October 25th-November 21st : Chock Full 'O' Crazy

October 8-13

TUESDAY, OCT. 9

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

 

• 6:06 a.m. — A man dressed in black carrying a flashlight and wearing night vision goggles in the area of the Notch was not located.

 

THURSDAY, OCT. 11

 

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

 

• 12:39 a.m. — Police removed a man sleeping inside a downtown ATM. At 1:34 a.m., he went inside a downtown convenience store and scared customers and employees by his statements. Police confiscated scissors he was holding and sent him on his way.

 

• 6:35 p.m. — Tanks containing oxygen and acetylene were found inside a vehicle parked in the parking garage. Police determined the tanks belong to an artist.

 

• 7:42 p.m. — Police located a man who followed four college students on East Pleasant Street and tried to engage them in conversation.

 

LARCENY

 

• 5:44 p.m. — A South Amherst resident reported losing $1,000 after sending money for rent to Nigeria for an Amherst home advertised on Craigslist. Police are advising people to be careful about scams in which they are asked to send money overseas.

 

 

 

 

Amherst/Hadley/UMASS Police Activity, May14th through May 27th

my newest bead creations...

I think he might be killing her in this video, but I don't care, this man is BEAUTIFUL (and the song is pretty catchy too:)

April 23-29: Quality Funnies

MONDAY, APRIL 23

DISTURBANCES

3:05 a.m. - Two women were found crying outside a downtown restaurant. One of the women, who had just been at a bachelorette party, was determined to be the expected bride in a wedding that was called off by the groom.

11:26 p.m. - Police got a report of a man in a wheelchair yelling obscenities on North Pleasant Street. He was told to move along from the location.

NOISE COMPLAINTS

7:05 a.m. - Police issued a $300 ticket for violating the town's noise bylaw to a woman repeatedly warned about not using her treadmill to disturb a neighbor at Village Park.
*either this lady LOVES her treadmill, or she hates her neighbor, as this is the 4th report I've seen involving her and her treadmill...*

ANIMAL COMPLAINTS

7:23 p.m. - Three large pigs running loose on a South East Street property were brought under control and put back in their pen.
*perhaps we should connect these "large pigs" with the Village Park Treadmill lady...*

TUESDAY, APRIL 24

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

5:32 p.m. - A Village Park woman reported a man was painting in the woods outside her home. Police advised the woman she could get a harassment order in court.
*Good God, NO! NOT PAINTING IN THE WOODS!!!*

NOISE COMPLAINTS

10:54 p.m. - Police issued a verbal warning to Main Street residents holding a loud party.
*I'm the one who made this call...they were blasting Mr.Jones by The Counting Crows, which is COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY!*

THURSDAY, APRIL 26


SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

9:19 p.m. - Suspicious people dressed in black clothing and carrying garbage bags were reported in the area of South East Street and Eveningstar Drive. At 9:53 p.m., after getting more reports about these people, police determined they were participating in a scavenger hunt. 


LARCENY
 
1:28 a.m. - Police are investigating the theft of a painting depicting an ostrich from the wall of a downtown restaurant.
  *NOOOOOOOOOOO! NOT THE OSTRICH PAINTING!!!*

FRIDAY, APRIL 27

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

2:03 p.m. - A South Whitney Street woman told police someone entered her home overnight and left a condom in the bathroom.

SATURDAY, APRIL 28

CITIZEN ASSISTANCE

9:32 a.m. - Hazel Avenue residents having a pig roast with 10 tables for guests were advised to hold their party at another time.
*I feel like that's a bit early...*

2:05 p.m. - Police were called to a North Amherst location to assist a man in removing handcuffs that a friend had put on him the night before as a prank.
*hahahahahaha*

RECOVERED PROPERTY

3:53 p.m. - A box filled with beer found on Nutting Avenue was confiscated for destruction.
*yeah, "destroyed" by some officers' bellies!*

BREAK-INS

2:03 a.m. - A Puffton Village woman called police to report that her home had been entered and her laptop stolen. She later told police that the incident was a prank by her boyfriend to demonstrate how easy it is for an intruder to enter a residence when windows are left unlocked. He had hidden the laptop beneath her mattress.
*and that's why you ALWAYS LEAVE A NOTE!*

TRAFFIC

4:18 p.m. - A vehicle squealing its tires as it sped out of the parking garage was stopped by police. The driver told police he was upset that no parking spots were available.


