Small Town Misfit

Erie County, NY
A West Seneca Police Officer said two males were in local restaurant urinating all over the place. The officer said the two were escorted out. The two then went to another restaurant on Orchard Park Road.

Found in Bee News

Campbell, CA
11:30 p.m. A 35-year-old Saratoga man was seen drunk and attempting to get into his company truck in a restaurant parking lot on Camden Avenue. The man got out of his truck and began urinating by the truck, all under the careful observation of an animal control officer. When the man was confronted, he tried to urinate on the officer.

Found in the Campbell Reporter

Erie County, NY
A woman reported seeing a man wearing a monkey suit riding a bicycle on East Grand Blvd.

Found in Bee News

Boynton Beach, FL
An armed robbery occurred at a store in the 3200 block of Old Boynton Road. Two women were walking to their car in the parking lot of the store when a man whose face was covered and who was holding a hand gun approached them and demanded their purses. After they refused, the man removed his mask and said he was kidding. The man then ran to a newer model pickup, possibly charcoal gray with tinted windows and chrome tire rims, turned toward the victims and fired a shot into the air. Then he pointed the gun in the direction of the victims and fired a second round. He then fired a third round into the air as he was entering the truck. No one was injured.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Savannah, GA
A woman walking her dog at Wahlburg and Barnard streets observed a man trying to break into her car with a crow bar. She told him, “Dude, you better run.” The man brandished the crow bar and said, “Bring it on,” but the woman’s dog growled and he dropped the crow bar and ran. The woman flagged down a police officer. While she was talking to him, she observed the man come out of a lane and said, “That’s him.” The officer called for backup. When the suspect saw the officers arrive, he hesitated and was placed into custody.

Found in Connect Savannah

Here’s that photo I promised:

Does she look like a little misfit or what?

Durango, CO
3:32 p.m. An 18-year-old woman was being rude and not listening to her mother in the first block of East Sixth Avenue. She wouldn’t give her mother the phone.

Found in the Durango Herald

Grass Valley, CA
At 6:30 p.m., a caller from the 100 block of King Court reported that a person within the same residence was yelling at fair traffic on the block. The caller had also overheard that the same person had thrown a lawn mower at a passing vehicle.

Found in the Union

Winchester, MA
6:21 a.m. A microwave caught on fire in the Parkview apartments. When police spoke with the tenant whose microwave caught on fire, he appeared intoxicated and said that he had fallen asleep and woken to the smell of smoke and the fire alarm. The man said that he had made pasta with the microwave, but he then had eaten it and turned the microwave off. When police examined the microwave, they found that it had a toggle switch, meaning that the microwave would stay on until it was shut off, and they also found pasta near the microwave. The man then said it was possible that he had left the microwave on.

Found in Townonline.com

Jackson Hole, WY
Tom Brokaw, the veteran television news anchor for NBC, is used to the trappings of small-town life.

Despite his one-time profile as one of three of the most recognizable television anchors of his time, the newsman and the pride of tiny (population 2,000) Webster, South Dakota, seemingly never forgets his roots.

Not even when those roots take him, apparently, to Hot Springs County.

The (Thermopolis) Independent Record reported in its August 3 editions that Brokaw’s wallet was apparently found on Broadway Street, the newspaper reported.

Brokaw was on his way to a Cody ranch when his wallet disappeared, the paper reported, and retired city worker Carl Turnbaugh spotted the wallet with its contents strewn about the street.

“When I first saw it, driving along, I thought, ‘Hey, there’s a couple bucks,’” said Turnbaugh.

The wallet contained $319 and identification linking the wallet to the news anchor. A number in the wallet led to a Brokaw assistant and the items were forwarded to an address in Cody, the newspaper reported.

Found in the Jackson Hole Star Tribune

Mansfield, MA
2:16 p.m. - A Spring Street caller reported a neighbor having a loud party and a clown telling annoying stories through a loud speaker.

Found in the Mansfield News

Rio Grande, NM
12:47 a.m. - A Las Lomas Apartments resident said some children he did not know were getting drunk in his apartment and he was just trying to sleep.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun