Small Town Misfit

Rio Grande, NM
12:28 p.m. — A suspicious bald man was sitting on the bank of a ditch, a caller said. The caller said the man had been sitting there for a couple of hours. The man advised police, “he sits there and ponders life.”

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Delray Beach, FL
Police found a man scratching himself and twitching as he huddled in the corner of an abandoned building in the first block of Southwest 12th Avenue. An officer asked the man when was the last time he smoked crack and the man told him “a long time ago, like 30 minutes.” He was arrested after the officer found a crack pipe in the man’s pocket.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Taos, NM
7:18 p.m. Vandalism, 710 Paseo del Pueblo Sur — Reportant advised someone flattened all of their shopping carts at the north end, must have been a monster truck or something.

Found in the Taos News

Wadsworth, OH
Police charged a Main Street man, 50, with using weapons while intoxicated Thanksgiving day.

According to police reports, a man approached a police cruiser at the corner of Pine Street and South Lyman shortly before 5 p.m. Nov. 23. He told police about a suspicious man wearing a black trench coat and black hat he saw near Miller Field approaching younger teen girls.

The police officer went to the park and found the girls who said the man told them he used to do drugs and that if they ever needed anything, they could call him. That frightened them. According to the police report, the girls told the officer that the man was acting strangely, and that is why they decided to leave the park.

After exiting the police cruiser, the officer said he smelled alcohol on the suspect. When the officer asked for identification information, the man reached into his inside coat pocket and the officer saw a small bulge in the waistband of the man’s pants.

The officer asked the man if he had anything illegal on him or any weapons. The man told the officer he had a gun. The officer had the subject remain still with his hands up in the air while the weapon was retrieved.

The small revolver in a holster was loaded.

The Main Street resident did have a permit to carry a concealed weapon. He told police he had about 12 beers, and he knew he was not allowed to have a gun on his person while he was intoxicated. The man was handcuffed and put into the police car.

The man was irate and told police he would never help another kid again. The officer responded that the man was not in trouble for talking to kids, but because he was intoxicated and carrying a weapon. The man said he knew he was wrong and he understood, but nothing would have happened if he had not stopped to talk to the teens. The man posted bond, and police kept his gun.

Found in the Sun Banner Pride

Taos, NM
1:09 p.m. NM 68 mile marker 22/23 — Male subject threw a rock at a semi and broke the windshield, then was exposing himself to passing motorist. Agency assist.

Found in the Taos News

Waynesboro, GA
The owner of Applewood Golf Course reported damage to his 12th hole in the tune of $1,000.

According to an incident report filed last Saturday, an unknown driver spoiled the fairway and green when he apparently used the course as a shortcut to a nearby apartment.

Deputies followed the tire tracks through the sand trap to a parked vehicle outside a residence but could not get anyone to answer at the door. The case remains under investigation.

Found in the True Citizen

Delray Beach, FL
A woman told police that her housekeeper’s husband rang her door bell in the 600 block of C High Point Boulevard and after she answered the door, he walked in, went into her bedroom, took her paper shredder and then walked out the back door.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Taos, NM
11:23 a.m. 420 Paseo del Pueblo Sur — Reportant and his girlfriend went to Wendy’s about 10-10:30 last night for dinner, his girlfriend was eating a salad and found tiny worms in her food. They called dispatch and spoke to an officer; stated the officer was very rude and he did nothing. Request to speak to an officer and show them the salad, will come to the office.

Found in the Taos News

Delray Beach, FL
Two women, who were taking a cigarette break behind their place of business in the 200 block of West Atlantic Avenue, told police that a man had approached them, started taking cigarette butts out of the container next to them and told them he was Muhammad Ali and that he would fight people for cigarettes.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Erie County, NY
An Orchard Park resident reported that someone dumped ramen noodles in their hot tub.

Found in Bee News

Lakewood, OH
At 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 22, an Elmwood Avenue shop owner called police to report that someone had left a very large fish outside the main door of the shop.

Found in the Lakewood Sun Post

Point Reyes, CA
A woman reported a man in his 40s walking on Wharf Road was disturbing people with a “maniacal cackle.” A deputy spotted the man, who was cackling as he walked up a hill, and checked his identification.

Found in the Point Reyes Light