* Bricks for Brains: A Charlotte mother came under fire in her own home, when several bricks came hurtling through several windows, narrowly missing her. It seems that her evicted son didn’t take the boot so well and decided to let her know it.
* Smooth Operator: Yet another lover’s dispute turned ugly, resulting in physical harm. This time a man came home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man. Understandably, the jilted boyfriend became upset and threw an aerosol can at his girlfriend. The can hit the woman and cut her on the hip. The boyfriend then attacked the Jezebel, punching her in the face and attempting to choke her. The man was soon arrested and led away by police.
* Wrong Number: A misinformed caller became hostile when he called the wrong number. A man called and asked to speak with someone who did not live at that residence; the woman who answered the phone told the man that the person didn’t live at that number and hung up. The man called again, asking for the same person; when the woman told him to stop calling, he became upset and started yelling at the woman, telling her to get the person he wanted to speak to. The woman called the police instead.
* Obey Your Thirst: A local convenience store lost two cases of Sprite when several thirsty thieves made off with the soda. The thieves simply picked up the two cases of Sprite and walked out of the store without any intent to pay.
* Class Act: Last week a thief with plenty of time on his hands went from room to room in a local elementary school taking what he pleased. First he hit up the media room, taking a VCR, cameras, a boombox and a battery charger. Then he walked down the hall to one of the offices and for some reason only took a $30 roll of stamps. His last stop was the cafeteria, where he went to the register and helped himself to about $90 worth of milk money.
* Up In Smoke: Two nicotine-obsessed thieves almost made off with over $450 worth of cigarettes from a local store. Their plan was simple; one of the thieves attempted to distract the employee behind the counter by asking several questions about pipes. Apparently the conversation couldn’t hold the employee’s attention and he soon became aware of the second thief shoving cartons of cigarettes into a tote bag. The employee confronted the second thief and asked that the cigarettes be removed from the bag. With little other choice, the bummed thief complied and the two managed to flee the scene before police arrived.
* Turning the Tables: A Charlotte man alerted police last week to some disturbing calls he had recently received. The man reported that the caller had phoned him over 30 different times, each time immediately hanging up as soon as the man answered. When the Charlotte man informed the prankster that he had caller ID and could see where he was calling from, the prankster decided to turn the tables. Instead of hanging up, the caller told the Charlotte man that he was the one being prank-called. The caller went on to say that the man’s stepdaughter had continually called his residence and that “it had to stop before someone ended up in a coffin.” *
This article appears in Apr 24-30, 2002.
