Small Town Misfit

Tracy, CA
4:14 p.m.: Someone reported a man walking along Central Avenue near 10th Street smoking marijuana from a bong. He was gone when police arrived.

Found in the Tracy Press

Middleburg Heights, OH
Police were summoned to Ganley Chrysler, Jeep Plymouth last week to deal with a complaint of an assault brought on by high-pressure sales tactics, according to a police report.

According to the report, the victim and her son went to the dealership on Pearl Road last week looking for a used car. The woman thought the price and costs were high, so she started to leave, but the manager came and attempted to finish the sale.

She reportedly gave the salesman permission to determine her car’s trade-in value and looked at rates, but said both men attempted to pressure her. Throughout the course of the evening, she said she repeatedly told the manager and salesman she did not want to purchase a car. She did not sign a contract and asked for her car as she was leaving, but was told the plates had already been removed.

The manager came out and said it was a done deal. Her son and the manager argued and eventually got into a scuffle. Another salesman tried to intervene and his hand was injured. He declined medical attention, but said he wanted to file a complaint for assault, but was seen by police completing what appeared to be another sale and had not started the complaint.

The manager told police there was a verbal agreement and that he didn’t need a signed contract. He reportedly told police that he was not giving the car back, that he wasn’t concerned about the woman’s belongings in the car or how she and her son would leave the lot.

Another employee eventually gave the car back.

Found in the News Sun

Avon, OH
Massive snowfall last week prompted many Avon residents to call police to complain if their street wasn’t plowed to their liking, but a Detroit Road man complained that plows were working too hard. The man called police at 3 a.m. Friday to ask that a truck driver put his plow to rest at the Avon Post Office. Police reminded the sleep-deprived man that the city’s noise ordinance doesn’t apply to snow removal.

Found in the Sun Post

Durango, CO
2 p.m. A man wearing a black cowboy hat and cowboy attire urinated on the Coldwell Banker building in the 700 block of Main Avenue.

Found in the Durango Herald

Rio Grande, NM
8:51 p.m. — Two men with shaved heads were drag racing, a Sandy Lane caller said. The caller also said his neighbor died recently and the same people who were drag racing also turned on his dead neighbor’s water spigot. The caller said the drag racers had also stolen cones the city water department put around a hole.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Baltimore, MD
At approximately 6:13 p.m. a LCPD officer observed a taxi cab obstructing the free flow of traffic next to the Newman Towers parking lot. The officer approached the cab and made contact with the driver. The driver was instructed to move his vehicle. He refused and informed the officer that he would not move his vehicle, courtesy of a few unsavory expletives. The officer ignored the slurs and repeated the request. The driver responded angrily and the officer called for assistance.

When the second officer arrived the driver continued his ranting. The subject matter of his tirade shifted from profanity to a direct statement which he repeated numerous times, “I hate America.” This continued for several minutes until the officers on the scene issued a trespass notice to the driver. The driver was then escorted off of campus.

Found in the Loyola Grehound

Tracy, CA
4:26 p.m.: Someone told police that a man who had just finished some yard work jumped over a fence, took off all his clothes and jumped into an irrigation ditch.

Found in the Tracy Press

Rio Grande, NM
2:15 p.m. — Century Bank said a man came into the bank and started asking strange questions about where the vault was.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Tracy, CA
A person in northwest Tracy called police at 6:48 p.m. and said that a 46-year-old man who lives nearby had just shot the family’s television. The man’s wife and son went to the neighbor’s house to get away.

Police said that the man is a former security guard and owns a Ruger .357-caliber revolver. He left the house in a white Dodge Caravan.

Police made a high-risk stop, then learned that the man had left the gun at his house.

Police arrested the man on suspicion of domestic violence and negligent discharge of a firearm. Officers also confiscated his gun.

Found in the Tracy Press

Appleton, WI
A man living in the 200 block of Olde Pulley Lane reported that someone had entered his apartment and stolen the frozen chicken patties out of his freezer. He said he had just purchased them from Wal-Mart and knew they were in there. Nothing else was reported missing.

Found in the Appleton Post

Durango, CO
10:34 p.m. Someone reported a couple were possibly having sex in the flower bed at the Bank of Colorado, at 12th Street and Main Avenue. Police responded and determined the couple simply were lying in the flowers kissing.

Found in the Durango Herald

Chico, CA
3:45 p.m. Sex fondle/battery reported on the 1400 block of Neal Dow Avenue. “Suspects gave victim a ‘wedgie,’ pulled up her underwear.”

Found in the Orion