Small Town Misfit

Charlotte, NC
A 20-year-old man said a woman he briefly dated has been harassing him. He said over the course of eight days the woman has called him 500 times. He has stopped answering her calls, but she continues to pursue him, letting the calls ring out every time. He said they only dated two weeks, and now he can’t shake her ass.

Found in Creative Loafing

Grass Valley, CA
3:33 p.m. - A man walked into a business on the 200 block of Neal Street and started saying extremely negative things about women to the employees. The man had gray hair, missing teeth and was dressed as a cowboy. The man left but said he would come back for dinner.

Found in the Union

San Jose, CA
Is it me, or does this police blotter read like a script for the Twilight Zone?

• An intoxicated 21-year-old man “who decided to break some trees” was arrested.
• A person was driving recklessly in the parking lot at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints.
• A resident found bones on the side of her driveway.
• A person in a suspicious vehicle with two others hid his face from a person who observed them.
• A person was sleeping in a truck with something resembling a rifle displayed in the rear window.
• A person at Little River Park told police a dog secured to a tree was pulling so hard it was about to break and that a young child in the same area was throwing dirt at passing cars.
• Six handguns were stolen from a residence by someone who entered through a rear window.
• A parent reported being concerned that a neighbor was taking pictures of his children while they were playing in the yard.
• A man on crutches with black cat in his backpack was reported to be yelling at people passing by the library.

Found in the San Jose Mercury News

Columbia, SC
A 57-year-old woman called police on March 15 and complained that she couldn’t sleep because her next-door neighbor at a Blossom Street apartment complex was being loud. When an officer arrived he could hear the noise so he went next door and told the neighbor to quiet down. The officer then went back to the woman’s place. And he got there just in time to hear the neighbor banging on the wall between the two apartments.

Found in the Free Times

Chicago, IL
Police said the suspect was yelling and throwing lawn furniture at other residents of a building on the 4100 block of North Sheridan when the officer asked him what he was doing. The offender lunged at the officer, who subdued the offender who later admitted being on prescription drugs. Asked why he tried to attack the police officer, the offender said “that’s the way I roll.”

Found in Everyblock Chicago

Columbia, SC
A 23-year-old woman recently was cussing up a storm at a S.C. Department of Social Services office on Two Notch Road. A DSS caseworker supervisor told her several times to stop swearing, but the woman continued to curse until she finally was asked to leave. The woman then asked if she could borrow a pen to write a (profanity laced) note to her caseworker.

The 23-year-old was still cursing when she threw a pen between two employees who were nice enough to give it to her. At that point an officer put the woman in “escort position.” Finally she said she would leave, but not before complaining that the officer had hurt her arm. As she was leaving the charming young lady told everyone there that she would call her father and then flipped them all off.

Found in the Free Times

Columbia, SC
A 44-year-old woman called police Dec. 1 because she had been receiving harassing phone calls for more than a month. She said different people kept calling looking for a man named Larry. She elaborated that she repeatedly told the callers, whom she thought were from a bank, that there was no Larry at her home on Woodcrest Drive. When police responded to her complaint a deputy called the offending number and found that the calls were coming from a mental institution.

Found in the Free Times

Rio Grande, NM
8:40 p.m. — A caller said someone has been throwing rocks at her windows for about 14 years. She said she couldn’t see anyone outside. Police weren’t able to locate any criminal activity.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Mukilteo, WA
A party requested assistance with a subject who was disturbing other guests by making loud “bird calls” out the window of his room. The officer contacted an intoxicated male who advised he would stop and go to bed for the night.

Found in the Mukilteo Beacon

Durango, CO
5:11 p.m. A diesel truck drove by a peace rally in the 1100 block of Main Avenue, and the driver spewed diesel fuel in people’s faces.

Found in the Durango Herald

Rio Grande, NM
12:18 p.m. — An anonymous caller asked that police speak to subjects in a neighboring mobile home about their noisy peacocks. No report was taken.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Grass Valley, CA
At 11:27 a.m., a woman called from the 10000 block of Conifer Lane to report her neighbors were playing loud music. She sent her son to ask the neighbors to turn the music down, then the neighbors pointed potato guns at the caller and her children. Deputies contacted everyone involved and determined there was no crime.

Found in the Union