Small Town Misfit

Imperial Beach, CA
When city officials couldn’t find the 30-year-old time capsule they planned to unearth for the city’s 50th birthday yesterday, former mayor Mike Bixler decided to get creative….

He held up a rusted paint can, which he claimed to have found while gardening Monday.

The capsule contained a proposed new City Council uniform of tropical swim trunks and Hawaiian leis, a stack of unpaid city bills as well as the city’s financial reserves – $1.45 wrapped in a red bandanna to reflect the city’s large population of bikers and biker gangs in the 1980s….

The actual time capsule is buried somewhere in Triangle Park on Palm Avenue, but there are no markers identifying its location.

“Everyone in town remembers the day (it was buried) . . . but no one remembers where it is,” said Lorie Bragg, chairwoman of the 50th anniversary committee. “On all the speculations, I could be digging up the whole park.”

Bragg said she found a man with a metal detector on the beach and had him check the area to no avail. The city might look into using military equipment to find it, she said.

City officials planned to bury a new capsule yesterday, but decided to wait a few months to bury it at Veteran’s Park, which will be renovated by then. They’ll use GPS technology to keep record of the burial location.

Read the whole story on Signon San Diego

Westlake, OH
According to police reports, a sophisticated theft by deception took place shortly after 7 p.m. July 17 at Giant Eagle in the Promenade. A black woman, calling herself Kathy Williams, asked customer service staff to check for a note from another employee regarding a refund due to her. The note instructed the staff, by name, to give the suspect a cash refund of $284 for returned money orders.

The note also instructed the staff to not question the suspect, due to her having complained repeatedly to the store manager. The woman was given the money, but it was later determined that the note was not from any employee. Police are unsure how the note got behind the counter, but the suspect had laid extensive groundwork to complete the theft.

Found in the Sun News

Berea, OH
A North Rocky River Drive man said that within 10 minutes on July 23, he received three calls from an unknown man, asking if he wanted to buy crack cocaine for $1.

There were no other calls after that.

Found in The News Sun

Boerne, TX

Found in the Boerne Star

Grass Valley, CA
At 3:58 p.m., a caller from the 900 block of Idaho-Maryland Road reported a woman in a power chair and a young boy were blocking the roadway while they were eating blackberries. Cars were having to brake because they were located so close to the roadway.

Found in the Union

Chetek, WI
7:16 p.m.-Bloomer Medical Center caller advised of a patient who has some BBs embedded in his face. Officer advised. The boy was shooting a chipmunk and the BBs ricocheted off a building and hit him in the face.

Found in the Chetek Alert

Erie County, NY
A caller in Amherst said there were about 15 people in another apartment screaming. Police determined it was an Oriental family singing hymns.

Found in Bee News

Avon Lake, OH
An Avon Lake man nearly called the Crocodile Hunter July 17 when he looked on his Surrey Lane porch and saw a small alligator. Instead, he called police, who removed the animal _ which turned out to be made of rubber _ from the home.

Found in The Sun

Durango, CO
11:09 a.m. A cat had a can stuck on its head in a garage in the 500 block of Trew Creek Trails.

Found in the Durango Herald

Columbia, SC
Five Points business owner noticed a 49-year-old woman bathing in the Five Points fountain on July 18. Responding officers noticed that she emanated a strong odor of alcohol and had slurred speech, and transported her to jail.

Found in the Free Times

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Chattanooga, TN
With the near-record high temperatures of the past few weeks, some people are being a bit creative in how they stay cool. A number of downtown residents and office workers have taken to cooling off by dipping their feet in the Miller Park fountain. However, one 52-year-old woman went a bit too far last week when she decided to take a bath in the fountain. In broad daylight. Nude. The woman was taken into custody after putting her clothes back on and has been charged with indecent exposure.

Found in the Chattanooga Pulse

Jupiter, FL
Just after 9 p.m., a deputy on patrol in the 17000 block of 132nd Drive North in Jupiter Farms saw a man driving down the middle of the road on a lawn mower. The 34-year-old driver was stopped and searched. His driver license was expired as of November 2005, he had less than 20 grams of marijuana and some hydrocodone tablets without a prescription. The driver was taken to a nearby hospital for an examination, and while there he hit a deputy. From the hospital the man was taken to the county jail.

Found in the Palm Beach Post