Small Town Misfit

Bridgeton, NJ
A Delaware man reported Wednesday night that an individual who was walking by his South Avenue church motioned to his waist area and told him he should “smoke him” for staring at him.

The victim was unable to provide a thorough description of the suspect, who was not located by police, but told police he believes the individual was armed with a gun.

The victim told police he was looking at the suspect because he was singing very loudly.

Found in the Bridgeton News

Chadron, NE
3:24 p.m. Caller advised the person living nearby has their TV turned up so loud that it shakes his bed. Caller requesting officers to make them turn it down.

Found in the Chadron Record

Marblehead, MA
Report of a Lafayette Street resident concerned about a person kneeling by the river behind her house, at 2:34p.m. According to the report, the person “appeared to be reaching for something in the river” and had been there “for awhile.” After using a pair of binoculars to look closer, however, the caller realized that what she had thought to be a kneeling person was actually a rock.

Found in Marblehead Magazine

Nevada County, CA
11:42 a.m., a man called from the 21000 block of Cameron Way to report he found two bags at the bottom of his driveway. One bag contained school books and snacks and the other contained pornographic material, a black wig and pair of blue shorts.

Found in The Union

Fergus Falls, MN
A Deer Creek woman called the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Department last Wednesday reporting that her turkey was stolen.

The woman told dispatchers that she needed the turkey for Thanksgiving and that she wanted deputy to get it back to her. The department said it handled the matter.

Found in the Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Corpus Christi, TX
Police were called several times late Thursday and early Friday to Best Buy, 4717 S. Padre Island Drive, in reference to disturbances involving customers waiting in line outside the store.

Police said officers were called at 11:30 p.m. because people waiting in line began arguing. Officers were sent back to the same location about 1:57 a.m. when four suspects drove by and threw eggs at people in line.

Medics were later sent to the store to treat a woman who had collapsed.

Found in The Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Springfield, OR
12:53 p.m., 2500 block Centennial Blvd. A female reported that a woman with sores on her face came to her residence and asked if she could dig a hole in the backyard. The woman said she had previously lived at the home and buried something behind the shed. The current resident declined the woman’s request and told police that when she moved in three years before she found syringes in the yard.

Found in Springfield News

Marblehead, MA
Officer Lori Cameron rescued five baby ducklings, among a flock of 11 ducklings, who fell into a storm drain on Cloutman’s Lane at 10:18 a.m.

Cameron said the mother duck was frantic, hearing the babies quacking in the drain, but a contractor working in the area lifted the drain cover and she used a pool skimmer to fish the ducklings up, one at a time, to a delighted Mama Duck. The incident followed a similar incident on Orne Street about two weeks earlier.

Also:
A duckling got stuck in a manhole near 49 Norman St. at 12:28 p.m. and it was reported that the mother duck was “very angry.” The animal officer and DPW responded and made Mama Duck happy.

Found in Marblehead Magazine

Clovis, NM
Police tried Saturday morning to help a man seated in a car at the 400 block of West Ninth Avenue who was screaming that his ankle was broken.

When police arrived, they found a 22-year-old Clovis man whose right ankle was very swollen and flopped from side to side. However, he refused to provide any information, warned a man with him to “keep your mouth shut and don’t tell them anything,” and refused to file a police report.

Found in the Clovis News Journal

Holtville, CA
A male subject walked into the Brawley Police Department at 8:40 a.m. to report that he was going to evict his 15-year-old sister from his home. The male subject stated that he just wanted to let them (police department) know.

Found in the Imperial Valley News

Marblehead, MA
An officer bumped into a woman in front of the station who reported having a particular medical problem that “only occurs when she is in Massachusetts,” at 4:43 a.m.

Found in Marblehead Magazine

Canal Fulton, OH
Officer responded to a 911 hangup. It was found that the caller was calling because a 7 year old male used his yard as a bathroom. Juvenile was advised and the substance was removed.

Found on the City of Canal Fulton Web Site