Wait. In Alabama, that’s just a mobile home
Police arrested an Alabama woman after she was spotted driving down a highway with her 13-year-old daughter in a cardboard box — on the roof of her minivan.
When asked why her child was riding on top of the van, Jackie Knott told police the box was too big to fit inside the van.
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Knott, 37, said she thought her daughter was safe because the box was secured to the van with a clothes hanger.
Knott was charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
Pool party
Thieves who broke into a Texas home were greeted with a hail of billiards balls.
Paula Ollie, a 27-year-old mother, gathered the heavy pool balls and put them in her son’s bicycle helmet so she could move into an advantageous position.
“I hollered out ‘Death from above!’ ” Ollie told KTVT. “And no sooner than I said that, I started chucking pool balls at them.”
Ollie said she used the pool balls because they were handy and she couldn’t find her crossbow.
That’s so wrong
A Charleston, W.Va., man was charged with child neglect after he poured beer into an infant’s bottle.
James Michael Williams told police he was just joking. Police didn’t find it funny. Williams was using Natural Ice Light beer.
Police were unable to determine if the child drank any beer. But the mother said her child vomited shortly after she took the bottle away.
Speed dialing
A New York driver was arrested after he called police to try to get out of a traffic ticket.
While Christopher Jones was being pulled over, police said he grabbed his phone and dialed 9-1-1.
“There’s a lady laying in a ditch holding her head,” Jones is heard saying on 911 tapes.
“Did you stop?” asks the dispatcher.
“No I kept going. There was a car behind me.”
Investigators think Jones, 31, was trying to get the patrol officer to respond to his fake emergency.
Instead, 14 firefighters rushed to the scene and found nothing.
When police pulled Jones over, police found a fake sheriff’s department ID card and badge. He ended up with the ticket and five other charges.
Beware of attack dog
Police say a Nebraska woman threw a dog at an officer during a domestic violence investigation.
Officers said the woman was suspected of throwing a cell phone that hit her boyfriend in the face.
The woman was holding a small dog when officers arrived, and threw the dog, named Flash, at an officer. Neither the dog nor the officer were injured.
The woman was arrested for domestic assault.
– Compiled by Scott McCabe
