IN-AND-OUT: Remember the days of drive-thru beer service? Ah, the golden ages. One local guy devised his own convenient booze delivery system. The man popped into an ABC store, grabbed a bottle of vodka while still in the doorway and ran out the way he came.
MILLER TIME: Sometimes you’ve got to have a drink. Sometimes that urge overwhelms you even when you’re in the beer aisle of the grocery store. One man decided such and was given a citation after he popped open a can while in the store.
STALKING LESSON: A quick PSA: If you’re stalking someone and they drive to the cops headquarters, you might want to fall back. Discretion is key here. One man, after threatening to find and kill a woman, followed her car and drove as if he wanted to run her off the road. She drove to the police department, and he continued behind her into the parking lot. The police had to tell him to leave several times before he took off.
DETAILS, DETAILS: It’s important to list all that’s stolen when your car’s broken into. So thought one woman when she called, nearly six hours after reporting her daughter’s car stolen, to add another important, high-dollar item to the lost inventory. That item? A pack of smokes.
SCOTTER DRAMA: You need a date for the weekend? Might want to skip the guy you took out a restraining order against, or else you could end up like one woman, who had a helmet thrown at her when her date rode off in his scooter.
THREAT OF THE WEEK: One person offered an innovative incentive to someone behind on his bills. “It would be in your best interest to pay the last bill,” he told the debtor. “If you don’t, we will do something to the property so you won’t have any grass.”
Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte Police Department.
This article appears in Aug 1-7, 2007.
