Archive for the ‘Why I Love Local News’ Category
Police Blotter of the Day: Man wearing ‘I’m A Drunk’ T-shirt hits cop car, arrested for DWI
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A man wearing a T-shirt reading “I’m A Drunk” crashed into a police car early Thursday on Long Island and is being charged with driving while intoxicated, police said.
Kevin Daly, of Coram, N.Y., was driving a 2000 Saturn on County Road 83 at about 1:45 a.m. when he hit the patrol car.
The entire message on his T-shirt reads “I’m Not An Alcoholic, I’m A Drunk. Alcoholics Go to Meetings.”
(The police officer wasn’t hurt.)
Full story (AP via WNBC-TV of New York)
Police Blotter of the Day: Bay Area man accused of skinning, eating bobcat
Where I come from, that verb would be “applauded for.”
Investigators said the bobcat made five of Henry Arnibal’s 50 roosters into a tasty meal.
Arnibal was not pleased with the bobcat eating his roosters, so the Morgan Hill man shot the big cat with a .22-caliber rifle and turned the tables, Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Steve Lowney said.
Prosecutors said Arnibal used tools to skin the bobcat before eating it.
Eating a bobcat is not illegal, but it is against the law to kill one, Lowney said.
Prosecutors said Arnibal was high on methamphetamine when he killed and ate the bobcat.
Full story (KCRA-TV of Sacramento, Calif.)
Police Blotter of the Day: Woman kept crack pipe in Bible, cops say
… Tonya Levette Sutton, 42, was arrested late Sunday on narcotics possession and public consumption after she was spotted walking on a public street with an open container of Colt .45 malt liquor, according to an arrest report obtained by TCPalm.com.
Sutton was approached by officers and taken into custody, but when police searched her purse they made an unholy discovery.
Inside a small bible was a crack cocaine pipe that appeared used and had drug residue, the report said. …
Full story (WTVJ-TV of Miami)
Police Blotter of the Day: Credit card thief spends $717 at Burger King
Since Aug. 25, the thief used the card up to several times a day but at just one place: the Burger King at 175 N. Federal Highway in Boca Raton, near Mizner Park. That averages about $14 a day spent at the restaurant. …
In February, the Broward Sheriff’s Office was searching for a credit card thief with different cravings. That thief, nicknamed the “Marlboro man,” had been breaking into cars since 2008 to steal credit cards, which he then used to buy cartons of cigarettes.
Full story (South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Police Blotter of the Day: Woman calls in bomb threat so relatives won’t fly before 9/11
Federal prosecutors have charged a Long Island woman for calling in a fake bomb threat to a Southwest Airlines flight because she didn’t want her mother and brother to fly close to the 10th anniversary of 9/11. …
Purcell was charged Tuesday in Central Islip with a federal offense of making a false bomb threat over the phone. She was released on $200,000 bond. Coincidentally, it was her mother and brother who signed the bond — the same family members she was allegedly trying to keep grounded in Arizona.
Full story (NBC New York)
Right: Mary Purcell (Chris Glorioso/NBC New York)
Unfortunate Food Headline of the Day
Don’t think too hard about how that might be pronounced.
Why I Love Local News: Thousands of panties turn up along Ohio road
Berne Township officials were trying to figure out who abandoned about 3,000 pairs of panties along a road on Wednesday.
The panties were dumped near the intersection of Crawfis and Savage Hill roads, located southeast of Lancaster, 10TV’s Ashliegh Barry reported.
There were four dumping locations along a one mile stretch of Crawfis Road. …
“I came up and looked for myself and after I got here I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” said Jim Carmichael, Berne Township Trustee.
Full story (WBNS-TV of Columbus, Ohio)
Police Blotter of the Day: Carlisle man charged again for smuggling ribs in his pants
After going three months without getting in trouble, a Carlisle man was back in police custody Sunday afternoon after trying to steal a rack or ribs by sticking them in his pants.
Carlisle police said Donald Noone, 65, attempted to pull the same stunt on May 22 at the Giant on South Spring Garden Street.
Both times, Noone was found to be “highly intoxicated” when he tried to steal the meat, police said.
Full story (Carlisle, Pa., Sentinel)
Why I Love Local News: Bull semen forces closure of interstate ramp
Canisters of bull semen caused quite a scare on the on-ramp to Interstate 65 South Tuesday morning.
The canisters fell off a Greyhound bus just after 5 a.m. as the bus traveled around the curve of the ramp just south of downtown Nashville.
Fire and emergency crews were called to the scene amid reports of a foul odor. …
Officials traced the containers to Greyhound after finding bus tickets on the ground. The bus did not know it lost its load and had continued on. …
Greyhound said the sperm was stored in a separate compartment below the bus and not near the belongings of passengers.
Well, that’s a relief.
Full story (WKRN-TV of Nashville, Tenn.)
Police Blotter of the Day: 12-year-old cracks burglary case before cops
ATLANTA — A 12-year-old girl who attended a summer program at the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office that teaches youth how crime fighting works wasted no time putting the things she learned to good use.
Jessica Maple learned well enough to teach the pros.
Just as she attended a forensics class, someone burglarized the home of Jessica’s late, great-grandmother in Fitzgerald, Ga.
Jessica investigated, and found where the burglars broke in. The police had missed it. …
And then, believe it or not, she and her mom drove to the guy’s house and confronted him.
“And he said he did it,” said Jessica. …
At last check, police still haven’t made an arrest. …
“No, I don’t know what’s taking them so long,” said Jessica.
Full story (WSB-TV/Atlanta)
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