Sunday, December 03, 2006

Stranger than Fiction

You can't make this shit up. We get a local little paper every couple of days. And in it they have the police activities:

I decided this latest batch was worth sharing.

Assaults- A 38-year-old employee was getting into her car after leaving work at the S--------- G-------, 411 Farwell Ave., when she was attacked by a woman. Witnesses said the assailant's daughter and cousin joined in the fray.
The suspect reportedly yelled, "You better stay away from my man" before attacking the victim, according to the report.
A security worker helped break up the assault. The victim suffered a bump to her forehead area.
Later on, the suspects allegedly went to the victim's home and broke a bunch of windows.

Assaults - A 10-year-old boy was assaulted by the aunt of a fellow classmate as he was walking home from Lincoln Center Elementary, on Nov. 17. Earlier that day, the victim got into an argument with a classmate (who is a year older than him) in which some minor pushing and shoving occurred.
After school, the boy's 17 year-old aunt drove up to him as he was walking home, questioned him about the assault and then slapped him in the face. A witness drove the boy back to school to report the incident.

Vandalism - A boy threw a hammer through a sleeping 18-year-old girl's bedroom window at a residence on the 400 block of 5th avenue at 9 a.m. Nov. 25th. The girl reportedly knows the suspect, who agreed to pay damages. No charges were pressed.

And saving the best for last:

Disturbances - Neighbors found a toddler wandering on a parking lot on the 1000 block of 8th ave. S at 1:15 a.m. Nov. 22. Upon returning the boy home, officers discovered a 36-year-old male babysitter asleep on the floor, high on meth. His head was in a bowl of noodles.
Police tracked down the boy's mother at a local bar. They later turned over the boy and a 1-year-old girl.
Neighbors reported a similar disturbance not too long ago, in which the boy wandered into the family's garage and became trapped when a door closed behind him. Neighbors heard him crying loudly and called the police.
A report of the latest incident was forwarded to Child Protective Services.

So which part of that story disturbed you the most? Cause Damn!

5 comments:

steve said...

"His head was in a bowl of noodles."

I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall of that living room to see the sequence of events leading up to that. How f'd up on meth do you have to be to end up with your head in a bowl of noodles?

Anonymous said...

Hey! -- Digital Janitor commented on what I found most disturbing too -- the fact that the news reporter found it relevant to report on the bowl of noodles. LOL I mean, WTF? LOL!

Also, how did the police know where the toddler lives? Did he have his I.D. with him or ???

Thanks for sharing these. People are mega-weird.

PS - Can anyone make you a header / banner and you'll use it? I think it would be fun to put one together. What size do you prefer?

Jay said...

"So which part of that story disturbed you the most? Cause Damn!"

Probably the part we're going to hear about next. You know, where we hear that the state decides to just return the kids to the drunk mother.

Newt said...

Digital: No kidding, as a cop you just have to think "You have got to be kidding me."

Chelle: I'm all for banners from people. Tink has made them for me at 700x200 (ish). Which seems to work great. I have yet to figure out all the wonders that photo shop has to offer.

Jay: This is why our friends are convinced the hubster and I will somehow end up with kids. A situation like this, I want so much to just take them and get them out of that house. They don't stand a chance with the mother they have.

Tink said...

Omg. That last one goes on my list with the baby in the microwave and the seven yr. old being hit in the head with a hammer. WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? I don't know if I want to read the news anymore.