 
 
 
 

 
 

I can't decide if this video is racist or not, but I do enjoy this funky jam! 

April 2nd - April 15th: The weather gets warmer and the drunks get drunker

I've omitted all the reports of drunk driving, loud parties, etc, because they're dull, and there's too many of them. 

TUESDAY, APRIL 3

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

7:29 a.m. - A Puffton Village woman told police someone may have entered her home overnight and turned on the light in the living room. *that is SOOOO SUSPICIOUS*

THURSDAY, APRIL 5

MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS

9:12 p.m. - Michelle S. Rollins, 38, of Three Rivers lost control of the vehicle she was driving on South East Street. The vehicle hit the gravel shoulder and eventually rolled onto its roof, police said.
Rollins suffered minor injuries and was taken by Amherst Fire Department ambulance to Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton for treatment, police said.
Rollins' vehicle sustained heavy damage, police said.
*I drove past this accident on my way home from my parents house, and there were 2 fire trucks, and ambulance, and at least 4 cop cars. I will also note that she is not related to me...*

SATURDAY, APRIL 7


CITIZEN ASSISTANCE

9:27 a.m. - Police are working with Village Park tenants and management to resolve ongoing noise issues related to a woman who regularly uses a treadmill in the early-morning hours.

DISTURBANCES

10:42 p.m. - A Mill Hollow Apartments resident celebrating Easter by yelling was advised to calm down.

MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS 

10:34 a.m. - A U-Haul rental vehicle struck the low railroad bridge on South East Street, causing minor damage to the vehicle, police said.
The vehicle was able to back out from the bridge, but later got stuck in a nearby field and had to be towed, police said.
*this is why you shouldn't drive a U-haul rental vehicle unless you ACTUALLY know what you're doing...*

SUNDAY, APRIL 8
 
BREAK-INS

6:53 p.m. - Police received a report that the Amherst Survival Center on North Pleasant Street had been broken into through a kicked-in door.
The intruder is alleged to have stolen loose change and left excrement on the floor, police said.
*Ew?*

MONDAY, APRIL 9


NOISE COMPLAINTS
6:05 a.m. - Police responded to Village Park after receiving a complaint about a woman using an exercise machine that woke up a neighbor. Police asked management to help mediate the situation.
 *This lady and her treadmill!*

SATURDAY, APRIL 14

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

8:49 a.m. - A Shays Street resident reported 27 trash bags thrown into the woods near his property. Police determined the bags were filled with remnants from a large barbecue. Police are investigating who illegally disposed of the trash.
*I was fully expecting the trash bags to be filled with body parts, not barbecue remnants...although I do enjoy how they worded this one*

CITIZEN ASSISTANCE

12:23 p.m. - A downtown resident told police a neighbor took photographs of him while he was gardening.
*was he wearing his sexy gardening outfit?*

Apple Scruffs

I realize everybody has their own opinion on the beatles.
Some love John, others Ringo.
I however, think George was (and quite frankly, still is) the best Beatle.

Wah wah, John Lennon got shot, wahh, nanny nanny boo boo. Cry me a river.
George got stabbed betch! ...and he didn't die.

okay, I josh, but still, George is the best, and there's not an argument in the world that could ever make me change my mind.
All my favorite Beatles songs are the ones that George wrote
(and because John and Paul were decks, and didn't want to share songwriting royalties, he basically got one song per album)
I won't even attempt to explain the depth of my love for All Things Must Pass.

I also like to imagine George and Bob Dylan's friendship. The mental image of the two of them on a tandem bike, much like that scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (*sidenote*my ALL TIME FAVORITE FILM), and yes, it will be a montage set to the sweet sweet stylings of Burt Bacharach.

this is where I insert the George/Bob songs that I love so much

   

I like to think that they keep looking at each other because they're deeply in love...

