Small Town Misfit

Portsmouth, NH
7:40 a.m.: A Jones Avenue caller reported his son will not go to school.

Found on Seacoast Online

Norwood, MA
Police got a noise complaint of someone using a loudspeaker at 8:54 a.m. at 180 Codman Road. The loudspeaker was coming from a TV crew filming for the television program “The View.” Police asked the crew to keep it down.

Found in The Daily News Transcript

City of Española, NM
12:23 a.m. - A caller said that they were at the Taco Bell earlier and when they inquired about two soft tacos missing from their order, an employee gave them the finger.

Found in The Rio Grande Sun

Bella Vista, AR
At 10:14 p.m. Wednesday, Carla Catron called from her cell phone at the Walnut Street Wal-Mart Supercenter to report she saw a woman in her 50s carrying a 22-inch television and large trash container out of the store. She said the alarm went off, but the greeter at the door didn’t try to stop the shoplifter. When Catron tried to confront the woman, Catron was ignored, so she followed the suspect to Locust Street, where security personnel found the suspect and recovered the stolen merchandise.

Found in The Benton County Daily Record

Finkburg, MD
A stray shot fired by three men shooting in the dark at pumpkins floating in a pond in the 3400 block of Gamber Road caused an estimated $800 damage to the passenger door of a 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche being driven on Route 91 about 5:30 p.m. Nov. 5, according to State Trooper Michael R. Myers II of the Westminster barracks.

Found in the Baltimore Sun

Portsmouth, NH
10:49 a.m.: A Northwood Road caller reported illegal dumping of trash.

Then…
1:24 p.m.: A Hanover Street caller reported a large rat under an entrance ramp.

Then…
4:29 p.m.: A Greenland Road caller reported a suspicious bag that smelled bad. Police discovered the bag contained trash.

Found on Seacoast Online

Rio Grande, NM
11:13 p.m. – A naked man and a naked woman were fighting near the entrance to Starlighter Loop, a caller said. City police picked up a 23-year-old naked man for detox.

Almost 4 hours later…

3:04 a.m. – A caller on Starlighter Loop said the naked woman who was fighting earlier was back outside and was naked again and looking for trouble. City police picked up a 23-year-old naked female for detox.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Tracy, CA
A caller reported that he had found a threatening note addressed to his son in front of his house on the 100 block of Meritt Drive on Thursday afternoon. He told officers the note said, “Your (sic) gonna pay for what you did.”

He said the note had an unhappy face drawn on it. Officers are investigating.

Found in the Tracy Press

Los Gatos, CA
Wednesday, a woman at Courtside Club, 14675 Winchester Blvd., said she feared for her safety when a man in the parking lot threatened to kill her for refusing to buy magazines from him. The woman returned to the facility and reported the incident about 7:30 p.m.

Found in The Mercury News

Fergus Falls, Minn.

A man living on the 700 block of Riverside Court called police Tuesday complaining that his neighbor’s dogs are always on his property. He said “he would like them talked to.”

Found In The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Chadron, NE
1:59 p.m. Caller from the 400 block of Third Street advised of a strange man that’s been hanging around the above location. Caller advised that a subject has been calling her and her employees and singing Elvis songs to them.

Found in The Chadron Record

Benton County, AR
At 6:16 p.m. Wednesday, a turtle with an angel on its back was reported stolen from a backyard on Taylor Drive.

Found in the Daily Record