Tag: police
Cartoon – Fashion Police
Naked Thief ISO Elvis, Beer, & TV
■ Georgia police have charged a man with carrying out several burglaries while wearing nothing but a cowboy hat. Johns Creek City Councilwoman Cori Davenport called 911 when she allegedly found nude thief Ashdon Gibbs, 21, in her home. “They’re like, ‘What was he wearing?”‘ she said. “And I’m like, ‘Absolutely nothing—a cowboy hat.’” Police say Gibbs ran off and […]
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Cartoon – Policing Our Psyche
Drones: The New Eye In the Sky
At the edge of an alfalfa field outside Grand Junction, Colorado Deputy Sheriff Derek Johnson squints at a speck crawling across the brilliant, hazy sky. It’s not a vulture or crow but a Falcon, a new brand of drones, and Johnson is flying it. The sheriff’s office here in Mesa County, a plateau of farms and ranches, is weighing the […]
Read moreCartoon – Man’s Not-So-Best Friend
Police sick from marijuana fumes
■ A police station in northern France is storing so much seized marijuana that officers are getting high off the fumes. “The odor is really strong” said one officer. “After a day, you are stoned.” About 88 pounds of weed has piled up at the Roubaix station because of a strike at the agency that is supposed to dispose of […]
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Fugitive Captured Thanks to Doughnut Contest
A North Carolina man who had spent nine months on the run from police was caught when he won a police sponsored doughnut eating contest. Bradley Hardison, 24, gobbled down eight doughnuts in two minutes at an event in Elizabeth City, NC. He defeated several locals, including police officers. Officer Max Robeson saw a report about the contest in a […]
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