A masked man appeared suddenly and made a citizen’s arrest of three men and a woman who were burglarizing a hunting cabin in Charleston, W. Va., late at night. Police, who responded to a call, arrived to find the four of them lying on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs. The tires on their vehicle had been flattened, and the cops found stolen items inside of it. The masked man was gone, and nobody seems to know who he is.
THIS IS A ROBBERY, WINK, WINK, NUDGE, NUDGE: A convenience store worker in Tulsa, Okla., got a friend to rob the place so he could go home early.
WHEN STEALING A TRUCK, IT’S BEST TO JUST DRIVE AWAY: Police responding to a call of a man trying to steal a truck in Fort Payne, Ala., found the very intoxicated, would-be thief still sitting inside the vehicle. They hauled him out and arrested him after a brief struggle.
YOUR PAROLE OFFICER WILL NOT LIKE THIS AT ALL: A man, wearing an ankle monitor due to a previous burglary conviction, rammed his car into a home in Wildwood, Fla., at 3:50 in the morning, and then tried to burglarize the place. When the cops showed up, he ran to another home and barricaded himself inside before jumping out a second-story window in an attempt to flee. He had been convicted of 30 felonies and was on parole.
YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT I FELT SOMETHING: A man out nightclubbing in Northland, Ohio, was shot in the left hip but didn’t realize it until he was being driven home by the mother of his child who had come to pick him up.
LOOKS LIKE GETTING BACK TOGETHER IS OUT OF THE QUESTION: A man drove to the home of his estranged wife in Northampton, Pa., while holding several homemade sticks of dynamite, and threatened to kill her and himself. Police said he appeared to have been drinking. He was arrested after he stumbled out of his car. He faces a half dozen charges including risking a catastrophe.
EN GARDE, YE VILE COMMUTERS!: A man who was ordered to leave a bus in Albuquerque, N.M., got back on and slashed a passenger with a sword.
I’LL QUIT DRINKING WHEN I’M GOOD AND READY!: A Las Vegas woman with seven DUI arrests, who was wanted for cutting off her ankle monitor, was taken back into custody after she commented on an article that police posted to Facebook saying that they needed help finding her. She had previously been arrested for drunk driving in April, 2007; September, 2010; April, 2019; February, 2020; July, 2020; August, 2022 and earlier this year.
DON’T KIDS TODAY TAKE DRIVER’S ED?: Two teenagers yanked the driver out of a car at a gas station in Germantown, Md., in an attempt to carjack his vehicle. But they had to flee because they didn’t know how to drive a stick shift. The cops spotted the two miscreants nearby and caught them after a short chase.