The local Bee newspapers all have a police blotter section of calls that people make to 911. Some of these calls are interesting. My favorites among the best of the calls highlighted in 2011 are:
- An Amherst resident told police that she saw gold-colored aliens in the distance on Chestnut Ridge Road. She told officers that the aliens were sitting in a parked vehicle with red and yellow flashing lights.
- A woman called police complaining that firefighters responding to a fire alarm in her house wouldn’t remove their boots.
- A man called police because his wife’s car was blocking his in the driveway and she refused to move it.
- A woman reported that her 16 year old child stole her credit card and used it to buy a car.
- A 911 hang up call turned out to be a 5 year old trying to call the Easter Bunny.
- A man said that as he exited his driveway, his neighbor , who was on a tractor gave him the finger.
- A resident reported that someone keeps stuffing a hair weave into her vehicle’s muffler.
- A resident reported that there was a suspicious man driving a lawnmower in her backyard. The woman’s husband had apparently hired a lawn service but had neglected to tell his wife.
- A man reported that his girlfriend slept until 2 and hadn’t fed him.
- A man wearing only his underwear was seen walking over a thruway bridge carrying a gas can.
Which one of these is your favorite? Some where tonight police will be responding to interesting calls like the above. Happy New Year!
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Why am I commenting at 3 AM on New Years? Well, something for the police blotter: we finally had to call the cops on the house across street. People in the street w/drums, noisemakers, car horns. Glad that house is for sale!
I have to admit that reading police blotters is a guilty pleasure. On the rare occasions I’m in the ‘burbs I always try to pick up a Bee and enjoy checking it out. Closer to home, the Black Rock/Riverside paper has them for the NW part of the city — not always as funny as the suburban blotters.
Thoughts:
* Except for the fact that she doesn’t live in range of any Bee papers, I’d swear the firefighters-not-removing-boots call was from my mother.
* You know the call about the kid buying A CAR on his (gotta be a boy, right?) mother’s credit card could only come from the ‘burbs.
* If someone NON-YOU is mowing your lawn for you, don’t call the cops!! Give him a beer and tell him he’s welcome to come back anytime!
* Guys should feed their girlfriends, not vice-versa. Problem solved.
Will it get crazier in 2012?? Well, we’re about to find out! Happy New Years, Paul!
May I recommend the Niagara Gazette? Online version also carries their blotter. My favorites are the car break ins where 3 laptops, 40 or 50 dvd’s, and a large amount of cash and jewelry are taken.