Small Town Misfit

Boerne, TX

Found in the Boerne Star

Mukilteo, WA
A caller reported that his son stole his digital camera and traded it for a used car. The case is under investigation.

Found in the Mukilteo Beacon

Morgan County, GA
On August 16 a larceny from auto complaint was filed at a Eatonton Road department store after a woman reported that while she was in the store someone entered her 1994 Honda Accord and took two bags of items she had recently purchased. Included in the bags were a container of strawberry frosting, cake mix, cloves of garlic, two packs of cupcakes, a loaf pan, a plastic Kool-Aid pitcher with cups and three movies including: “Subject Two,” “Bring It On Again,” and “Scary Movie.”

Found in the Morgan County Citizen

Erie County, NY
Police stopped a vehicle on Clinton Street because only one headlight was functioning. A DMV check showed that the driver’s license was suspended for an insurance lapse in August 2004 and the plates were expired and had been switched from another vehicle. The vehicle also had a homemade registration on the windshield.

Found in Bee News

Columbia, SC
A 47-year-old man wielding a 3-foot metal pipe dropped through the ceiling of a First Citizens Bank on Aug. 11 and demanded money. He fled on foot and was apprehended two blocks from St. Julian’s Place.

Found in the Free Times

North Olmstead, OH
A 25-year-old Cleveland woman was cited for disorderly conduct after an incident Aug. 15 at Wal-Mart.

Police were called to the store about 11 a.m. to investigate a disturbance. The police chief was talking to the woman, who was sitting in her car and yelling and swearing at him. When police tried to talk to her, she began yelling and said she did nothing wrong except whoopin on her son.

When asked why she did that and she replied, because I’m his mother and I can do what I want. The son appeared fine and did not have any marks on his face or neck.

Police spoke with an employee, who said the woman was yelling and cursing at her son and screaming obscenities at him. Several people tried to calm the woman down, but the woman started yelling and swearing at them. The woman was released at the scene after being cited for disorderly conduct.

Found in the Sun News

Lockport, NY
Stephen C. Payne, 32, 9272 Ridge Road, Hartland, was charged Sunday morning with disorderly conduct. Deputies responded to his home after his mother called from her home and said Payne was allegedly drunk and out of control. The report said deputies found Payne in his front yard, reportedly upset that his mother told him to quiet down and go to sleep. Deputies asked him several times to be quiet and stop swearing, which he did for a few seconds each time. Payne also allegedly went in his home and turned his stereo on at full volume. He was held in lieu of $100 and will appear Tuesday in Hartland Town Court.

Found in the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal

Atlanta, GA
An old man called police and reported riots and a fire at a grocery store on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. When police arrived, the old man was standing in front of the grocery store, kicking and hitting a trash can with his cane. Plus, the old man was trying to hit people who were going in and out of the store. Also, the old man was loudly cursing. The old man was arrested for disorderly conduct.

Found in Creative Loafing

Rio Grande, NM
4:58 a.m. - A Santo Niño Lane woman reported that a man had challenged his entire family to a fight and was presently hitting his mother.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Lakewood, OH
Neighbors were arguing about who gets to park in front of a Hopkins Avenue residence. Police said neither was willing to give in or act like an adult and both were advised they shouldn’t be driving anyway, since both had their licenses suspended.

Found in the Lakewood Sun

Durango, CO
9:29 p.m. A man dressed in a white T-shirt and white shorts, who appeared to have his ankles shackled, was jogging in 600 block of East Sixth Avenue.

Found in the Durango Herald

Grass Valley, CA
At 4:06 p.m., a caller from the 12000 block of Hilltop Terrace to report a juvenile girl did not return from school and had told numerous people she was going to run away. She may have been heading to Boise, Idaho, for a fair with “James,” a carnival worker.

Found in the Union