Multiple Personalities: Police responded to a restaurant bar in Charlotte Douglas International Airport because a young girl couldn’t handle her liquor. The teenager was visibly intoxicated. When she was asked to show identification, the girl pulled out four different licenses stating that she was over 21. The problem was that none of the IDs depicted the same person and none of them depicted the girl in question. Police took the girl away but also charged the bartender with serving an underage person and serving an intoxicated person.

Everybody’s Ass: A 33-year-old woman called police after a man threatened her (and everyone else, ever) in a Northlake Mall parking lot. The woman told officers that the suspect told her, “If I touch you it’s hard to tell what you will say. Then I would have to kick your ass, their ass, the judge’s ass and everybody’s ass.”

From the Back: Most police reports regarding motorcycles hitting cars do not end well for the motorcyclist. But one got very lucky last week and decided not to stick around to push that luck. A woman driving down Idlewild Road told police that a motorcyclist smashed into the rear of her Toyota Scion. The man flew through the air and smashed his head into the door of another man’s Toyota Corolla. He somehow found the strength to get back on his bike and drive off before police arrived.

Kids Behaving Badly: A CMS bus driver filed a police report after claiming that someone threw something at him while he was driving. A kid on the bus later confessed to throwing an orange that struck the driver on the back of the head. In a separate incident, a 15-year-old girl at Garinger High School was handed over to police after she decided to take the day off. Upon her return before afternoon buses left, school administrators said she was reeking of alcohol.

Royal Rumble: Police were dispatched to a local CVS pharmacy last week after a fight broke out in the parking lot. Officers found four people involved in the skirmish. The resulting report gets confusing, with victim No. 4 being struck by suspect No. 2 and victim No. 2 (who is also suspect No. 2) being struck by…you get the point. The report gets even more perplexing toward the end, when one victim reports being attacked with a walking crutch and another claims to have been assaulted with a guitar.

Sure, buddy: A 52-year-old man filed a police report after believing he had been drugged by a woman. The man told officers he’d met an online friend in real life and later became convinced that she had drugged him with cocaine. The man told police that he had no contact information and that they probably wouldn’t find her because she had already returned to Texas, where she lives.

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

Ryan Pitkin began his journalism career at Creative Loafing as an intern, later becoming the writer of CL's satirical column, The Blotter, and recently became the News Editor. Other publications he has...

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