Every once in a while, a guy has to blow off some steam
A man hopped onto the counter of a smoke shop in Winter Gardens, Fla., destroyed some display cases, harassed customers and left. While police were there taking statements, he drove back and hit one of the officers with his car, bit another and fled. He was later spotted dancing on the roof of a car at an intersection where he again resisted arrest. A Taser brought him to the ground, but it took four officers and a police dog to bring him in.
HONEY, IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP: A man showed up drunk at his daughter’s high school track meet in Pensacola, Fla., angering his wife who then told him she wouldn’t allow him to join the family for dinner at Olive Garden. He showed up there anyway still intoxicated and quite “belligerent.” That night, while the wife and their two kids were sleeping in the same room, she woke up to see him pointing a gun at her.
HE WAS SPEEDING BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE SAW A SQUIRREL, OFFICER: A drunk driver, who was pulled over for speeding in Springfield, Colo., switched places with his dog that was in the passenger seat, and then got out and of the car and told the approaching policeman that he wasn’t the one driving. When the officer asked him whether he’d been drinking, he tried to run away, but did not get far.
MOOOO! HE’S OVER HERE: After being stopped for reckless driving in Watauga County, N.C., a man led the police on a chase and then abandoned his vehicle and fled into a pasture, where a herd of cows, apparently perturbed by his intrusion, led pursuing officers “directly to where the suspect was hiding.”
QUICK, PUT ON A LOBSTER BIB AND ACT HUNGRY: After running a red light and crashing their SUV into a concrete pillar under a highway overpass in San Antonio, a man and a woman ran to a nearby seafood restaurant where they tried to blend in with the customers.
OH, BACK SO SOON? Minutes after being released from a detention center, a man stole a privately owned five-ton military vehicle from a residence in Bel Air, Md., and led police on a 20-mile chase on Interstate 95 all the way to Baltimore, crashing into several cars along the way. He finally pulled over and fled on foot but was soon apprehended and immediately returned to the jail.
IDEALISM ASIDE, SIR, IT’S STILL A CRIME: A man started selling heroin, meth and cocaine from a mobile trailer that he had parked next to a police van in a drug-infested neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia. He said that he wanted to give people a safe supply of drugs that didn’t contain fentanyl, but the cops arrested him anyway.
A FAILURE OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM: Workers who repainted a road sign outside of Llangyfelach Primary School in Swansea, Wales, misspelled the word “school.”
THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET NERVOUS: A would-be carjacker tried to steal a car from its owner, who had just pulled into his driveway in Memphis, Tenn., but the thief backed into a utility pole and got stuck, so he ran away.