Lettin' off steam

A local 28-year-old felt a little stressed one day and went outside to let off some steam. On the way out the back door she grabbed her pink .22 caliber pistol and popped off four or five bullets in the ground. When she thought she had shot off all the rounds in the gun she started messing around with the gun. In the process she pointed it down and shot her own darn leg. She didn't know what had actually happened at first until she looked and saw her leg bleeding. She went inside and casually told her boyfriend that she had shot herself. She gave him the gun and he put it back in the case and stored it in the closet, then gathered his girl and their four children and took her to the hospital.

Hospital personnel called police because of the suspiciousness surrounding the whole episode and they concluded that no one else in the house was in danger. However they did search her home for the gun to ensure this conclusion. There is no word on whether she was charged for discharging a firearm within town limits.

Photo shoot

A 30-year-old woman was at a fast food restaurant with her kids and noticed an old man staring at her. The whole thing freaked her out when she watched this man take a picture of her with his cell phone. The straw that broke the camel's back was when she thought he pulled out behind her to follow her. She pulled into a nearby gas station and so did the man. Her husband arrived within minutes and confronted the creepy guy who insisted he did nothing wrong.

The officer questioned the guy, who said he wasn't even at the fast food restaurant. He produced a cell phone and said it didn't even take pictures. But later, during questioning, he said he might have driven through the restaurant parking lot. The officer asked if he could take a look in his van. Low and behold, he found another cell phone hidden inside a napkin. This cell phone did have a camera on it. There was a picture on the phone but it was nothing more than a picture of the interior of the van. He insisted that was the only picture he took with the phone and that the phone was his work phone.

Neither party wanted to press charges and the man in the van said he was from out of town and would be leaving to head to his home in the morning.

Scuffle

A grocery store manager had to call police after getting into a scuffle with several teenagers in his store. He said two boys entered the store. One stopped and asked if they sold single cigarettes and the other boy went in the opposite direction. They acted very suspicious and he thought they might be trying to steal from the store.

He walked up to one later and asked if he was finding everything alright. The boy just looked at him and started to walk out of the store. The other kid, it turns out, had already left the store.

He followed the boys to the parking lot and confronted them about stealing from the store. A third kid with them jumped out of the car and told him to go to you know where and said they had done nothing wrong. Then he threatened to beat the manager up.

The manager then backed away from the car and before he knew it one of the boys jumped out of the car and started to assault him. He swung back in self defense. The boys then left and the manager called police. He described the car and the boy that hit him. The kid just happened to be wearing pajama bottom pants and a police officer just happened to spot him at a store nearby.

The kids were all detained and denied seeing or hearing anything substantial. The manager did not want to press charges but did have the punks placed on trespass notice form the store.

Baggies

An officer watched a car speed out of the parking lot of a local bar and pull right into oncoming traffic. If that wasn't bad enough the driver then straddled the middle line like he owned the road. The police officer that watched all this pulled the man over for driving like a maniac, and when he did he smelled beer within the car. He had the driver step out but did not smell beer on him.

He did not seem under the influence of anything in fact and told the officer he was only picking up his two drunk friends who needed a ride from the bar.

The officer had the passengers exit the car and asked them if there were any open containers in the car. They said there was not but when the officer put his head in the car he could still smell booze.

He looked closer and found two plastic cups. The passengers then said that the drinks were theirs and the driver had nothing to do with it.

The driver gave the officer permission to search the rest of the car and found a scale and 50 small plastic baggies usually used in selling drugs.

The two passengers in the car said someone sold them the scale and the baggies but they didn't know what they had been used for.

They were issued open container tickets and allowed to go on home.

Seriously?

A 40-year-old woman called police to complain that a man kept cutting through her yard. She said she was tired of the neighborhood using her backyard as a path to other areas of the neighborhood, and she confronted a man about it.

He was a total jerk and told her he would do whatever he wanted to and then pulled out his penis and started peeing in her yard.

She called police and found him down the road at his cousin's house, drunk as a skunk.

They put him on trespass notice and told him he is never to return. The woman told police she also wants to pursue disorderly conduct charges.

Coo-Coo

A construction crew had to call police because a crazy woman was on their work site bothering them and messing with their equipment.

They gave a description of the woman, saying she was wearing a green Tupperware bowl on her head. That wasn't so bad, except for the fact that she was acting like she was the foreman on the job and was going around cussing all the workers out for no reason. Police subdued her and placed her on trespass notice.

(The Police Blotter is intended to be an informative and/or humorous column written from police reports obtained from the Mount Pleasant Police Department. Many of the stories come from the initial incident reports and, occasionally, supplemental reports. Generally, cases have not been adjudicated at the time of publication.)