Small Town Misfit

Charlotte, NC
A 27-year-old woman said a man she gave her phone number to has been calling and threatening her for the past several days. She said the man calls saying things like, “I know where you live and I’m going to f*** you up.” He started making the threatening calls the day after she gave him her number. She has no idea why he’s harassing her.

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

Kalispell, MT
1:03 p.m. Parents and students at Somers Elementary School were counseled after a child, who thought his teacher gave him too much homework, wrote a list of people to kill. Two other kids saw the list, thought it was funny and made their own. Names on the list included prominent figures such as Santa Claus.

Found in the Flathead Beacon

Jeffco, CO
A Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy was sent to the Golden Panda Restaurant, 7470 S. Pierce St. at 3:30 March 14 on a report of a disturbance. A woman at the restaurant told the deputy she had gone to the bathroom and when she returned her table had been cleared off and her cell phone was missing.

While the deputy was talking to the woman, she started emptying her pockets and lifted her shirt, revealing a white sports bra with a cell phone held between her breasts. When the deputy tried to ask her about the phone the woman grabbed her children, screamed, “You’ll hear from my lawyer,” went outside and drove off in a gold van with the front hubcap missing. The deputy followed the woman outside, but could not get a license number from the van.

The deputy spoke to the restaurant owners who said they both saw the woman place the phone in her bra while standing in the bar area. The deputy told the owners to call the sheriff’s office if the woman returned.

Found in the Jeffco Sheriff’s Blotter

Lake Oswego, OR
3:30 p.m. A woman found a posting on the Internet that indicated she was “part of the Iraq party.”

Found in the Lake Oswego Review

Rio Grande, NM
8:54 p.m. — A Hilltop Y Road caller said a man came to his house asking for a ride and then threatened to shoot him. The man also wanted to sell him a drill for $10. Tribal Police transferred the call to State Police.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Rio Grande, NM
5:28 p.m. - A White Swan Road caller said her neighbors “stole her bird and placed it dead on the window.” She said they left their initials on the window next to the bird. Deputies went to the neighbors to question them but the adults of the household weren’t home.

5:30 p.m. — A Shadowood Lane caller said there was a lot of drug activity going on and she had been calling drug enforcement but nothing was getting done. She said her neighbors had been harassing her and “when they placed the dead bird on the window they left their initials.” No report was taken by the police.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Atlanta, GA
A 30-year-old man said he got home from work and found a checker/chess board in front of his apartment on Piedmont Avenue. A note was taped to the board. It read: “To [the man] from Satan. Welcome to hell. Play with me and you’ll see the dead. It’s not in your head Satan.”

Turns out the game board came from the lobby of the apartment complex.

The man said he didn’t know who was responsible for the threatening note/game board. Also, the man said he had been in conflict with evil spirits prior to this incident.

Found in Creative Loafing

Waynesboro, GA
A Sardis woman and her son were arrested after the family lashed out at deputies with a colorful array of curse words at the Cotton Gin Food Market.

When deputies initially tried to speak to Kody Burke, 18, who was observed avoiding a road block, he said “they can’t (expletive) touch me.”

His juvenile brother then angrily approached deputies, yelling “Y’all ain’t gonna (expletive) with my brother. What the (expletive) did he do?”

Their mother, Krystal Jackson, 36, joined in, saying, “(Expletive) this (expletive).” When deputies warned her of her language, she continued, “Y’all ain’t gonna do a (expletive) thing to my son. He can do any (expletive) thing he wants to.”

When deputies proceeded to take Jackson into custody, Burke screamed, “Y’all better not do anything to my mother-(expletive) momma.”

Both mother and son were charged with disorderly conduct.

Found in the True Citizen

Grass Valley, CA
12:41 p.m. - A woman called from the 13000 block of Meda Drive to report a person violated a restraining order by calling 30 times in the last hour and threatening to kill her and cut her car’s brake lines. A deputy called the woman, who said she did not consider the threats credible. However, the person called the woman 29 times while the deputy was on the phone with the woman. The deputy took a report.

Found in the Union

Clovis, NM
About 4 a.m. Dec. 4 an officer responded to a home in the 100 block of Hinkle Street for a man with a knife.

A woman said her boyfriend had gone crazy and threatened everyone in the house because he said American women have no respect for men from Mexico.

She said he grabbed her by the hair and held the knife to her chest.

The man, whom officers noted was intoxicated, was arrested for battery on a household member, aggravated assault and kidnapping.

Found in the Clovis News Journal

Campbell, CA
2:18 a.m. Dec. 8 A driver waiting in line at Jack in the Box said a person in a vehicle who tried to cut in front of him got out of the vehicle and threatened him with a knife, then kicked his vehicle, jumped on the hood and punched the windshield.

Found in the San Jose Mercury News