STICKS AND STONES: After a potty-mouthed gent called another man’s wife a bitch, he found himself on the receiving end of the following vitriolic diatribe, issued by the man whose wife he had insulted: “You better leave my wife out of this or you will find a bullet right between your eyes. I have cancer but I can still beat your ass. You have not heard the last of me.” The guy who instigated the colorful threat via his name-calling ways told police that he believed the other man would physically harm him because he “raised a flashlight in my face and kept shining the light in my eyes.”
DOGNAPPING: A man reported that a female acquaintance came over to his house and without warning took his dog off the porch, carried it back to her car and drove away.
HOBBLED AND DANGEROUS: One badass broad, reportedly on crutches, kicked in the door of another woman’s house, slapped her in the face, then whacked her in the left forearm with her crutch. Imagine what might have happened if she didn’t have a gimp leg.
TEMPER, TEMPER: After a man got into an argument with his girlfriend about his bad temper, the raging rascal started busting up the woman’s house, tore at her clothes and hit her in the face.
NOT VERY NEIGHBORLY: An ongoing feud between two neighbors reached the boiling point when one woman followed another as she drove into her garage, and started banging on her car with her fists and threatening to beat her up. The other woman wisely remained in her car until several nearby residents intervened and took the enraged woman away.
HALLOWEEN HIGHJINKS: In one of what was surely dozens of similar incidences to have occurred recently, a woman reported two pumpkins were taken from her porch and smashed in the street in front of her house. A birdhouse in the front yard was also removed from its pole and smashed in the street.
TAKE A HINT: A woman reported that for the third time in about a month, someone had damaged her car while it was parked in the driveway of another person. The latest round of vandalism included damage to the gas tank, taillights, console, seats and two tires. Total, the damage was estimated to be around $2,000.
Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte Police Department.
This article appears in Nov 3-9, 2004.
