Small Town Misfit

Kittitias County, WA
Two boys were throwing rocks at City Hall.

Found in the Daily Record

Middleberg Heights, OH
An Islander Apartment employee was picking up trash in the parking lot when he picked up a homemade pop bottle bomb.

He saw the bottle fizz, dropped it and ran. Though the bottle exploded, the man wasn’t harmed. He was told to contact the department if it happened again. What was left of the bottle was examined for evidence.

Found in the News Sun

Newport, KY
The Ferrari.

Insanely fast. Absurdly expensive. And - in the path of a 10-year-old boy - utterly defenseless.

Just ask Arthur James Ibold.

The Cincinnati man’s million-dollar-plus, mint-condition 1971 Ferrari, with all its vaunted Italian-made power, proved virtually powerless against the destructive force of a fourth-grader in Newport Monday, police said.

The problem began about 5:15 p.m. when the boy - whose mother asked that he remain anonymous - was doing what 10-year-olds do best: running mindlessly through the neighborhood.

To be fair, this particular boy had a pretty good reason to run. He was being chased by another boy, who on that afternoon happened to be armed with a very dirty diaper he had just “found.” In other words, it was a life-and-death pursuit.

The 10-year-old might have gotten away had it not been for that bright orange Ferrari, parked at the corner of East Ninth and Washington streets. That, according to the police report, stopped the youngster when he apparently ran headlong into the machine.

The boy “slid across the hood … causing the hood to scratch and crease. The crease was approximately 18 inches in length,” wrote Newport Police Officer Todd Suszek

“The vehicle is a classic vehicle that is in excellent to mint condition. The vehicle is all original. Listed suspect admitted to this officer that he did it.”

The officer’s words suggest that even the objective eyes of the law got a little misty at the sight of the pricey Ferrari’s new flaw. Whether Ibold was shedding any tears at this point is unclear - he did not return calls for comment.

But the boy’s mom said she was soon crying, as was her son, even before he learned that he had been charged with first-degree criminal mischief Wednesday.

The boy’s mother, who is currently unemployed, is stumped as to how she will pay for the damage, no matter how small. She said she has not heard anything further from Ibold or the police.

Be sure to read the whole story in the Kentucky Post

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Chico, CA
4:40 p.m. Welfare check reported on the 500 block of Nord Avenue. “Reporting party’s mom has painted herself and thinks the reporting party is not her son, but a stranger in a skin suit.”

Found in the Orion

Bozeman, MT
A woman on College Street put her 3-year-old to bed and then went to bed herself. The boy later took his mother’s purse, used the keys in it to start her car and was attempting to put it in gear when police found him. He was returned to his sleeping mother.

Found in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Chico, CA
Information to citizen reported on the 600 block of W. Sacramento Avenue. “Reporting party has problem with residence on corner with Elmo doll on chimney that appears to be smoking drugs. Reporting party drives by residence with her kids every day and has called before about same.”

Found in the Orion

Parma Heights, OH
A North Church Drive woman got a leg up on a pair of juvenile thieves April 24 after the two girls made off with an unusual lawn decoration from the victim’s home.

According to police reports, the girls stole a fake leg that the woman had on display in her yard. The victim, who has two perfectly good working legs of her own, chased the suspects and eventually caught one of them on Brandywine Road.

The woman’s leg was returned without incident and she agreed not to press charges. The suspects were eventually turned over to their parents, who clearly did not get a kick out of their antics.

Found in the Parma Sun Post

Erie County, NY
A child had a crayon stuck in its nose on Mapleton Drive , Amherst .

Found in the Bee News

Tracy, CA
A woman called to say that her 13-year-old son had shot out her 9-year-old son’s tooth with a pellet gun about two weeks ago.

She said the boys are allowed to play with guns unsupervised when they visit their father’s house in northern Tracy. She wanted an officer to go with her when she speaks with the father.

Found in the Tracy Press

Bozeman, MT
• A man was “hog tied” outside a home on Rose Street after he started fighting with people. When officers arrived, the man was tied up on the sidewalk. An officer gave him a ride home.

• A child on South Church Avenue called 911 because he was mad at his mom.

• A woman on South 14th Avenue told police that someone put dog poop on her friend’s vehicle.

• Teenagers were in the lobby of the Law and Justice Center. They wanted to photograph an officer for a scavenger hunt.

• Four men in a vehicle on West Madison Avenue flashed passersby with a nude picture of a woman.

Found in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Mukilteo, WA
Officers received a third party report of a child living in the woods near the playground area around the 11100 block of Chennault Beach Rd. The child was reported to be covered in mud and had “snake bites” all over her. There was no age, race, name, or any other information on the child. Officers checked the wooded area but did not see any evidence of anyone living in the woods.

Found in the Mukilteo Beacon

Middletown, OH
A 30-year-old man accused of trying to sell his 2-year-old son in a drug store parking lot is held at the city jail in lieu of $5,500 bond, jail officials said today.

Jason W. McCarthy was charged Monday with child endangering and loitering in the aid of a drug offense after police said he asked a woman to buy his son at Walgreen’s drug store, 700 S. Breiel Boulevard.

He is scheduled to appear in Middletown Municipal Court April 18.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

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