Kindergarten cop
A 6-year-old Prince William girl fought off a man who jumped into the back seat of her mother’s car in Bristow on Tuesday morning.
Investigators said the child’s mother had secured the 6-year-old in the back seat and then walked down to drop a letter in a mailbox. The man jumped into the back seat and the girl started to scream.
Prince William County police said the man fled when the child’s mother ran into the garage.
“The 6-year-old fought him,” Sgt. Kim Chin said. “She screamed, she kicked, and she pinched him. And I just think that was amazing for a 6-year-old to think to do that. Screaming was fantastic; the other stuff, even better.”
That explains the crooked lawn
An eastern Missouri man was accused of driving drunk on a riding lawnmower.
Police responding to a disturbance at the man’s home saw him driving away on a riding mower, pulling a trailer with a case of beer. Police say the man also had a flask of whiskey in his pocket.
The man’s blood alcohol registered at .115, well above the state legal limit of 0.08.
Romeo and Juliet this is not
An Illinois woman is under investigation in connection with a strange campaign to reconcile her 13-year-old daughter with a former boyfriend.
Authorities say the Elgin woman threatened to post nude pictures of the 13-year-old boy on the Internet unless he contacted the girl.
The mother peppered the boy with phone calls, e-mails and thousands of text messages aimed at reuniting the young couple. Between January and July, the mother sent the boy 12,302 text messages.
Oh, and this mother’s job? She’s a teacher.
What do I think? You’re a perfect candidate for Stupid Crimes
A South Florida student who exposed himself to a teacher said he was just re-enacting a “funny prank” he saw on “That ’70s Show,” authorities said.
Miramar High School teacher Deborah Harrell, 61, was sitting alone in a classroom grading papers when a boy entered. The boy had the bottom of his T-shirt pulled over his face. The zipper of his jeans was open.
The boy asked Harrell “What do you think?” several times, as the teacher sat there stunned. The teacher didn’t think it was funny.
Neither do police. Officers arrested the youth on an indecent exposure charge.
Don’t make this bus driver have to turn around
Some students aboard a school bus in Volusia County, Fla., had a terrifying ride home.
The students said the driver stopped the school bus on the railroad tracks and refused to budge until the children quieted down. As a train approached and the rail guard was coming down, the kids said the woman was yelling that she was going to get off the bus.
Volusia County officials are investigating.
Man walks into a bar with a running chain saw …
There’s no punch line here. It really happened.
Donald V. Johnson, 46, walked into the Cannon River Inn in Welch, Minn., carrying the rumbling chain saw and threatened to use it on one of his fellow drinkers. A bartender chased him off and police found him the next day after getting a call of an unwanted person on private property.
