Small Town Misfit

Brooklyn, OH
A pair of 19-year-old Cleveland men took a demolition derby-style cruise through the aisles of a local grocery store in the wee hours of the morning on Aug. 13, and ended up in jail after police eventually chased them down. Workers said the men were using the store’s motorized carts to race through the aisles, knocking over displays. When security workers escorted them to the door, the men bolted for a nearby field. Police established a perimeter and apprehended the suspects about 20 minutes later.

Found in the Brooklyn Sun Journal

Strongsville, OH
Some kids talking about gas-guzzling vehicles apparently struck a nerve with a passerby, who yelled at them and defended her right to drive one.

A man called police last Thursday to say that while at Borders, his grandchildren were talking about high gas prices and people who drive gas hogs.

A woman then screamed and gestured at them, saying she drives a Hummer. She left the parking lot in a 2007 model.

Officers told the man it wasn’t a police matter, but he said he was concerned because they woman had taken down their license plate number.

Found in the Sun News

Charlotte, NC
A 46-year-old woman said she was assaulted by a family member for moving furniture in his house without permission. The woman was a guest in her relative’s home and took it upon herself to do a little remodeling. When her relative saw what she did, he got angry and tried to push a china cabinet on her.

Found in Creative Loafing

Grass Valley, CA
At 11:24 p.m., a woman called the sheriff’s office from the 11000 block of Bandolier Way reporting that a large bear keeps entering her house. She said the bear took the screen off her window and came in.

Found in the Union

Grass Valley, CA
7:54 p.m., a caller from the 12000 block of Rough and Ready Highway reported that a 19-year-old man was trapped in concrete.

Found in the Union

Charleston, SC
A man apparently wanted to re-enact a scene from “Baywatch” at Folly Beach on July 3.

According to a public safety report, a 25-year-old man took a lifeguard board used for water rescues from a lifeguard post in front of the Folly Beach Holiday Inn. He then ran into the water with it, despite several lifeguards yelling for him to stop.

They went into the water and chased him, but the man got off the surfboard and swam away. Reporting officers arrived just as the man returned to the Holiday Inn.

The man said, “It was all a joke,” and that he was trying to impress some girls. Officers told him that he was putting other people’s lives in danger if lifeguards needed the board to rescue a person in distress.

The man was charged with petit larceny.

Found in the Post and Courier

Charleston, SC
Police were called to a Palm Boulevard home to investigate loud music on June 13. An officer noticed smoke coming from the pool area and walked to the pool gate and saw a 39-year-old woman covered with a sheet or towel and lying on a lounge chair. When the officer tried to get her attention, she stood up and jumped into the pool naked. The officer told her she needed to turn the music down, and then her husband came outside “using profanity” and ordered his dogs to attack police, the report said. More officers arrived and tried to get the woman’s name and birth date so they could write her a ticket for noise, but she gave a fake name.

Then the husband yelled, “Leave my wife alone. She has no clothes on,” the report said. The man also told officers that he was calling his attorney and repeatedly told police to get off his property. Police left and planned to mail tickets to the home, the report said.

Found in the Post and Courier

Thanks for your patience!

In the meantime:

Goleta Valley, CA
The young man who tried to run from his taxi fare accidentally left one valuable piece of information in the back seat of the cab: his driver’s license.

The 25-year-old dork hailed the ride from downtown Santa Barbara to Isla Vista, then fled on foot when it came time to pay for his ride.

In an effort to recover the money lost, authorities suggested the taxi driver send a bill to the address listed on the license.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

See you August 1!

Hey guys, sorry for the slowdown. We’ll be back shortly, and with a vengeance. Just taking care of some backend stuff. In the meantime, go do some crazy stuff so we can find it in the police blotters!

Travis

Columbia, SC
A 41-year-old woman told officers on June 24 that someone took about 5 gallons of gasoline from her car. And there was some brown stuff around the gas cap that looked like melted chocolate.

Found in the Free Times

Atlanta, GA
A garbage fire was burning on Marco Drive. A firefighter said his team responded to the scene and put out the garbage fire, which had spread to the street. The firefighter said once they extinguished the flames, a man walked up and reignited the debris right in front of them. A police officer detained the 57-year-old man. He said he started the fire because he wanted to. He went to jail.

Found in Creative Loafing

Tracy, CA
7:51 a.m.: A man on the 200 block of Ranchero Way reported someone got inside his home through a back screen door, took down his smoke detector and swiped the battery inside it.

Found in the Tracy Press