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Presenting a daily dose of bizarre crimes straight outta Charlotte. Check out today’s item:

Cuttin’ Up: A 57-year-old man called police after waking up and realizing that someone had done something he was too lazy to do. He told officers that someone entered his property early in the morning and cut the bushes that were in front of his windows. They are called landscapers. Communicate with your spouse, and I’m sure you will find out you pay these guys a

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Presenting a daily dose of bizarre crimes straight outta Charlotte. Check out today’s item:

Mad Props: A man was arrested and charged after being found with the following items in his pocket: a sock, three needles, two pushrods for needles, a pink baggie with residue, a spoon and a rubber band. This guy is either a major heroin addict, or MacGyver’s right-hand man.

Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. For more, check our Blotter archives.

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Presenting a daily dose of bizarre crimes straight outta Charlotte. Check out today’s item:

Child’s Play: A 10-year-old girl filed a police report after being assaulted by her sister. She told police that her 16-year-old sister kicked down her door, grabbed her by the hair and slammed her head into a wall. The suspect/sibling then told her she would kill her. The victim later complained of a headache. This happens in my family all the time, but the issue usually ends at the headache complaint.

Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. For more, check our Blotter archives.

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Presenting a daily dose of bizarre crimes straight outta Charlotte. Check out today’s item:

Storytelling: A 32-year-old woman called police after a very exciting fight with her boyfriend. The victim admitted to officers that at around midnight, she walked into her boyfriend’s room and pulled off his covers. The man then kicked her off the bed. The woman decided she should throw a glass of water on the man, who then chased her into the hallway. That’s when it gets ugly – the girl was eventually slapped. Is it too late to bid for the movie rights to this story?

Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. For more, check our Blotter archives.

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A new game called Underworld is available on the iPhone, in which you sell narcotics on the street corner, and the kids are in danger again. The game is apparently causing a stir with parents who believe it is encouraging illegal behavior. Thelma Pickard is one woman trying to stop the game from being released, and I’m sure it has a lot to do with the fact that her 17-year-old daughter Amy fell into a coma after a heroin overdose in 2001. There are already plenty of games just like this, such as Grand Theft Auto in which you kill people and have sex with hookers (sometimes killing them directly after). Is there any chance that there may have been some questionable parenting skills to blame here and not a game that was released 7 years later? I remember playing a game called Dope Wars exactly like this on my TI-83 calculator and I didn’t turn out all that bad. (Those marks on my arm are scars from chicken pox, I swear.) Anyway, I got to thinking: I too could invent some games to corrupt the young minds of Charlotte just in time for Christmas:

The Sims: Epicentre- Players drink Coors Light to keep their avatars energized and collect as many STDs as possible by swapping them with other players. Stand near stairs in case of those pesky pop-up thunderstorms. Getting trampled will lessen your player’s ability to score.

UNCC Stealth Ninja- Touch as many girls as they sleep in Sanford Hall as possible without waking them. The inventor of this game wasn’t very good at it. Two points for the foot, five points for the ankle.

Construction Chaos- Cut corners as you help on the biggest job site in Charlotte. Points are earned for dropping things. Those steel beams will give you a lot of points if you drop them 30 floors, but too bad the school bus you hit was empty, could’ve beat the whole game.

Bob Johnson’s Apathy Arena- Try to get some people to come to watch your basketball team play, but if you can’t find a way then that’s OK, too. You still have that tee time with Michael Jordan in the morning. Tip: Hugo the Hornet doing dunks at halftime was very entertaining and successful. The documentary showed last week about kids in Africa receiving tainted blood transfusions? Not so much.

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I’m happy to say that in the end, the people didn’t fall for it. They didn’t fall for the horrible ads, in which Dole’s campaigners cut-and-pasted words from different speeches to make Kay Hagan say, “There is no God!” They didn’t fall for the ads comparing Hagan to a little barking terrier, before moving on to how well respected Dole is in Washington.

