Small Town Misfit

Charleston, SC
Officers responded to a call complaining of a loud pool party on Center Street in Folly Beach on July 6, according to a public safety report.

When officers arrived, they found five people around the pool and two men in it, one of whom was nude.

The naked 26-year-old man was asked to get out of the pool and get dressed. He had trouble standing when he got out, put on a towel and said with slurred speech that he was not nude, reports say.

The man was issued a ticket for disorderly conduct and was given a court date.

Found in the Post and Courier

Charleston, SC
A man apparently wanted to re-enact a scene from “Baywatch” at Folly Beach on July 3.

According to a public safety report, a 25-year-old man took a lifeguard board used for water rescues from a lifeguard post in front of the Folly Beach Holiday Inn. He then ran into the water with it, despite several lifeguards yelling for him to stop.

They went into the water and chased him, but the man got off the surfboard and swam away. Reporting officers arrived just as the man returned to the Holiday Inn.

The man said, “It was all a joke,” and that he was trying to impress some girls. Officers told him that he was putting other people’s lives in danger if lifeguards needed the board to rescue a person in distress.

The man was charged with petit larceny.

Found in the Post and Courier

Charleston, SC
Police were called to a Palm Boulevard home to investigate loud music on June 13. An officer noticed smoke coming from the pool area and walked to the pool gate and saw a 39-year-old woman covered with a sheet or towel and lying on a lounge chair. When the officer tried to get her attention, she stood up and jumped into the pool naked. The officer told her she needed to turn the music down, and then her husband came outside “using profanity” and ordered his dogs to attack police, the report said. More officers arrived and tried to get the woman’s name and birth date so they could write her a ticket for noise, but she gave a fake name.

Then the husband yelled, “Leave my wife alone. She has no clothes on,” the report said. The man also told officers that he was calling his attorney and repeatedly told police to get off his property. Police left and planned to mail tickets to the home, the report said.

Found in the Post and Courier

Thanks for your patience!

In the meantime:

Goleta Valley, CA
The young man who tried to run from his taxi fare accidentally left one valuable piece of information in the back seat of the cab: his driver’s license.

The 25-year-old dork hailed the ride from downtown Santa Barbara to Isla Vista, then fled on foot when it came time to pay for his ride.

In an effort to recover the money lost, authorities suggested the taxi driver send a bill to the address listed on the license.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

See you August 1!

Hey guys, sorry for the slowdown. We’ll be back shortly, and with a vengeance. Just taking care of some backend stuff. In the meantime, go do some crazy stuff so we can find it in the police blotters!

Travis

Columbia, SC
A 41-year-old woman told officers on June 24 that someone took about 5 gallons of gasoline from her car. And there was some brown stuff around the gas cap that looked like melted chocolate.

Found in the Free Times

Rio Grande, NM
1:29 p.m. — A Starlighter Loop caller said a man came over to fix his truck and ended up going on a joy ride while he was drunk and wrecked it to where it was undriveable. Española Police transferred her call to another agency.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Rio Grande, NM
6:45 p.m. — An El Llano caller said while he was driving down North McCurdy Road, someone shot a paintball at his passenger, hitting him in the lip. The victim did not require medical attention, but police took a report for battery.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Rio Grande, NM
1:33 p.m. — A caller said a man was asleep in a car on Bond Street, but he was stepping on the accelerator while Chihuahuas escaped from his car. Police found the intoxicated man running around Vietnam Veterans Park chasing his Chihuahuas; a sober driver picked him up.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Atlanta, GA
At Underground Atlanta, a 32-year-old man said his friend “Suicide” called him over to where he was standing. He said Suicide punched him, while another man nicknamed “Kill Quick” held him down. He said Suicide and Kill Quick stole six DVD movies from him and ran away.

Found in Creative Loafing

Atlanta, GA
On Roswell Road, a 56-year-old woman said her neighbor sprayed bright purple powder on her front door, flowerpots and stairs. She said the incident stemmed from a spat at a homeowners association meeting the day before. According to the woman, her neighbor screamed at her and almost assaulted her at the meeting. Then, around midnight, the neighbor showed up at her home, she said. The woman said she asked the neighbor to leave — and that’s when the neighbor got busy with the purple powder and vandalized her home. She said the female neighbor is known for erratic behavior.

Found in Creative Loafing

Grass Valley, CA
10:53 a.m. - A man from the 16000 block of Greenhorn Road reported being assaulted by his son. The man and his son got into a verbal argument about what television program they were going to watch. When the man said he was going to pick the program, his son got up and began pulling the wires out of the back of the television. When the man tried to stop him, his son punched him on the mouth causing two cuts on the inside of the lower lip. The son fled the residence before officers arrived.

Found in the Union