Small Town Misfit

Erie County, NY
Seven pairs of underpants were taken from the laundry on Raintree Island. All had names on them and days of the week.

Found in Bee News

Point Reyes Station, CA
Two deputies on foot patrol saw a man run onto a patrol car, crushing its windshield, and then keep running over its top and trunk as well as a second patrolcar parked behind. Officers chased the runner and caught him within a block. He was arrested on charges of vandalizing the patrolcar’s windshield and of resisting arrest.

Found in the Point Reyes Light

Atlanta, GA
A PLANE bound for Cleveland taxied back to the gate at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The pilot told police that he wanted a passenger arrested for interfering with the flight crew. Apparently, a passenger had put a paper towel in a lighting fixture over his seat because some condensation was dripping from the lighting fixture and onto him. A flight attendant told him not to do that because it was a fire hazard, and removed the paper towels.

Later, another flight attendant said the man had stuffed a blanket in the light fixture. The man got upset and asked for a new seat. The flight attendant told the pilot that he was having problems with a passenger. The plane was headed to a runway, but the pilot turned around and headed back to the gate. The pilot insisted that police arrest the man. So the man was removed from the plane. Police contacted an FBI agent, who said he wouldn’t bring charges against the man because it was an FAA violation. No charges were filed, and the man was allowed to leave.

Found in Creative Loafing

Chattanooga, TN
A woman said she returned to her home on Jefferson Street and found the water was not working.

An examination showed someone had gone into the crawl space underneath the house and stolen the copper pipes.

Found in the Chattanoogan

Point Reyes Station, CA
A resident reported that a man had sat in his car all day, then had turned his radio up full blast and driven into a tree. The man left on foot but was found on Bear Valley Road.

Found in the Point Reyes Light

Columbia, SC
A man said he parked his 2005 GMC Sierra on a boat ramp at 10:20 p.m. Thursday. When he got in the truck to turn it around, he thought the vehicle was in reverse, but as he pushed the gas pedal, the truck lunged forward. He was able to get out before the truck went into the river and stopped about 100 yards from the ramp.

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Atlanta, GA
A MAN walked into a hotel in downtown Atlanta, went into the restroom, and tried to steal 27 rolls of toilet paper. He put the rolls into a large black plastic bag. When police stopped him, the man said he took the toilet paper because he cleans restrooms and his friend told him that he, too, takes toilet paper from this hotel. The man was arrested for shoplifting. The 27 rolls are worth $30.

Found in Creative Loafing

Grass Valley, CA
At 1:36 a.m., a woman called from Indian Springs Road at McCourtney Road to report a man was hitting his head on a tree as she passed several times. Deputies were unable to locate the man.

Found in the Union

Joseph, OR
In the eastern Oregon town of Joseph recently, passersby gave an injured deer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after it was hit by a vehicle.

Wallowa County Detective Neil Rogers recounts the story.

Rogers says when he got there, a crowd of people were pulling a deer from beneath a trailer.

The deer was badly hurt but managed to get up and stumble away.

Rogers said when he parked his cruiser — one member of the crowd was giving the deer compressions to start its heart — and another was giving it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Rogers said he could barely look at the scene because he was starting to laugh too hard.

But the deer was too injured to survive. Rogers took the deer behind a building and shot it.

Rogers said he didn’t know the would-be rescuer and speculated he wasn’t a local — but perhaps from Portland.

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Erie County, NY
Troopers responded to a panic alarm at a Transit Road business. The clerk didn’t know what the button under the counter was for; the clerk pushed it, activating the alarm.

Found in Bee News

Grass Valley, CA
At 6:16 p.m., a caller from the 100 block of West Berryhill Drive reported three juveniles were kicking what appeared to be a dead animal and were trying to put it in a bag. Police made contact with the juveniles, and the item was not a dead animal. They had dressed up a dummy and were making a film.

Found in the Union

Rocky River, OH
After fleeing police in his car and causing an accident, a 19-year-old Cleveland man ran home to tell his mom he was going to jail.

While doing traffic detail about 11 a.m. July 6 on Interstate 90 near Detroit Road, officers ran the plates of a black 1998 Ford Contour heading east. The car had stickers on it that expired in July, but after running the plates, it showed the plates really expired in November and belonged to a 1990 Toyota.

Police tried to stop the car and the driver pulled into the berm of the slow lane, but did not stop. The car then accelerated up to 90 miles per hour and pulled out into traffic and fled police. The car changed lanes and cut off several cars before the driver exited at West 150th Street and Warren Road.

The car headed south on Warren and nearly hit a blue car in the process. As the driver attempted to cross the intersection of West 140th Street and Lorain Road, he hit a beige Lincoln and a green Geo and spun around. No one was injured in the crash.

A man dressed all in black ran out of the car and headed east on Lorain. He jumped a fence, then crossed a yard on Berwyn Avenue before running east on West 141st Street. A witness told police the man ran west, passing two to three houses before going into a house on the south side of Berwyn.

Police found the man, Christopher S. Kelly, in the driveway of his house. Police ordered him to the ground and handcuffed him. Kelly told police he only ran to the house to tell his mom that he was going to jail. He also told police he ran because he knew he did not have a license and did not think the officer would chase him.

Kelly was arrested for felony fleeing, expired plates, driving under suspension, reckless operation and suspicious plates. He was released on bond.

Found in the Sun News