Domestic Dysfunction: A divorced couple who still live together got into a fight when the man reportedly stayed out all night. Upon returning home from his night of alleged debauchery, he was confronted by his ex-wife/rommate. Instead of responding to his former flame, the man ignored her and donned a pair of headphones to listen to some music. The woman became further incensed and slapped the headphones off the man’s head, then kicked a TV to the floor. This episode of domestic dysfunction was carried out in front of the couple’s young daughter.
Walk Right In: As a young woman was leaving her bathroom, she was shocked to discover a strange man inside her house, standing near her infant daughter. The stranger grabbed the startled woman’s purse from atop the living room table, and fled from the house. The woman told police her front door was open at the time of the theft.
Problem Child: A middle school student was caught in the act of trying to set fire to a roll of toilet paper in the bathroom. This same student had been reprimanded a few weeks earlier for destroying school property.
Damn Kids: Upon returning home from work, a man discovered that someone had pulled up numerous shrubs and flowers in his front yard, and had busted a concrete birdbath in his backyard. The man told police he suspects the culprits are a couple of kids from the neighborhood with whom he’s had previous encounters.
Boorish Bum: While sitting at a red light, a motorist was approached by a man who appeared to be “extremely intoxicated,” and who asked if he could have some money. When the driver refused, the vagrant threw a bottle against the side of the motorist’s car, causing a noticeable scratch. The bottle-tossing bum left the scene before police arrived.
Sharpshooter: While she was driving down Pineville-Matthews Road, a foreign object struck the windshield of a woman’s car, causing a small crack. The woman reported that she was traveling at a slow rate of speed, and that there were no others cars in front of her to have kicked up any rocks. Given the speed and force at which the object struck her car, she believes someone may have shot at her car with a BB gun.
Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte Police Department.
This article appears in May 25-31, 2005.
