Potato Launcher, Shoe-Discarder Prompt Police Calls

What a waste of a perfectly good potato.

A Sudbury resident reported this week that people were shooting a potato gun in the area. Responding officers were unable to locate the individuals, nor were they able to find the location of the caller. It was a mystery all around.

Moral of the story: it was a nice thought, but don't try to be a cop unless you're planning to go to the police academy.

Milford police chipped in this week to help Mendon police, who were pursuing an erratic driver. The driver abandoned his car in Milford and fled on foot. A Highway Department employee told police a white vehicle with tinted windows was driving slowly up and down the side streets. An officer stopped the vehicle. It was a man listening to his scanner who throught he would help. He was sent on his way. (Police ended up finding the erratic driver and took him into custody after he tried to force his way into a house.)

Maybe the money was to buy a second shoe to match the first? 

This was a much friendlier call than one police received earlier in the day from a resident complaining not that a stranger had discarded money by the mailbox, but rather, that a stranger was requesting he give him $800.