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Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Dec. 17) 

Parking wars and other violence

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Unlucky Management: at an Uptown 7-Eleven filed a police report last week after finding that one of the employees had been looking to leave the job for a while. The owner of the store told police that she found that the employee had stolen $900 worth of Ultimate Millions lottery tickets throughout the time of her employment. None of them, it seems, were winners. It would only take one, though.

Bear Grylls: Elementary school can be a hard time for children. It often feels for students as if they may not survive the day. This feeling got one such child in trouble at Steele Creek Elementary School last week. The kid was found by administration to be carrying a "plastic survival tool," which was confiscated as a weapon because of its sharp metal edge.

Parking Wars: A 66-year-old woman called police after getting into it with another woman in a Ballantyne parking lot. The victim told officers the suspect was putting her child in her vehicle when she unintentionally damaged the victim's car. When the victim tried to nicely confront her about this, the suspect became enraged and began intentionally damaging the car. In an unrelated incident, a woman returned to her car in an Uptown parking garage last week and found a witness who had seen someone back into the car four times. When the witness tried to get the offender's attention, he told her he knew what was happening and didn't care, then drove off.

The Basics: A man was arrested at a Walmart in west Charlotte last week after trying to leave the store with the simplest of dinners. Security stopped the man and found that he was trying to leave with two bottles of Miller High Life, a pack of bologna and a Budweiser Lime-A-Rita... ya know, for dessert.

Nothing To See: While police are often privy to the clever hiding spots and false containers people use to hide weed in, sometimes the job is just easy for them. During a traffic stop near South End last week, police found a suspect's marijuana in a conspicuous case that said "Chronic Doobtube" down the side of it.

Hybrid: A 23-year-old woman learned a hard lesson about the limits of fuel alternatives last week when someone vandalized her car. The victim told officers that someone poured maple syrup into her gas tank overnight, and she didn't know it until her Jeep Liberty stalled half way to work the next day.

Lean Back: A 58-year-old woman became quite the hero after barricading herself against a home invader last week in her east Charlotte, even if she didn't mean to. The woman told officers she and her husband were sitting at home when someone tried to come in the back door, but was blocked by the chair she was sitting in. She tried to lean back further to shut the door and the intruder tried to push further. After this awkward — and surely terrifying — encounter, the woman was able to get the door shut and the suspect ran off.

Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.

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