Crimes of the Odd Variety in OKC

[zookeeper]

Thought this goes here as easily as anywhere else.

Somebody asked the other day about, "Where IS this militarization of the police going on? I don't see it!"

Well, here we go. Today in McClain County, watch the Norman Police & McClain County deputies go into action to catch a guy who escaped from a Norman PD police car. He was being held on a burglary of an abandoned building charge with two other people. I mean, we're talking HIGH crimes here! But really, you have to see the pictures to believe it....they are geared up for a war against some rebel group or something. Just insane - check out the "Mobile Command Unit" in the background of one of the pictures in the NewsOK gallery. The uniform gear, all of it is almost, no, it IS comical.

Just a taste - copyright Steve Sisney Oklahoman



Go see the gallery here. Prepare yourself for a chuckle. They're having a blast!
Search continues for escapee near Goldsby Airport | News OK

War Games!

[Plutonic Panda]

Wow. To bit or go home I guess lol

[Achilleslastand]

Seems like quite a bit of overkill to me.
Watch out Rambo, John J.

[rezman]

Good thing he didn't use a Robertson screwdriver. It carries the death penalty.

Maybe he actually found a use for his Reed-Prince.

[zookeeper]

Had to bump this for post #26 before NewsOK takes the photo gallery down. I don't know how long those stay up.

[Bullbear]

yah a bit overkill. but many law enforcement types are prone to such things. not all.. but I think we all know the mentality I am speaking of. I use to think it was reserved for "rent-a-cops" who didn't make it into the academy, however it seems we may have lowered ours tandards

[ylouder]

For a handgun thrown into a Bush they need armored cars, full body armor and military gear?...

[Plutonic Panda]

isn't okc but this was too funny not to share

Man arrested for pretending to be ghost in cemetery

Prosecutors: Man made 'woooooooh' noises, flapped arms at mourners

A British man was arrested for pretending to a ghost in a cemetery by making "woooooooh" noises and flapping his arms at mourners.

Anthony Stallard, 24, was fined about $125 for his stupidity.

This after he was seen kicking a soccer ball at gravestones with a friend, according to the Daily Mail.

According to prosecutors, it was clear that Stallard was pretending to be a ghost.

He "was throwing himself backwards, waving his arms about and going 'woooooooh,'" prosecutor Tim Concannon told the court.

For his part, Stallard does feel bad.

"He has accepted that his behavior, if it had been outside of a cemetery, would not have been inappropriate. But inside a cemetery, while people are grieving for their loved ones, it might be," his attorney said.



Read more: Man arrested for pretending to be ghost in cemetery | Oklahoma City - OKC - KOCO.com

[Prunepicker]

A few years ago I posted about a murder that supposedly took place in the
Gatewood district in the 1930's(?). It involved a girl named Carrie and the
place is supposed to be haunted. I believe the address is 2000 Carey Place.

I can't find my post. Can someone help?

[Achilleslastand]

A few years ago I posted about a murder that supposedly took place in the
Gatewood district in the 1930's(?). It involved a girl named Carrie and the
place is supposed to be haunted. I believe the address is 2000 Carey Place.

I can't find my post. Can someone help?

I remember the post and the house as well. It had the odd carvings on the wall or something?

[Urbanized]

That story was debunked in the media a few years back. Carey Place is named for the family who owned the land the street is situated on; the same family owned Carey Lumber. There was no murder, at least no murder resembling the one in the urban legend. And it's not carvings; one (actually more than one) house in the neighborhood has little hatchet-shaped cutouts in the shutters. Other houses have different shapes, but similar design.

[RadicalModerate]

Apparently, this "Carey Place" business was somewhat popular in the past. I've lived in OKC since about '74 and never even heard of this neighborhood within a neighborhood until coming across this thread.

http://www.okctalk.com/general-civic...rey-place.html

[Urbanized]

I used to live two blocks away and walked my Great Danes down Carey Place every day. One of my favorite streets in OKC. It feels like it's somewhere else.

[RadicalModerate]

Just drove through there on the way home from the Farmer's Market.
Very interesting spot. Very interesting, indeed.

I considered pulling over to the curb, throwing a sheet over my head and doing an impression of a ghost, (replete with the "whoooooooo--whoooooo's") but that would have been a crime. Besides, it was broad daylight and nowhere near Halloween.

p.s. I used to buy a lot of lumber--and even trusses--from Carey Lumber.
It was a crime that they went out of business. It was a great, authentic, Lumber Yard.
With extra good materials.

[Prunepicker]

I used to live two blocks away and walked my Great Danes down Carey Place
every day. One of my favorite streets in OKC. It feels like it's somewhere else.

40-50 years ago we called it the Twilight Zone.

[Plutonic Panda]

Here's a funny website: http://oh****oklahoma.tumblr.com/

[Plutonic Panda]

Naked man arrested for allegedly threatening driver with meat cleaver | KFOR.com

[Plutonic Panda]

Police: Woman tried to burn down ex's house with bacon | Oklahoma City - OKC - KOCO.com

[OKCDrummer77]

Police: Woman tried to burn down ex's house with bacon | Oklahoma City - OKC - KOCO.com

The best part of this one is that her name is "Crispi".

[kevinpate]

Smelling freshly cooked bacon to death would have to be the second best way to die. Being fed freshly cooked bacon until your heart exploded would be the best.

[Plutonic Panda]

Smelling freshly cooked bacon to death would have to be the second best way to die. Being fed freshly cooked bacon until your heart exploded would be the best.

You aight?

[kevinpate]

Panda, I be fine. But yeah, if some doctor ever tells me no two ways about it, I have only X time left, if at all possible the final few hours will be spent telling folks I love I will miss them, I am grateful they have been in my life and yes of course they can have any bacon that's left ... all while sitting in sight of and smell of fresh bacon frying up by the kindly cooks seeing to my last wishes.

You're young so your brain is probably more about being behind the wheel of a fast car or in the arms of a beautiful woman. Having a few decades on you, I've driven a fair share of fast cars, though only rarely in the three digit range. There is only one beautiful woman for me and after all these years of putting up with me there is no way being entwined in each other's arms should be her final memory of me. Although hopefully she'll be there enjoying bacon with me and being comforted by friends as they enjoy sneaking a few bites as they divide out that last pan I wasn't able to enjoy.

[Plutonic Panda]

Well, I'm glad you have happiness. That's nice. It's a darn shame a lot of the marriages happening today don't even last five years or so. I have an acquaintance who got married last week, he's filled for divorce yesterday; not kidding.

Very nice to see though there are people like you, my grandparents, and my neighbors who are married and happy with no end in sight.

[BlackmoreRulz]

leftover bacon.....pffft

[RadicalModerate]

40-50 years ago we called it the Twilight Zone.

If forty to fifty years ago some imagination had been present . . .
'We' might have called it Hotel California . . . Welcome To . . . =)
The "Twilight Zone" is . . . like . . . so vapidly clichéd . . . that aaaaaahahhhggggg!!!!!

(that was the innocent and honest cry of the plasterer/stucco artist who got stuck in the escalator when the ladybugs attacked. =)