Crime & Safety
9 Fingers to Text + 1 To Signal Cop = None to Steer
"Don't text and drive" would be secondary advice in this case. This is our weekly roundup of weird suburban crime news, OMG PD.
Patch editors around southeastern Wisconsin collect unusual items every week from police reports and criminal complaints. Our weekly compilation is called OMG PD. Click the blue text links for the full story:
We’re No. 1!
A woman in Greenfield could not figure out why she was getting so much attention. Soon it became clear.
And these kids weren’t texting
The phrase “get a room” was built for situations just like this one in Port Washington.
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Don’t look straight at it
A full moon emerged in Brookfield recently. At 2 p.m. In a bank.
He speaks the truth
A Taser stun gun delivers an electrical current that disrupts the communication between a person’s brain and muscles. Or said another way …
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So does this guy
Arrested on suspicion of burglary in Muskego, a man used an apt basketball analogy to describe the situation.
Legal, but illegal
He’d been 21 years old for all of 78 minutes before running afoul of the law.
That stuff’s not good for you
Wouldn’t you think this guy would have run faster?
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