 

George was a beautiful human being, and I hope that his soul has been reincarnated into some precious baby somewhere, born into the home of a music-loving family, and they will nurture him and he will grow up to become George Harrison 2.0

and now, I give you (and by you, I mean me) some super classy youtube videos that prove how amazing the youngest and cutest of the Beatles really was.

 

 

 

 

 


This is my JAM when I need to get PUMPED UP, or just elevate the humors.
and FINALLY, because we all need some SILLY George Harrison:
 
(Ariel, I hope this song is now forever stuck in your head! HAH!)

still 30 years too young

Here is the MAIN reason why Robert Plant should've never grown facial hair...

WHY AM I NOT 56 YEARS OLD?!?

I can say without any doubt, that I was born in the wrong decade.
All the good music came and went at least ten years before my birth.
All I can do is watch Youtube videos and cry.

cry tears of polyester and terrible orange/brown shag carpet.

Spring Break, quieter than usual

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY

2:26 p.m. - A Strong Street resident was burning trash in his driveway. Firefighters were contacted to help put out the fire.

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

CITIZEN ASSISTANCE

12:01 p.m. - An East Pleasant Street woman told police she received phone calls from a man telling her that she could collect lottery winnings if she first provided a small amount of money. The man later threatening the woman harm if she didn't provide the money. Police are investigating.

DISTURBANCES

2:05 a.m. - Police kept the peace between brothers at The Boulders engaged in a verbal altercation over doing housework.

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

8:39 p.m. - College-age people on the Fort River School playground drinking alcohol fled when police got there, leaving behind shot glasses and various cups.

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

11:20 p.m. - Police took a report from a customer at a University Drive business who was approached by a man who made threats about robbing him. Police said the incident may have been a case of mistaken identity and that the suspect was just pulling a prank.









January 9th-February 14th, a best-of

Monday, January 9^th, 2012

DISTURBANCES

8:35 p.m. - A Riverside Park woman told police her son's girlfriend removed three baked potatoes from the oven the previous day and threw them at her, striking her in the chest. No injuries were reported.

Wednesday, January 11^th, 2012

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

9:59 a.m. - A South East Street woman told police that several days earlier a college student who lives at a nearby home came into her residence, sat at her kitchen table and asked her to marry him. The student, who may have been high on drugs at the time of the incident, was removed from the woman's home by his roommates. The resident told police she didn't want to press charges.

Thursday, January 12^th, 2012

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

2:31 a.m. - Police found a man wandering outside Fort River School. The man told police he was trying to get fresh air while thinking about his former girlfriend.

Sunday, January 15^th, 2012

CITIZEN ASSISTANCE

1:56 a.m. - Police assisted a Sunderland Road woman in getting to the hospital after she ate a brownie containing marijuana, smoked a marijuana joint and washed down her prescription medication with alcohol.

Monday, January 30^th, 2012

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

8:46 p.m. - A man who entered a University Drive business and asked a woman if he could give her a foot massage left when she declined his advances, but remained outside the building, staring at her. Police provided the woman a courtesy escort back to her dormitory room. The man was not located.

Tuesday, February 14^th, 2012

ACCIDENTS

 6:37 p.m. - Scott Waterman, 22, of Palm Beach Garden, Fla., was issued a citation for failure to use care in stopping after the vehicle he was driving rear-ended a vehicle driven by Mark J. Richason, 60, of Webster Court, police said.

Waterman told police he was reaching for a package of crackers at the time of the crash.

No personal injuries were reported and both vehicles sustained only minor damage, police said.

March 2nd, 2012

Arrests & Summons

•  A 50-year-old Amherst man will be summoned to court on a charge of defrauding a restaurant after continuing to refuse to pay a $10.65 bill for a meal he ate at a downtown restaurant on the evening of Jan. 27, police said. (three things I want to know. a. what did he order? and b. What made him refuse to pay the bill. c. if there was a problem with the food that warrented payment refusal, why did he EAT THE MEAL FIRST?)

Wednesday, February 22nd

•  LARCENY           4:52 p.m. # A Mill Hollow Apartments woman told police someone removed the bolts from the base of her toilet, causing the toilet to be unsteady whenever anyone uses it.