Last week I wrote a blog saying that if there was a God, he would strike down Elizabeth Dole for that ridiculous ad claiming Hagan’s campaign was using “Godless money,” whatever that is. From the looks of her things duringher concession speech last night, Dole just might have been struck by lightning.

On Monday night, I braved pouring rain, a longer line than any voting location could hold and crazy pro-lifers with photoshopped pictures of babies looking just like the ones who rang my doorbell on Friday night, all to hear Barack Obama speak at UNCC. I got a special surprise to hear Kay Hagan speak first to the huge crowds settling into the muddy fields in front of Duke Centennial Hall. She gave a great speech and I was surprised at the amount of people truly cheering her on, not just waiting around for the big guy to get there. The biggest response to Hagan came when she told the crowd to help her send Dole a new pair of ruby red slippers to send her back to Kansas. Thinking of this moment gave me a great feeling to hear her tell her supporters back in Greensboro last night that she was looking for a new pair of slippers, because she gave hers away. A nice way of rubbing it in to the woman who spent the last weeks of her campaign, and probably her political career, desperately slandering Kay Hagan’s name.

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What has this race come to?!?! Elizabeth Dole released an attack ad Wednesday morning calling Kay Hagan an atheist, saying she attended a secret fundraiser held by the Godless Americans PAC and showed atheists talking about their views. The worst part of the ad comes at the end when the holier-than-thou narrator asks the question, “What did Hagan promise in return?” followed by a voice that’s supposed to sound like Hagan’s sort of moaning, “There is no God!” as if she’s already beginning her descent to hell.

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North Carolinians should be meeting the continual refusal by incumbent Rep. Sue Myrick to debate Congressional candidate Harry Taylor (D) with total disgust. After Taylor asked Myrick for a chance to appear together in late September, Myrick is just now getting around to blaming the economy and her husband’s upcoming spinal surgery for her refusal to “add anything new” to her schedule. Alright, so you’re husband is having a very serious surgery and that is fine and I hope everything goes well for him and he has a speedy recovery, but YOU ARE IN A CAMPAIGN RACE. It’s quite obvious that all Myrick wants to do is make a few appearances and hold her “telephone town meetings”, during which she can say whatever she wants to her listeners and not have to worry about differing opinions, ya know, like Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. She then waits for Election Day for voters to hop in the booth and see a name they recognize and say to themselves “Well, North Carolina isn’t falling into apocalyptic chaos, and I know Sue Myrick so I’ll vote for her.”
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McCain announced today that he wants to postpone the debate scheduled for Friday, and “suspend his campaign” to go back to Washington and help on a Wall Street rescue plan. Now this may seem like a good idea, and I admit after reading the article it’s not as bad as it looks in the headlines, but something is just way off here. This sudden urge to do something to help seems a little out of left field from McCain, who told reporters at the beginning of the year that, “The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should.”

The economy has been in terrible shape since before the democrats had a ticket worked out and now McCain decides that, effective the day before the first presidential debate, he will suspend his campaign and head back to Washington? Why? There are plenty of leaders on Capitol Hill who are willing to help and aren’t running for president. Some of them actually know a little something about economics.

While McCain’s idea to work on this financial crisis is intriguing, the fact that he thinks that setting aside a few hours on Friday night is out of the question is absurd. Memo: Multi-tasking is a much-needed skill in the job of president. To me this shows that McCain’s idea to squeeze in “off the cuff” debate prep whenever he can while continuing to campaign might have backfired. He won in his battles to focus the first debate on foreign policy and se t up a bigger stage for vice-presidential candidates, hoping to ride in on his Trojan horse Sarah Palin; and Barack Obama went along with it all, basically saying “Whenever, wherever, however you want to do this thing, let’s do it.” So what is McCain’s next step? “Ummmm…let’s not do this.”

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It is now known that Skip Brinkley, the man eluding authorities in Lenoir after killing a police officer and wounding another on Friday, is an Iraq war veteran who received Army Ranger training at some point in his military career. This brings a largely untold story of how post-traumatic stress disorder is severely affecting many veterans of the War on Terror much closer to home. (more…)

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