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.
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“Hundreds of disassembled LEGO minifigures were found with bodies separated from heads, which were neatly organized by facial expression,” Santa Rosa Police investigators said
“Just another example of our officers going above and beyond, even for seasonal decor!” the Parma Heights Police Department posted
The Sweetwater Police Department did not share what the order was or why it raised suspicions; they were able to take the barricaded suspect into custody after the hostage escaped
A driver fled after Seattle Police officers spotted him in a stolen car; he rammed through gate arms at the University Bridge and jumped the gap as the drawbridge was still being lowered
When the man, suspected of having illegal drugs, heard a Lubbock PD Mounted Patrol officer’s joke about his horse’s special skills, he tried to run away but was quickly caught
The footage shared by the Ketchikan Police Department shows the bears in the front seat of the car with the video captioned, “Don’t be suspicious. Don’t be suspicious.”
The man said he was going to walk to a gas station, but got “lazy” and decided to borrow his roommate’s daughter’s toy car instead
The man was suspected of credit card fraud, according to the Tallahassee Police Department
When arresting a suspect for a suspected DUI, Warren Police recovered a gun that was reported stolen from the Syracuse Police Department in 1979
Following a chaotic pursuit, the Aurora officers deployed pepper balls into the suspect vehicle to coax the man out
The suspect, who was driving recklessly in the wrong direction, crashed into Bal Harbour and Surfside police cruisers before getting stuck in the sand on a beach
“Oh, I got you and you’re fine. I know you’re super mad,” the St. Johns County deputy is heard saying as the alligator thrashed in his grip
A Reidsville Police Department was assaulted in his patrol car by an angry bird hiding in the backseat on a 105-degree day
“Chuck E, come with me Chuck E,” a police officer in Tallahassee told the suspect, “stop resisting, you are being detained”
“Gerald” the raccoon was dropped off at a wildlife rehab center after “acting more like a K-9 than a critter” and interacting with Lakeville PD officers
“The order was Hot-N-Ready and the suspect was Caught-N-Steady,” Tempe Police wrote on social
The suspect, who was wearing a woman’s sundress and sweater tied around his torso,
When a Marion County deputy stopped to check on the man, he fired a flare at the deputy’s cruiser and began to act erratically before being taken into custody
When the Redding Police officer exited his patrol vehicle, the woman punched him in the face, then reached inside her pants and hurled feces at him
“While (investigators were) on scene, the father of the suspect brought his son ... to the Leesburg Police Department, where he turned himself in,” the department stated
After officers found the suspect in a stolen vehicle, she struck patrol cars and fled; after her tires were deflated, she continued to flee at slow speeds for nearly four hours
“I was like, an alligator? What do they want me to do about an alligator?” Smith County Deputy Brian Hutchins said; Hutchins was able to capture the gator using a makeshift lasso
LAPD says the woman, still in handcuffs, maneuvered into the driver’s seat of the patrol SUV and drove off before abandoning the vehicle and escaping on foot
“Beachgoers received an unexpected thrill (Thursday) afternoon when an 8-foot alligator decided to join them in the surf,” the Sunset Beach PD wrote in a Facebook post
Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies worked to de-escalate for 40 minutes as the man stood in a pond and refused to come out; a deputy then used the lasso to take him into custody
Images shared by the New Kent County Sheriff’s Office show a van on its side with crabs crawling around its ajar doors, the pavement and the wooden barrels inside
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