6 December 30, 2015 The Amherst Bee — Your Community Newspaper — www.AmherstBee.com Local News Williamsville schools sponsor community forum The Williamsville Board of Ed- ucation will hold a community forum from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 9, in the cafeteria at Williamsville South High School, 5950 Main St., Williamsville. The town hall-style meeting will provide parents, residents and staff members a chance to discuss education-related issues of their choice. There is no set agenda or topics to be addressed. Attendees may email discussion ideas or specific questions to board- [email protected]. School Board members and Su- perintendent Scott Martzloff will be at the forum to listen to concerns, answer questions and address the latest topics impacting Williamsville Central and public education. B B e of the l ot t e r s t l ot t e r e s t Excerpts from police calls are a regular fea- ture in all nine Bee Group newspapers. Some of the more unusual reports from 2015 are reprint- ed here. Each is an actual listing from a local town or village police blotter. Illustrations by Julie Halm ● A Meadowbrook Parkway man said large bones found in his yard were from either a farm animal or a Tyrannosaurus rex. ● During a traffic stop on Ridge Road, a driver told police she didn’t have a license: “I haven’t for 30 years.” ● A woman was irate because a Main Street discount store doesn’t sell peanut butter candies in quan- tities of six. ● A Salvation Army volunteer was reportedly stealing money from the collection bucket outside a grocery store. She said she had simply dropped her gum in the bucket and was trying to get it out with a back scratcher. ● Chicken was thrown at a man’s truck some time overnight, and someone stabbed one of his tires, causing it to go flat. Not far from the house, police located three empty, 10-pound bags of boneless, skin- less chicken. ● A Doat Street resident told police that $20 of his “weed money” had been stolen. ● A man was found asleep at the wheel of a running car in the “no parking” zone of an Elma busi- ness. ● A William Street resident said a woman mooned him when they argued about garbage totes. ● A woman at a Main Street fast-food restau- rant was irate be- cause she was not given fries with her meal. ● Police said a man was found with his pants around his ankles in the parking lot of a Dick Road store. ● A Delaware Avenue resident reported that a woman from a near- by apartment called him a “loser.” ● A man was repeatedly calling an ex-girlfriend because she left a butter knife in bed. He wanted to return it. ● A woman was arrested at the sheriff’s station picking up an intox- icated friend. She had three license suspensions. ● A Shepard Avenue resident reported that someone tried to en- ter her house but instead painted her door. ● A Wainwright Road man re- quested an overnight checkpoint near his home after 28 cents was stolen from his car. ● A man on Union Road who called attention to an upside-down American flag said he was hit in the face by the owner. ● On Kinsey Avenue, a man re- ported that a teenager wearing gray shorts and a blue jacket was in the tree above his car. ● A pink handbag found in Depew contained $20, a lighter, a pack of cigarettes and an order of protec- tion. ● A Walden Galleria store clerk said she confronted two women trying to shoplift and they dumped lotion on her. ● A motorcyclist stopped on Burch Avenue didn’t have a license but claimed he was not driving; he was “traveling.” ● An Evans Street resident said her neighbor urinates out of his second-floor window and it lands in the garden. ● A “suspicious” man seen in Wrazen Park for several evenings said he was there to get away from his wife for a while. ● A woman who hit a parked car on Maple Road told police she was unable to find the brake. ● A Tillotson Avenue man said a basketball net left in the street was infringing on his quality of life. ● In Kenmore, two scantily clad women asked an elderly man if he wanted to go to a hotel for a good time. ● A patrol failed to locate two donkeys that were reportedly wan- dering down Wolcott Road. ● A subject was located after striking a sign on Seneca Street but continuing on to a hair appoint- ment. ● A Manko Lane woman said she thought one of her neighboring ten- ants stole her license and her teeth. ● A woman at a Walden Galleria business wanted to see an officer because her manicure had been done incorrectly. ● An ex-girlfriend was thought to be responsible for a pile of choco- late chips on the hood of a car in Lancaster. ● A bicyclist chased