Thursday, February 23rd

•  DISTURBANCES                  11:01 a.m. - An Amherst woman told police a man living at a neighboring apartment entered her residence while she was away. When she returned home, she found him inside, where he attempted to grab her after she yelled at him. The matter is being referred to the man's support services after officers determined the man has a mannequin inside his home that he has dressed to look like his neighbor. (Cuh-RAAAAZZZYYYY)

Sunday, February 26th

•  MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS           12:59 p.m. - Jennifer H. Allen, 35, of Easthampton, was issued a citation for failure to use care in backing after the vehicle she was driving in the Boltwood parking garage collided with a vehicle driven by Barry H. Federman, 53, of Columbia Drive, police said.Damage to both vehicles was minor and no personal injuries were reported, police said.
  
  
 

March 9th (week of the Leap)

Wednesday, February 29th

• ASSAULTS             5:24 p.m. - A staff member at the Jean Elder House was assaulted by a client during an argument over a Pop-Tart.

Thursday, March 1st

•  SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY             12:34 a.m. - A man who tried to put graffiti on the side of a PVTA bus as it passed a College Street location was identified by police. No paint was applied to the bus.





March 16th.

Arrests and Summonses

•  Two intoxicated drivers were arrested early on the morning of March 12 following a road-rage incident that began on Amity Street.A police officer on traffic detail observed a vehicle squeal its tires as it turned from North Pleasant Street onto Amity Street and then begin tailgating a second vehicle at a high rate of speed as both vehicles headed west around 1:33 a.m. After the officer activated the cruiser lights, both vehicles turned onto University Drive, where they were pulled over.
  The lead vehicle was driven by Courtney M. Brooks, 21, of Rochester, N.H. When police observed she might be intoxicated and that she could be arrested, Brooks spit in the face of the responding officer.
  Brooks was arrested on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, assault and battery on a police officer, failure to stay within marked lanes, possession of pepper spray without a firearms identification card and speeding, police said.
  The second driver, Christopher M. Alviani, 24, of Rocky Hill Road, Hadley, was arrested on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, operating a motor vehicle making a hard and objectionable noise, following another vehicle too closely and speeding, police said.

• Sanyog G. Shitole, 27, of Colonial Village was arrested March 9 at 1:19 a.m. on South Pleasant Street on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and operating a motor vehicle with a lights violation, police said.     (what a great last name!)
• Pablo Hernandez, 23, of Northampton was arrested March 5 at 4:22 p.m. at Super Stop & Shop at Campus Shopping Plaza on charges of shoplifting by concealment $129.82 worth of candy bars and possession of a class A substance, heroin, police said.

Saturday, March 10th

• SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY           7:38 a.m. - A homeless man at a downtown ATM who had his pants pulled down around his ankles was told to leave the area.



Friday, March 23rd, 2012 (a quiet week)

Tuesday, March 13th

• Suspicious Activity          8:52 p.m. - Police took a returbance at a Village Park home was determined to be a resident angry about the outcome of an online basketball video game he was playing. Two days later, the man was again warned about bothering neighbors while engaged in the online competition.

• SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY          9:59 p.m. - An attempted abduction of a man from a Main Street apartment complex was reported to police. The man was allegedly grabbed by people from Springfield who tried to put him in a vehicle. He was able to jump out of the vehicle, suffering minor injuries. He refused to cooperate with police, which said there are safety issues for the public.

Wednesday, March 14th

• DISTURBANCES         12:46 a.m. - Police kept the peace between a boyfriend and girlfriend on Sunset Avenue after they got into an argument over going to Cancun for spring break.

Thursday, March 15th

• SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY             11:17 p.m. - An Ann Whalen Apartments resident told police someone entered her apartment while she was away and ate a meal of pork chops, rice and broccoli. Police said there were no signs of forced entry.

Friday, March 16th

• CITIZEN ASSISTANCE                1:32 p.m. - A man called the police station to inform the department that he intends to kill his former girlfriend. Police determined the man has mental health issues and no capacity to carry through on his plans.

Sunday, March 18th

• SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY            9:54 p.m. - Mushrooms being used at a North Pleasant Street fraternity were confiscated by police after one person got sick from using the drugs.