Small Town Misfit

Nevada County, CA
At 4:48 p.m., a woman called from the 11000 block of Icon Way to report a woman showed up to her residence to attend a workshop and began digging in her yard with a hammer. The woman told the caller she was burying a tracking device and was joining a cult.

She later curled up into a fetal position. The caller believed the woman had mental health problems and she did not want her there. Deputies made contact. The woman went a hotel and said she would return to Mississippi.

Found in The Union

Chico, CA
8 p.m. Suspicious subject reported on the 800 block of West First Street. “Male subject came and parked in front of the reporting party’s garage. He was talking to himself and is in his vehicle. Suspect just drove into the reporting party’s garage door.”

Found in The Orion Online

Rio Grande, NM
4:53 p.m. – A truck from Reggie’s Septic Service was spilling sewage all over the road as it drove down Highway 84/285, another motorist reported.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Amherst, NY
A Millersport Highway resident called to report that a strange man approached the home and asked them for a ride to Buffalo.

Found in the Amherst Bee

Columbia, SC
Police were called to a discount department store at 1 p.m. Wednesday after a female customer complained about a man had touching her inappropriately. The 21-year-old victim told officers that a man had approached her at the store and struck up a conversation. He then started asking her about her shoes. He asked to see the arch support in one of her shoes, and when she took it off, he began to touch and compliment her feet. He told her how nice her feet were and that she should take care of them. She left the area, but he followed her. When police saw the store’s surveillance tapes, they saw the man following the woman and watching her from behind. The woman said she was not aware that he had followed her.

Found in The State

Durango, CO
1:37 p.m. A man refused to leave a hotel at 20 Stewart Street. The staff became angry that he walked down to the front desk each hour to pay one hour at a time.

Found in the Durango Herald

Anchorage, AK
A witness said he saw a man pull about five steaks from under his jacket while walking toward Burger King in Palmer from the direction of Carrs. Palmer police arrested the 33-year-old man for shoplifting. When asked what he intended with all those steaks, the man told officers he had no money and a family to feed. Police then issued the suspect a citation and drove him home. When officers went inside to check the man’s family, they got quite a shock. Instead of the usual wife and kids, this man’s family was a three-foot-long baby alligator; a big, fat python; and a tank full of piranha.

Found in the Anchorage Press

Danville, KY
4:53 p.m., rooster loose in area of Waveland Avenue that is chasing people and tearing up landscaping.

4:57 p.m., tractor trailer on fire has not stopped and is going northbound on bypass.

8:29 p.m., mailbox on fire on Shadeland Drive.

Found in the Advocate-Messenger

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Goleta, CA
A UCSB student, 18, claiming to be part of the Taliban, told deputies he was going to commit suicide after his arrest for public intoxication. Deputies contacted the underage drinker, January 13, as he was staggering alone along Del Playa Drive in Isla Vista. “The resistance against the United States . . . I started that (uprising),” the inebriated co-ed rambled. The young man was transported to jail.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Chattanooga, TN
The manager of a local Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant reported to police that her mother, whom she described as having a drug problem, stole her car and a bank deposit bag containing $752.41 that had been left in the car. She explained that her mother knew the bank bag was in the car, and that she had done this before.

Found in The Chattanooga Pulse

Erie County, NY
A man was reported running naked through a store on Walden Avenue while another man was videotaping him.

Found in Bee News