Stupid Crimes

Published August 20, 2009 4:00am ET



Up to his neck in alligators, now

Alligators are common along the roads of Louisiana, but they are rarely spotted traveling on bicycle.

So sheriff’s deputies had a few questions when they saw a man riding his bike with a 3-foot-long gator slung over his shoulders.

The alligator carrier dropped the reptile and his bike and ran away from the deputies but was picked up a few blocks away.

Terron D. Ingram 38, was charged with cruelty to animals by abandonment, resisting arrest and possession of drug paraphernalia.

St. Charles Parish police didn’t know where Ingram got the gator or what he had planned to do with it. Alligator Control officers released the animal into a marsh.

Dungeons & Dragons player actually had a girlfriend

A man playing a fantasy game attacked another man with a real hammer.

Dungeons & Dragons player Zachary King became upset because the “Dungeon Master,” the game’s referee and storyteller, was getting cocky, according to police in Utah. King went home, downed a sleeping pill and climbed in bed. He woke up angry, grabbed a hammer from his shed, drove to the dungeon master’s house and entered through a window.

The dungeon master was asleep. Police said King said, “I hate you,” and swung away with the hammer, police said. The dungeon master suffered serious injuries.

King was apparently upset that the dungeon master had grown too full of himself and King didn’t like the way his character was being treated. King was also angry at another player for dating a girl after both men said they would not date her.

He loves that car

An Albuquerque man faces indecent exposure charges after police say children saw him simulating a sex act with his car in a grocery store parking lot.

Danny Brawner, 46, was indicted on two counts of aggravated indecent exposure and one count of indecent exposure.

Witnesses told police they saw Brawner “humping” his car’s trunk while swinging his arms in the air and shouting. His pants were around his ankles, witnesses said.

An officer said he found Brawner asleep next to his car. The officer said Brawner appeared to be drunk.

A toy story

Police in North Florida were called to a home to take a report on a stolen sex toy.

A Niceville, Fla., man said a woman took his sex device worth $70. The man said he’d bought it for the woman but planned to use it with other women as well.

The woman admitted to having his sex toy, but said he had her camera, according to the Niceville Daily News. The man agreed to return her camera when she returned his sexual device. About 15 minutes later, the woman returned the sex toy.

But she told the officer she was concerned the memory card was missing in the camera.

Wonder what’s on those pictures …