Small Town Misfit

Columbia, SC
An officer was patrolling around Piedmont Avenue on April 25 when he heard someone holler “you are going to school” and then someone say something back to the yeller. The cop walked over to the house where he heard the commotion coming from and found a father and his 17-year-old son arguing. The father told the officer that he is tired of his son sitting around not going to school. The son asserted that he “isn’t doing a damn thing” and if his father puts a hand on him he’s “going to jump him.” The officer told the son to go to his room but instead the teenager started cursing out his father. The officer told him not to do that again. But the boy swore at his father again as he was walking into his room. So the officer arrested him and took him to jail for disorderly conduct.

Found in the Free Times

Atlanta, GA
On Glenwood Place, a 44-year-old woman said her dog urinated in the house that morning. She said her brother asked her to clean it up, then he left. She said her father grabbed a pan and hit her elbow, causing a deep cut. She said she and her father both grabbed objects throughout the house and struck each other. She had scratches on her neck.

The father, age 78, said he was in his room when his daughter started banging on the door. He said when he answered the door, she threw a glass dish at him. He said to defend himself, he grabbed objects and struck his daughter. The father had scratches on his chest, arm and forehead. He also had an egg-shaped bump on his forehead, an officer noted. Both father and daughter were charged with aggravated assault and battery and went to Grady Memorial Hospital.

Found in Creative Loafing

Boone Township, IN
A Hebron-area man who recently bought a car for his son became angry that his son was not grateful for the purchase, so he intentionally crashed his pickup truck into the car, Porter County police said.

The man, Jeffrey Cooper, 49, of 1149 S. County Road 625 West, was wearing a seat belt and was not injured in the crash, which occurred at his home at 6:12 p.m. Monday.

Cooper told police his son was ungrateful for the car, so they argued. Police said Cooper was overcome by “uncontrollable anger” and drove his truck into the rear end of his son’s parked car, pushing it through the lawn. Police reports state Cooper had been drinking but was not ticketed or arrested in connection with the incident on private property.

Police said a criminal recklessness charge would have applied if anyone was hurt.

Police said Cooper was alone in his truck at the time of the crash, and his son’s car was unoccupied. The total damage to Cooper’s 1994 Chevrolet pickup truck, his son’s 1994 Chevrolet Beretta and the lawn is estimated at $1,000 to $2,500.

Cooper did not request any police action.

Found in the NWI Times

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Gresham County, OR
Police arrested David Dennis Franklin, 23, of Gresham for fourth-degree domestic violence assault in the 19500 block of Northeast Halsey Street between 11:30 p.m. Saturday, March 25, and midnight Sunday, March 26, according to a police report.

The victims, a 47-year-old Gresham woman and a 46-year-old Gresham man, are the man’s parents. They told police that they were celebrating the father’s birthday, listening to country music and drinking beer when the intoxicated suspect changed the music to heavy metal.

When the parents confronted their son about the music, he threw things around the apartment, head-butted the mother and pushed her onto the couch. The father came to the mother’s defense, but the son punched him in the face and left.

However, when he returned and knocked on the door, the mother thought it was the police and opened it. Instead, it was the son, who head-butted her again. This time he hit her so hard she flew back against the wall.

The father grabbed the son, who gave his father a black eye and bit his father’s thumb so hard it needed stitches. The father ended up punching the son in the head until he let go.

The suspect told police that his parents assaulted and threatened to kill him. He also told police that his mother head-butted him for no reason. He insisted he’d done nothing wrong.

He said he couldn’t hear out of his left ear, but other than it being slightly bruised and swollen, doctors said there was nothing wrong with it.

Found in the Gresham Outlook

Chadron, NE
3:53 p.m. Caller from 1200 block of Chapin advised she could see a white Suburban chasing a little boy. While on the phone, caller talked to a man in the Suburban who stated he was the father and that the little boy was just mad.

Found in The Chadron Record

Clovis, NM
At 7 a.m. Wednesday, a 67-year-old man called police because he said his son punched him in the face when he wouldn’t get out of bed and go to work with him.

He told police his son had been suspended from school and was lying in bed when he pulled the covers from his son’s face. He said his son jumped out of bed and punched him on the chin. The suspect told police he didn’t hit his father.

Police placed the suspect into custody at the Curry County Juvenile Detention Center.

Found in The Clovis News Journal

A man called at 3:05 p.m. to report that every time he tried to leave his 10300 block residence of Pingree Road near Alta Sierra, his son would ram his car into his vehicle. The son was arrested for assault.

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