Small Town Misfit

Fergus Falls, MN
A local man faces charges of second and fifth degree assault after taking out a knife and stabbing furniture at a residence in Fergus Falls, according to Otter Tail County court records.

Timothy Femrite, 41, allegedly returned home drunk and started talking inappropriately to people at the residence. He then proceeded to take out a knife and stab the couch.

Authorities were called and the man was arrested.

Found in the Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Atlanta, GA
A woman was asleep in her apartment on Maynard Court. She woke up and noticed a burning sock. Someone had lit a sock on fire and set it on her window ledge outside her apartment. Police arrived and found a burnt sock on the ground near her apartment. There were no injuries from the sock-burning. An officer wrote, “It is unknown who lit the sock on fire or why.” Investigation continues on the burning sock.

Found in Creative Loafing

Columbia, SC
A 31-year-old man and his 36-year-old girlfriend were eating dinner on June 20 at the San Jose restaurant on Hardscrabble Road when a 25-year-old man (who had been “dancing in the rain,” according to reports) put his arm around the 31-year-old and told him that he “needed a boyfriend.” When the 31-year-old rebuffed his advances, the 25-year-old became aggressive (and defensive, asserting that he wasn’t gay) and attacked the 31-year-old. Friends pulled the 25-year-old away, and apologies and alcohol followed. The two parties were leaving the restaurant together when the 25-year-old ran to his car, produced a handgun and fired four shots at the couple before running away. Miraculously, no one was injured.

Found in the Free Times

Point Reyes Station, CA
A resident at 3:25 p.m. reported “3 subjects dressed in Ku Klux Klan outfits with a video camera yelling white supremacist remarks” on property across from the resident. The three male high school students explained they were working on a class project.

Found in the Point Reyes Light

Erie County, NY
A St. Boniface Road reported her doorbell was rung and five minutes later she went to the door and found a “no parking” sign at the doorstep.

Found in Bee News

Atlanta, GA
A man met a brown-haired woman at a restaurant on Buford Highway. She said that he could be taught how to be a card dealer and work in a Las Vegas casino — in exchange for a small fee. So the man went to a hotel on Peachtree Road and met with three men who further explained the details of becoming a card dealer. Then, the man went to a bank and withdrew $8,000 and gave it to the men — the money he had to pay to become a card dealer.

Later, the man went back to their hotel room to pick up a package containing his airline ticket and card-dealer training materials, but no one was in the hotel room. He hasn’t heard from any of the people who offered to train him to be card dealer. And he’s out $8,000.

Found in Creative Loafing

Fergus Falls, MN
Authorities responded to a personal injury report behind Service Foods yesterday and found a man with a stick in his eye, according to the Fergus Falls Police Department.

The 35-year-old man from Fergus Falls appeared to be drunk and he was transported to Lake Region Hospital.

His condition is unknown and authorities are still unsure about how the stick got in his eye.

Found in the Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Lake Crystal, MN

Found in the Mankato Free Press

Thanks Randy!

Hartford, CT
According to Middletown police, without any apparent provocation, on June 13 Cole Bedell, 45, allegedly threw a chunk of pavement at an excavator on Mill Street. A nearby police officer who happened to be working at the site attempted to restrain Bedell, who then went on to allegedly attack the officer. Bedell’s mission? When arrested, he reportedly yelled, ¨You´re digging up an Indian site, and you´re all going to Hell for it.¨ Bedell was charged with breach of peace and criminal assault.

Found in the Hartford Advocate

Brown County, IN
1:03 a.m. Report of a slender white male wearing a white checkered shirt standing next to the guardrail on State Road 46 West.

2:18 a.m. Caller from above wants to know if officers found him and stated she wanted to know she wasn’t seeing things.

Found in the Brown County Democrat

Del Ray Beach, FL
A woman called police from the 1500 block of South Federal Highway to report that while she was in a grocery store she was approached by two men. The men asked her for directions, then she gave them the directions and they left. When she was outside loading her vehicle with groceries, the same men approached her again.

One of the men sat in her car and demanded she give them a ride. When the victim refused, she went inside a nearby bank to cash a check. When she came back outside, the men were waiting for her.

The men took a blue bandana and rubbed it on her face and shoulders. The victim told police it must have been some kind of voodoo, because she got into the car and took a ride with them. They used no force. They asked her to go inside the bank and withdraw $2,000. The victim did and when she came back outside she gave it to the men. When she “came to her senses and was released from the spell,” she called police.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Columbia, SC
A 75-year-old woman complained May 25 that another woman has been calling and leaving obscene messages on her telephone. One of the messages said that “her son wanted to have sex with her,” and then, according to a police officer who listened to it, the message got “very x-rated.” The cop helped the woman hook up a recorder to record additional messages, should the woman call back.

Found in the Free Times