It’s all fun and games until someone calls 911 . . . 16 times!
An Oregon woman is facing a year in prison and a $6,000 fine because her toddler daughter kept accidentally dialing emergency services while playing with Mom’s cellphone.
Jessica May said she was in the bathroom when her 1-year-old accidentally summoned police.
“It was an honest mistake,” she said.
But cops said it’s been happening for two months.
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An Ohio woman was arrested after she wrapped her 8-year-old son’s head in duct tape.
Tiffany Ennis, 31, told police she did it because she thought it was funny. She put her friend’s daughter, 11, in the same sticky situation, cops say.
The boy’s father called police, who arrested Ennis on charges of child endangerment.
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Did anyone question the neighbor’s dog?
Virginia police were called on to investigate a dinner-time mystery in Arlington County after a woman reported a chicken stolen from her crock pot.
The woman stepped away from her kitchen for a few hours as the poultry and vegetables simmered on the stove, but when she returned, the chicken was gone.
“She returned to find the chicken had been taken, and there were only vegetables remaining in the crock pot,” police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said. “We suspect fowl play.”
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An Ohio bartender was fired — for calling cops on a drunken patron.
Twyla DeVito lost her job at the American Legion in Shelby, Ohio, because she alerted police to an intoxicated customer who got behind the wheel.
Her bosses said her actions were bad for business.
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Talk about fool’s gold!
Authorities in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains had double the work on their hands after a woman hunting for the legendary Lost Dutchman’s gold mine gave bad directions to some fellow hikers, who eventually became lost and had to be rescued.
The next day, the woman, Robin Bird, 41, also got lost in the mountains east of Phoenix and fell victim to hypothermia and dehydration before she was found.