Small Town Misfit

Chetek, WI
9:33 p.m.-City of Chetek caller stated she and her husband heard something loud outside. Her husband went outside and walked down the street and found that the newspaper vending machine for The Chetek Alert had been blown up. By the time he got down there the smoke was gone, no flames. Officer advised. 9:45 p.m., officer has made contact with someone at The Alert and she is coming down. Officer advised possible M-80 was placed inside the box as there is a lot of damage to the box. Officer noted the description of two vehicles driving around the area.

Found in the Chetek Alert

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Grass Valley, CA
At 5:30 p.m., three teenagers dressed in black - two girls and one boy - were seen lighting newspaper stands on fire on the 500 block of Henderson St. They left in a maroon Subaru before police arrived, and negligible damage was found.

Found in The Union

Bozeman, MT
Three men were lighting bottle rockets. One of them lit fireworks and threw them at an officer. The man was cited for disorderly conduct.

Found in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Durango, CO
11:16 p.m. A woman said her ex was supposed to be in jail but was working the front door at the Abbey Theatre, 128 E. College Drive.

Found in the Durango Herald

Rio Grande, NM
6:56 p.m. – Two women named Chrystal were arrested after a fight in the Taco Bell parking lot.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Columbia, SC
3/18/2006 - Police were called to an area of the interstate after construction workers reported a $20,000 backhoe had been stolen. The machine was kept in a designated spot so that several crews could use it for road maintenance. It had been missing since June, but because different crews use it at different times, everyone assumed that the other crews were using it.

Found in The State

Madison, WI
A woman called the police department at 7:15 p.m. to report a female solicitor who sold her $125 in magazine subscriptions in Oak Ridge Hall.

The solicitor told the woman she was trying to earn money for a trip to Europe and convinced her to get cash from an ATM because it would help her earn extra points for her trip.

The solicitor told the woman she worked for the CIA as a child psychologist.

The student said she still had her receipt and planned to cancel the subscriptions.

Found in The Spectator

Pima, AZ
A resident in the 8200 block of North Oracle Road called police at 6:12 p.m. March 8 to report an unwanted person at a homeowner’s association meeting. He told police one of the homeowners brought her attorney, and he was interrupting the meeting by asking questions. The resident represented by the attorney said she brought him to ask questions on her behalf. The officer pointed out that it was an open meeting and as a representative of a homeowner, the attorney was allowed to attend.

Found in the Arizona Star

Marana, AZ
A homeowner in the 8900 block of North Lawndale Drive called police at 12:44 p.m. March 3 to report suspicious mail. He said he and his wife had returned after a week out of town. He told police they were going through the mail and found an envelope containing three marijuana cigarettes. He said someone had written his name on the envelope and left it in his mailbox. The marijuana was turned over to police.

Found in the Arizona Star

Rio Grande, NM
10:43 p.m. – A Corlett Road man said he returned home and found his TV missing and a man passed out in a car in his driveway. The caller said he didn’t know if the stolen TV and the unconscious man were connected, but he didn’t see the TV inside the unconscious man’s car.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Morgan County, GA
On February 18 a criminal trespass complaint was filed at a Monticello Road location after a man reported that two of his Chihuahua dogs were missing. One dog answers to Vanilla Ice and the other dog answers to Queen.

Found in the Morgan County Citizen

Cleveland Heights, OH
Thomas Keys, 45, of East Cleveland, was arrested and charged with inducing panic after a disturbance March 7 at Burger King, 3456 Mayfield Road.

Police said about 6:30 p.m., Keys entered the restaurant, ordered some food and sat down. He returned to the counter and complained that he didn’t receive all the food he ordered and that he was owed $5.

Keys then allegedly threw a cup of coffee at the manager, pulled a BB gun from his pocket and fired it twice at the manager, police said. He later shot at a customer service area and a security monitor.

Keys then picked up a computer monitor and threw it to the ground, breaking it. Police responded and he was taken to University Hospitals for evaluation.

Found on the Sun Press

Quay County, NM
At 5:38 p.m. a female reported a disturbance on Fourth Street. The caller said a person in a truck was honking their horn repeatedly and that “a fat cow came out and pushed her down,” according to the incident report. The caller said she was only concerned with the honking. The vehicle was found empty when officers arrived.

Found in The Quay County Sun