Small Town Misfit

Rio Grande, NM
Monday, June 4, 2007, 1:30 p.m. - A caller advised there were invisible poisoned balls being pushed up against his body. The caller said the suspect is the federal government and this had been going on for the last 10 years, but now the balls were emitting poison. The caller advised that these balls are radio transponders and each of them has a different poison. No report was taken.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Portsmouth, NH
9:04 p.m. — A South Street caller told police he heard a female scream but would not be available for follow-up calls because he was “getting in the bath tub with his wife.”

Found in Seacoast Online

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

Rio Grande, NM
6:41 p.m. — A Pacheco Lane caller said a man came to her house and insisted on shampooing her carpet. She said she thought it was a little odd, and requested police patrol the area.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Medina, OH
Residents reported a man attempting to sell swords door-to-door at 2 p.m. Saturday on Branch Road. Police contacted the man, who said he sells decorative weapons at flea markets and fairs but denied knocking on any doors. He was asked to refrain from bothering residents

Found in the Sun News

Emeryville, CA
“Piedmont police logs show that on April 24, a resident “complained of man who asked her if she knew what made plants sprout from the ground.’”

Found in the East Bay Express

Thanks Davis!

Rio Grande, NM
4:55 p.m. — An Ohkay Express caller said a man dressed all in black was staring at the clerk.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Chico, CA
3:26 a.m. Welfare check reported on the 700 block of Salem Street. “(Subject said) the world will not leave her two children alone. She says that if the world does not leave her children alone, she will call the Catholic Church and send them to Spain. She knows Bill and Hillary Clinton personally…”

Found in the Orion

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

Hey folks, a couple of readers just let me know that their antivirus software is warning them of a threat from Small Town Misfit when they load the page. If you’re having this problem, please let me know. There is apparently malicious code somewhere in the site. I’ve changed all the passwords, and reverted back to a clean version of my site’s theme, so hopefully that will stomp out the problem. But it is possible that the code is somewhere in my database, which would mean that there’s still a bug out there.

The evil code is apparently a trojan called “Downloader.”

I strive to keep Small Town Misfit free of intrusive advertisements, popups, or software, so please let me know right away if you’re receiving warnings of any kind.

Travis

UPDATE: Thanks to some helpful tips from readers, we’ve found the problem. Someone is injecting code into individual posts that installs this nasty critter. I’ve removed all of the bad code for now, and I’ll keep an eye out for more infestations!

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

Chattanooga, TN
Police were called to a store on Highway 153 after a female clerk said she was frightened by questions asked by two white males.

She said the men asked when she was closing, when was the last time she had been robbed, and did she have anything to protect her against a robbery.

Officers located the men in the 5400 block of Highway 153.

Police said one of the men was the suspect who “set a female’s hair on fire.” No further details were given about that incident.

Found in the Chattanoogan