Small Town Misfit

Appleton, WI
Suspicious incident: Police approached a man who was using a laptop computer in his car in the 200 block of E. Brewster Street. The man was using someone else’s insecure wireless Internet connection to download music. Because the man was parked outside of an apartment building, officers could not determine the victim.

Found in the Appleton Post-Crescent

Tracy, CA
A man said his father refused to leave a condemned house and was barbecuing inside. Press staff report

A man called the police Saturday to report that his father had been barbecuing inside a house on West Seventh Street that’s been slated for demolition.

The man’s father had refused to leave the house and “kept inviting homeless” people inside. Adult protective services was scheduled to pick up his father and mother Monday.

Found in the Tracy Press

Columbia, SC
On April 1, police were dispatched to a Carver Street residence in response to a disorderly conduct report. Upon arrival, a 78-year-old woman told police that two people came onto her porch and rearranged her furniture and flowerpots. The two strangers then told her that they wanted to enter her home and bless it and pray with her. Because the woman did not know the subjects, and perhaps was a bit freaked out by the situation, she locked her door and called the police. The woman also said that the strangers wanted to hug her.

Found in the Free Times

Palm Beach, FL
On Monday, March 19, cops received a call from a woman who’d returned home to find her apartment with a strong odor of marijuana. After entering her bedroom she found her television on and playing a pornographic movie, as well as, a cigarette butt in her bed. In her kitchen she found a new package of cheese and a package of turkey had been opened. She found a large plastic bag containing smaller bags with marijuana and in a laptop was stolen. The victim suspects a possible suspect is her ex-boyfriend. The officer found the deadbolt was forced open and the evidence was taken in for investigation.

Found in the Weekday Newspaper

Coto De Casa, CA
A woman said two small graves appeared in the fields behind her residence on Fair Valley. The woman said her daughter saw two men, approximately 30 years old, digging them the day before.

Found in the OC Register

Columbia, SC
A 23-year-old woman reported Feb. 27 that a man had been sleeping and attempting to “set up house” in a home she is renovating on Clark Street. When police arrived the man had locked himself in the residence and refused to leave. Once police got the man to exit the place, they discovered that he had entered the house by breaking a back window. More alarming was that the man had marked his territory by leaving a trail of feces behind. This act of poop might have been in response to the lady changing all the locks on the squatter after she had asked him to leave the premises.

Found in the Free Times

Ladera Ranch, CA
A Ladera Ranch woman was having a problem with her son and My Space on Feb. 18.

The woman called deputies at 9:12 p.m. to report that there were 20 people in her home on Galaxy Isle near Heavenly Isle that were refusing to leave. There were reportedly 50 more subjects on their way to the house.

The woman said someone posted an advertisement on the My Space Web site saying that there was a party at the house.

Deputies reported that the woman’s eldest son let the people in and that mother and son were having problems. The woman’s son was detained in the parking lot near the location for reckless driving.

Found in the OC Register

Clovis, NM
Around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday an officer was dispatched to a hotel in the 600 block of East First Street for a reported disturbance. A woman told them a man had knocked at the door of her room and walked in when she answered. She said she didn’t know him and asked him to leave several times. She said the man sat on the bed and used the phone to call a female, then laid down. The officers noted the man, lying on the bed when they arrived, seemed intoxicated. They placed him into custody for criminal trespass and transported him to the jail.

Found in the Clovis News Journal

Royal Palm Beach
A man was inside a store preaching to customers in the 9900 block of Belvedere Road. He was asked to leave the store but he refused. Security called police who asked the man to leave. He walked toward the door, then stopped walking and started preaching again. The officer told him he was going to be arrested if he didn’t follow the orders. The man said that he was assigned a mission from God to give spiritual guidance and was unable to leave. He was arrested.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Chico, CA
3:37 a.m. Graffiti reported on the 1900 block of East 20th Street. “Reporting party is cleaning the parking lot. Suspects were spraying pornography on the wall. Suspects got into the gold Jeep and are sitting in the vehicle.”

Found in the Orion Online

Waynesboro, GA
A local woman called police last week when her neighbor wouldn’t quit staring at her.

According to a report, the man stood in front of the woman’s residence and would not speak.

She added that she had caught him in her yard at night peeping into her bathroom window before, but he would run away when she saw him.

She also complained of damage to her property and rocks being thrown into her yard.

She said that when she returned from a “night out” two weeks prior, she noticed two posts missing from the back of the residence.

Found in the True Citizen

Chadron, NE
9:00 p.m. Caller from East Third St. advised a male subject in a Minnesota Vikings jacket keeps coming to the front door claiming he lives there and acting as if he can push his way in.

Found in the Chadron Record