas weight between two and six pounds when fully grown.

The dog owner could face felony burglary and misdemeanor assault charges police said.

Read the whole story in the The St. Louis Post-Disptach

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