Bizarre Beat
The Bizarre Beat topic gives police officers a place to get news articles of the weird crime news and funny police reports, including the naked protesters, drunks in clown costumes, and all other oddball encounters cops have on the street on a daily basis.
As soon as he set foot in Sammy’s, the inmate was all but bound to get caught
The cow is guilty of ‘MOOving violations, uddering false checks, and fleeing and eluding police’
Video shows the burly pig munching lawn grass and running down the middle of the road while deputies followed
“Sorry, officer, I’ve been busy lately”
The smelly money prompted a search of her vehicle and home, which yielded almost $40K and drug paraphernalia
“We love our community and we are here to serve you, but cops need toilet paper too!”
“If your food delivery is stopped and has outstanding warrants, we’ll get you your food in 30 minutes or...well, I don’t know. We are a police department after all”
The suspect stole nothing but a box of pastries, left his hatchet behind, and was arrested two blocks away
Officers conducting a traffic stop found drugs, syringes and a large sword — among other weapons — inside the vehicle
The suspect had been freed from the county jail hours prior to breaking into the courthouse through a window, stealing cookies and rummaging through court records
The video, which was retweeted by the arresting police department, has been viewed over 275,000 times
Property owners voluntarily surrendered the 25-year-old reptile that was being kept without a permit
The hearse was recovered after it crashed on the highway less than a day after the vehicle was reported stolen from outside a church
Even low-horsepower modes of transportation must follow the posted speed limit
In the video, Deputy Bryce Bienz struggles to negotiate with three uncooperative birds as he attempts to get them out of the roadway
Deputies on scene successfully wrangled the sea lion from the center of a road to a driveway, where it was transported back to the river
“In this career, just when you thought you’ve seen and heard everything, something even weirder pops up”
State troopers shared a pun-filled post showing the ‘bovine blockage’
Richard Lee said he didn’t want to be arrested for not following orders to turn in his uniform
Donald Murray allegedly fled from officers and instigated a vehicle pursuit twice in under six months
The man was taken into custody after being on the tower for seven hours
A customer who saw the suspect fleeing a police officer pushed his shopping cart in front of the suspect, causing the man to fall to the ground
A photo posted on the department’s Facebook page shows two police vehicles pulling over a small riding lawnmower tractor
The vehicle was equipped with police-style bumpers, an array of lights on the back, a fake radar on the dashboard, a loaded gun and a large knife
Miguel Angel-Villegas forced his girlfriend to flee a traffic stop, then escaped a vehicle crash on a tricycle before police arrested him in New York
Internal emails from local sheriff’s offices showed officials grasping at straws and gamely playing along with comedic instigators during the months-long investigation
“Note to self — do not traffic your illegal narcotics in bags labeled ‘Bag Full Of Drugs’”
Washington police encountered two drivers with innovative license plates this weekend
Two law enforcement agencies posted suspect photos on Facebook in a viral meme format first popularized by the country singer
Spencer Alan Boston was charged with disorderly conduct after smoking a marijuana cigarette while appearing in court on a simple drug possession charge
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