by five peo- ple who said he stole the bike had the receipt, service manual and directions. ● A Cheektowaga woman said her boyfriend moved out and took her mattress, jewelry and money she kept in a Bible. ● “Suspicious” youths sitting in a parked truck on Barone Court were just watching a meteor shower. ● A Heather Road woman said her neighbor was throwing moth- balls into her backyard. ● Two people on Elmwood Av- enue possibly having sex in a car were fully clothed and just waiting for the rain to stop. ● A Walden Galleria store man- ager said a man was “fondling” the mannequins. ● At a Broadway gas station, one woman tried on another’s designer sunglasses and then left wearing them. ● A motorist accused of driving recklessly on Losson Road claimed he was just trying to avoid potholes. ● Church fliers weren’t glued to multiple car windows on Transit Road, police said. The culprit actu- ally was a combination of dew and heat. ● A man with- out a peddler’s permit was charged be- cause he kept selling bonsai trees out of a van in Orchard Park. ● A woman at a Cheektowa- ga apartment complex said someone put photos of the devil all over the hallway walls. ● A North Creek Drive man said someone shot paint balls all over the out- side of his house, but they were actually bird droppings. ● An erratic driver in Depew was asked to complete a sobriety test, but he said, “I can’t do that. It’s too hard.” ● A Victoria Boulevard resident called about 4 p.m. and said a neighbor had been washing her car since 7 a.m. ● A woman in Depew said her brother stole her college textbooks to pay for a urine sample. He is on probation. ● A woman driving erratically on Central Avenue was also barefoot, despite having two pairs of shoes in the car. ● A man loitering with a duffel bag at Thruway Plaza was traveling to Ohio “so he could be where the weather is warm.” ● On Route 219, police reported finding 30 grams of marijuana in a man’s SpongeBob SquarePants lunchbox. ● An East Robinson Road wom- an found a glass door smashed and someone’s underwear and pants on her dining room floor. ● A Depew man put a “Leave Us Alone” sign on the door of his apartment, but someone lit it on fire. ● A “confused” woman in pink pajamas was seen walking in and out of traffic on Colvin Boulevard. ● A Harlem Road woman report- ed that a neighbor’s wind chimes were offensive. ● A Vegola Avenue man said a pig wearing a harness was grazing in a drainage ditch near his home. ● A man at a Harlem Road laun- dromat said another man took his clothes and was using them as a blanket. ● An East Aurora woman claimed she was a witch and would burn the house of kids riding scooters on her sidewalk. ● A man sleeping in the hallway of a French Road apartment complex said he was too tired to enter his res- idence. ● A Borden Road woman alerted police that her boyfriend put something on top of her apple pie. It was salt. ● A woman driving on Houston Street said a man told her she couldn’t park in front of his house and called her “fat.” ● A lot of screaming coming from a Barone Court residence was found to be people watching a Sabres game. ● A man said to repeatedly steal subs from a Southwestern Boule- vard store took a ham sub this past week. ● A woman unhappy with a cake banged on a Meadow Place door and threatened the woman who made it. ● A woman at a Dick Road restaurant said a man followed her to the bar and tried to give her flowers. He was ejected. ● A Palmdale Drive resident re- ported that her $300 bra was miss- ing. ● A man accused of taking paint from a store was arrested at a dental office just after his wisdom teeth were removed. ● A Newstead man was injured when he fell off a stoop where he and his son had been drinking. ● A West Hazeltine Avenue res- ident reported that there was a man dressed in all black who was run- ning across lawns and jumping over bushes. He told police he was just walking home. ● A teenager was reportedly walking in the middle of Delaware Road, swatting at cars. ● A Wabash Avenue woman re- ported getting stuck in the bath- tub. ● A woman reported that during the night she heard loud banging on her door and in the morning found hand prints on her windows. When asked why she hadn’t called police the previous night, she said, “I was scared.” A Meadowbrook Parkway man said large bones found in his yard were from either a farm animal or a Tyrannosaurus rex. A man on Como Park Boulevard said three dogs got loose and were chasing him while he tried to drive away on his riding lawn mower. GETTING OUT OF JAIL? 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