Small Town Misfit

Erie County, NY
A loose ostrich was reported running through the fields at Hunts-Corners Road.

Found in the Bee News

Taos, NM
4:38 p.m. Larceny, 710 Paseo del Pueblo Sur — Reporting party advised her dog died at the vet’s yesterday and someone picked it up. They said they were friends of the owner. She didn’t know who it was. Today her ex-husband called and said he was going to bury the dog and she wants it back.

Found in the Taos News

Hanover, NH
3:26 a.m., Occom Ridge Road
Hanover Police responded to a 9-1-1 emergency call when a 14-year-old female Hanover resident awoke to find a 21-year-old Dartmouth student beside her in bed. The student entered the unlocked private family residence and proceeded to the second floor where he entered the girl’s room. The subject allegedly removed his pants and climbed into bed with her. The intruder fled the scene after realizing the family had contacted the police. Alcohol was a factor in the event, according to Hanover Police.

Found in the Dartmouth Online

Anderson, SC
David Allen Rodgers, 42, was arrested Dec. 3 for driving while intoxicated — at the wheel of a float during the annual Christmas parade in Anderson, S.C. According to witnesses, Rodgers sped down Main Street in the Steppin’ Out Dance Studio float with 19 people aboard, ran a red light and led police on a three-mile chase.

Police said that when Rodgers finally stopped, they found an open container of alcohol in his truck. “I made a very bad judgment on my part,” Rodgers said at a court hearing.

Found in the Canton Rep

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Delray Beach, FL
Police saw a man put an unidentified white plastic container with wires coming out of it on top of a train rail near the Atlantic Avenue crossing and then saw the man walk into a bar. Police unsuccessfully tried to get the FEC to stop an approaching northbound train before it could strike the object. Police then saw the man leave the bar and asked him what the object was. He said, “An old printer, do you want me to get it,” as the train hit and demolished it.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Durango, CO
1:36 p.m.A man in the 900 block of Main Avenue, in an apartment above El Rancho, suspected that a neighbor has been printing money.He said that the noise from a possible money-printing machine as very loud.

Found in the Durango Herald

Nelsonville, OH
An early morning joy ride on a train engine — with the whistle blowing, ended back in juvenile detention for two boys who walked away from an unlocked detention home, authorities said.

The boys managed to start up the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway locomotive early Tuesday morning after breaking through a side door into the building that houses the engine, said Sgt. Edward Kurtz of Nelsonville police. No cars were attached to the engine that usually hauls tourists.

The tracks go by the windows of the city police station, and Hocking College police also noticed the engine rolling down the tracks.

“That’s very unusual. The train runs only on weekends,” Kurtz said.

He said the boys rode about 12 miles to Logan, blowing the train whistle and waking residents, stopping by a grocery store off U.S. 23, where Athens County sheriff’s deputies took them into custody.

Matthew Burks, 16, of Proctorville, and Zachary Walden, 13, of Portsmouth, are charged with juvenile counts of burglary, theft and escape, police said.

Burks, who had some knowledge of trains, was driving the engine, Kurtz said.

“He got it started and away they went,” he said.

The boys had walked away late Monday from Hocking Valley Community Residential Center in Nelsonville, where youths stay on the honor system instead of going to a state detention center after juvenile felony convictions, said Valerie Roth, assistant director.

Nelsonville is about 60 miles southeast of Columbus.

Found in the Akron Beacon Journal

Chadron, NE
9:00 p.m. Caller from East Third St. advised a male subject in a Minnesota Vikings jacket keeps coming to the front door claiming he lives there and acting as if he can push his way in.

Found in the Chadron Record

Taos, NM
3:23 p.m. 301 Linda Vista Ln. — Reporting party wants to report a squirrel that is dead by the Enos García School. The reason she wants to report this is because children start off killing animals and then they turn to people.

Found in the Taos News

Parma Heights, OH
A 29-year-old Independence Boulevard man faces felony domestic violence charges after his girlfriend told police he held a kitchen knife to her throat during a fight over a video game.

The 27-year-old woman told officers that she was vacuuming the couple’s apartment when she moved her boyfriend’s XBox video game. The man became enraged and struck the victim, later holding the knife to her neck in the kitchen.

The woman fled the apartment and was chased by the suspect into the parking lot. Police were called to the scene and arrested the man.

Found in the Parma Sun Post

Strongsville, OH
A man who grabbed a cell phone from the hand of a female driver in a parking lot has been ordered to apologize.

A report said the woman, 26, was backing out of a parking space at Borders Books & Music, 17200 Royalton Road, when the man began blowing his horn at her, then exited his car, walked over to hers, grabbed her arm and snatched the phone from her left hand.

Police contacted the man at his North Royalton home and told him to write an apology to the woman.

Found in the Sun Star

Savannah, GA
A man called police after he was attacked on Bernie Drive. Upon the arrival of an officer, the man said that he was standing in the “cut” urinating when a man called “Booger” called him a “faggot” and punched him in the mouth. The man refused to tell police why Booger had attacked him.

During further questioning, the man told police that Booger took $50 from him during the attack. The man then changed his story and said that Booger took nothing.

The man told police he would look for Booger later. He refused to give them any information about the attacker, other than he is called Booger. Police said the man smelled heavily of alcohol.

Found in Connect Savannah