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Things getting rough in Concord
By adamg on Sat, 07/14/2018 - 8:56pm
Wicked Local Concord reports a woman walked into the town police station with four yellow pills she'd found at a local park:
Each pill had a small picture of Marge Simpson on them. Police checked online and reported the pills were a limited edition Tic-Tac.
H/t Geoff Edgers.
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Good for that woman
Some illegal drugs have cartoon artwork, as a brand of the source.
I've never heard of Tic-Tacs having artwork on them.
She went out of her way to remove the possibly dangerous drugs, before a toddler or pet could ingest them, and bring it to the police station.
Yes, true, and I'd never heard of them, either
But they're a thing and I wish all police stories could be like this, instead of what I usually write about.
There are plenty of fun items in that police report, including:
Why go that far?
The lead story is a classic example of odd suburban police work
Don't get me wrong. I love these, and my fear is that police departments will become more coy about putting things like these out if too many people laugh at them.
More
There's also the caller who reported a "black coyote" that turned out to be an escaped black Lab.
My favorite
Was in Brookline Tab's police blotter many years back. Woman reported someone stealing dirty diapers from a hamper in back yard.
If you think suburban ones
If you think suburban ones are odd, you should read college town blotter. My favorite one ever from college days:
https://nohodome.blogspot.com/2010/07/crime-wave-amherst-police-blotter-...
There's another good one there
The first person may not have been wrong
After all, it often takes some strong drugs to get through a Jim Carrey movie marathon...
You love that we live such
You love that we live such atomized lives in such a state of manufactured terror that people seriously think deliverymen are coming to rob them? This story does definitely summarize the role of suburban police, bureaucrats ready to respond to whatever pointless nonsense suburban busy bodies feel like they need to go to customer service over.
Marblehead always has hair-raising crime too.
It's common for the shut-ins there to call the cops when they see teenagers walking down their street. Standard operating procedure is to say "I think they're smoking pot" so that the cops have a reason to go after them. A little while back someone called in to the cops that the kids coming home from school looked suspicious because they had back-packs on. The PD dutifully went down and checked it out. A very high-strung population they have up there.
Sign of lacking mental health services
The after school program that my kids attended in grade school had to get a restraining order on one such nutjob after she kept calling the cops because "the kids don't have coats on", regardless of what temperature it was. She also reported to CPS until they threatened her with legal action for false complaints.
That assumes these people would seek out those social services.
Not to be argumentative, but just like that we are back to the little old lady from Brookline who left her sister's body under the kitchen table for over a year. She insisted that there was nothing wrong with her and everyone should just leave her alone. We are taking about the Landed Gentry here. There are many street people who would benefit from an increase in mental health services, but what do you do with those who aren't willing to come forward? At what point do you kick down doors "in their best interest"?
Wait, this is supposed to be a fun post. How bout them rich suburbanites, eh? Don't get me started.