Two DUIs in One Night & Man in Panties: Best of the Blotter
Here are some of the most bizarre police reports from departments across the region
Here are this week's weirdest police calls, reports and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Repeat offender — It took just three hours for a Westlake man to achieve the unthinkable. Police arrested him twice in 180 minutes for driving under the influence.
First, police stopped him at 2:37 a.m. on Columbia Road for his erratic driving. His blood-alcohol content level was .144 at that point. His license was automatically suspended. He was released to his girlfriend.
Officers found him again at 5:24 a.m. on Hilliard Boulevard. He blew a .098 this time around. He had taken his girlfriend's car without her permission, but she decided not to press charges.
Still, the man faces marijuana and drug paraphernalia charges in addition to the DUIs.
Where's Brittany? — A Cleveland Heights woman woke up with someone next to her on July 19 — a complete stranger.
The homeowner told police that she saw a woman she did not recognize kneeling beside her bed early that morning. When asked what she was doing there, the surprise visitor asked, "This is not Brittany's house?"
It wasn't.
The stranger told the homeowner that the back door was unlocked and she was not trying to break in. The resident allowed the stranger to make a few phone calls after things calmed down.
Foreign photographer — Strongsville Police banned an elderly man from SouthPark Mall for three months after a witness complained that the man had been taking pictures of young women with his cell phone.
He took the pictures around 8 p.m. on July 21 and was with his daughter at the time, police said.
Since the man did not speak English, his daughter served as his interpreter. She told police that he did not understand American culture and meant no harm by taking the pictures.
An officer stood by and made sure the man deleted the photos.
Mad man — A man was visibly — and audibly — frustrated on July 22 in Mayfield Village.
Police received several calls that night that a man was standing on the yellow double line of Wilson Mills Road, screaming at cars that passed him. He was talking on a cell phone at the time, police said, but the motorists believe he was yelling at them and not into the phone.
Police eventually told him not to stand in the middle of the road.
Panties-clad man on Madison — Lakewood Police responded to a sight most would consider uncommon at 3 a.m. on July 22.
An area resident called to report a man walking near the 13300 block of Madison Avenue wearing nothing but a red pair of women's panties.
The scantily clad male told police he was simply trying to talk to a friend.
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The original Bill
9:46 am on Sunday, July 29, 2012
Shame on Westlake police. What if that man who they released to his girlfriend had killed somebody before they picked him up the second time. He should have been arrested and jailed until he was sober.
Earl Elevant
2:39 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
It's not the police's fault this guy doesn't know how to live in civilized society. It's time for some personal responsibility. Why blame everyone but the moron who can't learn for his inability to learn?
They should probably charge the girlfriend for allowing him back into her car.
Steve
6:55 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
@Earl, then I take it you are against the pit bull ban here in Lakewood. After all, it's not the breed, it's the other end of the leash, "Why blame everyone but the moron who can't learn for his inabilty to learn". End BSL in Lakewood, it serves no good purpose.
The original Bill
7:22 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
You're right Earl, it's not the police's fault that he drinks and drives but he was arrested for driving drunk. That should have kept him locked up until he slept it off. It would have been the police's fault if he killed somebody after they released him while he was still drunk. How would you feel if he killed someone in your family when he should have been sleeping it off in a jail cell?
Earl Elevant
10:02 am on Monday, July 30, 2012
Steve, you're right--it *IS* usually the owner of the dog and not the dog itself that is to blame for the behavior.
Unless there were dogfighting rings in Lakewood that these dogs were used for, I'd be very much against a ban.
Earl Elevant
10:13 am on Monday, July 30, 2012
Bill, if the courts and legislature have determined that he could be released on bond, I'm sorry they don't agree with your opinion in the matter.
Shame on them for not understanding that your opinion should trump any legal precedence that may have taken place. I wish they would have asked you for your opinion before they decided on these rules and laws decades ago.
Man, are they going to look silly for not consulting you for your opinion...
I.M. Wright
11:16 am on Monday, July 30, 2012
Uhh....if he killed someone as a result of him driving drunk, then he wouldn't have been released. If you're going to compare apples, then do so.
I.M. Wright
11:21 am on Monday, July 30, 2012
" It would have been the police's fault if he killed somebody after they released him while he was still drunk."
No, it would not. Are you trying to be this stupid?
denise cross
11:51 am on Sunday, July 29, 2012
just about anybody else would have been why not him?????????????????
joe
12:49 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
How could you not take it as a hint the first time. People need to stop driving all messed up because it's always the innocent people who get hurt in those accidents.
http://jokeofthedayblog.blogspot.com
Mars
5:44 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
I wish every vehicle was equipped with either an interlock device or something similar to help prevent those with less inhibitions from doing ignorant, life endangering acts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqXdERs-eyE
Steve
7:01 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
@Mary, it's called 'going to jail'. I don't need it on my car as I do not drink and drive. Do not classify me with those people who do. We need less regulations and more harsher sentences for drunk driver's, that WILL be enforced.
tom m
9:01 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
your one of those wrap your kids in bubble wrap types huh
Mars
12:28 pm on Monday, July 30, 2012
Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 48 minutes. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $51 billion.
US adults drank too much and got behind the wheel about 112 million times in 2010. Alcohol-impaired drivers* are involved in about 1 in 3 crash deaths, resulting in nearly 11,000 deaths in 2009.
*These drivers had blood alcohol concentrations of at least 0.08%. This is the illegal blood alcohol concentration level for adult drivers in the United States.
Original Prankster
9:38 am on Sunday, September 9, 2012
If someone came into my house in the middle of the night, it would not end well. The only call being made would be mine - "Hello, 911? I just shot an intruder... no rush on the ambulance... the body is in the front yard... please come get it when you get a chance... I'll keep the dogs locked up inside"
Jim O'Reilly
10:47 am on Friday, March 15, 2013
Re: the 11,000 deaths in alcohal related crashes in 2009. Etc. etc. & etc.
What a shame, a complete loss of life.
What with MADD, all of the tightening of laws, etc. & etc. nothing seems to help. Maybe your wipping a dead horse anyway. Maybe it's time to turn to DAMM {drunks against mad mothers}
What I'm trying to say here is........ Never, ever should you approach a problem while carring a vandeta {my wife - girlfriend - whatever was killed by a drunk driver.
And in in closing, more people are killed in deer/auto crashes in Ohio, then in alcohol related crashes. And yet we we don;t wan't to cull those animals in. "DON'T KILL BAMBY" Talk about a real "Catch 22" For what its worth, I don't drink, you'd think I was on the MADD side, but those people have gone way over the edge. Jim