Jason Sandford
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As usual, the folks over in Mack-Dowell County are having more fun than you can shake a stick at. Check out these true stories, courtesy of the local newspaper.
Naked guy on the run
Mack-Dowell deputies arrested a naked guy standing in a field along U.S. 221 flashing folks.
The guy was standing in a field near a church making “hand gestures” at motorists, according to the poe-leece. Here’s where the deputy work comes in – “Deputy Jerald Hicks found the field and followed a path of flattened grass to the residence where” the suspect lives with his parents.
From the story: “Alvin Clinton “Dink” Hollifield, 39, of U.S. 221 South was charged with two counts of indecent exposure.”
I hope “Dink” isn’t a comment on the size of the dude’s manhood.
One drunk sumuvabitch
I can’t tell it better than the local newspaper:
“Authorities responding to a domestic dispute early Monday morning had no trouble finding their suspect. They say he passed out on the bed during the attack, knife still in hand.”
Police arrested the suspect after a 5 a.m. call to the home of the suspect’s ex-girlfriend. The woman let her old boyfriend in the home “to talk” when he grabbed her by the neck and pushed her onto a bed and held a pocketknife to her throat.
Then he passed out. The cops found him with the knife still in his hand.
I think that’s why the dude got dumped – he always passed out right when he was supposed to deliver the goods.
Stretching the local connection
Sounds like the reporters were stretching to find a local connection to the horrible bombings in London:
Marion man arrives in London an hour after blasts
“A Marion man began his vacation in London in the aftermath of the worst attack on the city since the blitz bombings of World War II.“
I bet all that guy said was, “whew.”
