Small Town Misfit

Rio Grande, NM
10:28 p.m. — A Calle del Pajarito caller said there was a dead person at his house, but then changed his story and said he wanted to speak to an officer who was at his house earlier. Dispatch confirmed with the caller that there was no dead body, and an officer checked the residence and found no criminal activity.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Charlotte, NC
A visitor at someone’s home asked to use the restroom but did not really need to go. Instead he went into the victim’s room and stole $9,000 out of the garbage can. Trash raiding, no matter how lucrative, is not really a crime.

Found in Creative Loafing

Orange County, CA
A man told police he was in the drive-thru of McDonald’s on Beach Boulevard on a bicycle around 2 a.m. Thursday when two men in a pickup truck in front of him tried to run him over.

The truck went into reverse and the man said he had to jump off the bike to avoid being hit. Then, he said, the two got out of the truck, threw his mangled bicycle over a wall into the parking lot of Comfort Suites and hit a parked car, stole his bag and drove away.

Found in the Orange County Register

Chico, CA
1:09 a.m. Suspicious subject reported on the 1400 block of Yosemite Drive. “Subject on the side of the road tried to jump into the back of reporting party’s truck … subject had stripped naked … he had gone into the roadway and was bending over, mooning them. She had to drive around him.”

Found in the Orion

Erie County, PA
A taxi driver called police after a man refused to pay him cab fare. The suspect had asked for a ride to Wegmans, then said he would pay the driver later, when they got to Buffalo. A patrol arrived at Wegmans. When the suspect exited the cab, the officer noticed something in the man’s left pant leg. There were 29 Funsaver cameras, which he had apparently shoplifted from Wegmans. The suspect was placed under arrest.

Found in Bee News

Framingham, MA
A Framingham man continued his unruly behavior at the police station after he was arrested for a disturbance Sunday, police said.

Sandro Romero, 31, stripped off his clothes and mooned a police officer during booking, suggesting that the officer wanted to perform a sexual act on him, police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany said.

Romero was so combative an officer had to hold the arrested man’s head in place just so another officer could take his mug shot.

Found in the Metrowest Daily News

Atlanta, GA
An officer was patrolling Springdale Road. He said a man came up to his patrol car and said, “Boo!” The officer asked: “Do you have any illegal drugs on you?” “No,” the man said. The officer asked: “Can I search you?” “Yes,” the man said. So the officer searched him and found .4 grams of suspected marijuana in the man’s pocket. The man, age 24, went to jail.

Found in Creative Loafing

Lakewood, OH
A group of people walking around wearing makeup that looked like blood were harassing people at 2:26 p.m. at Detroit and Cove avenues, according to a caller. Police checked and said the people were filming a “zombie movie for the Red Cross.”

Found in the Lakewood Sun Post

Grass Valley, CA
9 a.m. — A man from the 300 block of First Street reported that when he went to check on a residence that was supposed to be vacant, he found a woman in the bathroom. She left out the window.

Found in the Union