Small Town Misfit

Bozeman, MT
A person told police there was a suspicious vehicle on North 27th Avenue. The people inside the vehicle were shooting gophers with a slingshot.

And

A man wearing a cloak was throwing daggers into a tree. He was asked to leave.

Found in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Durango, CO
9:22 p.m. A recreational vehicle went through the drive-through at McDonald’s ignoring the height restriction and wrecking the drive-through.

Found in the Durango Herald

Erie County, NY
A Davis Road man reported someone damaged his storm door with a jack hammer. No such evidence existed.

Found in Bee News

Columbia, SC
Cops were called to a car wash on Jaybird Lane to remove a man who was drying his truck while wearing nothing but a fishnet G-string. Cops arrested the man for indecent exposure. When they searched his truck, they found a pistol and a 6-inch rubber penis stuffed inside a sock.

Found in the Free Times

Chattanooga, TN
Police went to S. Orchard Knob Avenue to check out a report that a midget prostitute was working the area.

No midget prostitute could be found.

Found in the Daily Chattanoogan

Ok, this one isn’t a police blot, but I thought you guys would find it interesting:

Wal-Mart tops local police calls, sheriff’s office finds
Wal-Mart isn’t just the number-one retailer in the universe. It also leads the way in calls for help to local police.

No west-county property generates more calls-for-service to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office than Wal-Mart on Northeast Highway 99, according to a sheriff’s report.

And beating out the entire county for police calls to any “retail, commercial or residential development” is the Wal-Mart retail complex the anchor store and its satellite storefronts and fast-food restaurants at the intersection of Mill Plain Boulevard and Interstate 205.

n “Wal-Mart consistently ranks among the top 10 locations locally generating calls for law enforcement service.”

• The Mill Plain Wal-Mart, 221 N.E. 104th Ave., generated 490 calls for service in 2005.

• The Hazel Dell Wal-Mart, 9000 N.E. Highway 99, generated 479 calls.

• There were 112 arrests made at the Hazel Dell Wal-Mart in 2005. Fifty-three of those people went straight to jail. Most of the rest were cited and released with a future court date.

Read the whole thing in The Columbian

Ogden, IA
3:55 p.m.: Male individual shooting a rifle from the back door of his residence was warned if he continued, he would be cited.

Found in the Ogden Reporter

Saugus, MA
Detail officer reports a female in small car without a front tire on Main Street who did not stop. Female operator cited for expired registration and car was towed.

Found in the Saugonian

Erie County, NY
A garden shop on Walden Avenue complained a man was urinating on the merchandise.

Found in Bee News

North Ridgeville, OH
Motorists on Route 20 in North Ridgeville about 9 p.m. May 13 got more than eye-full. Police received several reports of a naked woman walking on the road.

The woman told officers she had been staying with a man in a nearby motel when she became suspicious that a third person was hiding in the room and decided to hit the road in the buff.

According to the police, officers searched the room, but couldn’t find a peeping person. However, they did find shady substances and the man was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Found in The Sun

Chico, CA
1:59 a.m. Suspicious subject reported on the 1300 block of East Lassen Avenue. “Subject walking along the street carrying a double-headed ax and yelling.”

Found in the Orion Online

Rio Grande, NM
1:06 a.m. - Police received a report of a woman screaming in the area of Lovin Oven Bakery. Police did not find a screaming woman. The man who lives in the van behind the shop said he hadn’t heard anything, police reported.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun