Blotter's Best: Attack of Flatulence Stops Traffic in Twinsburg and More

No. 1:

Editor's Note: This blotter item had the most page views of anything on our site in 2011.

This was not your routine traffic problem.

Twinsburg police got a call recently when a man driving on Darrow Road stopped in the middle of the road, got out and yelled "I have to fart" while running around his car.

He then got back in a drove off. Police found him parked at the water tower.

The man told officers he had been searching for jobs in nearby Solon. When they asked why he stopped his car in Twinsburg, he said he had to pass gas but couldn't because "it hurt too much."

Because of the man's psychiatric history, police had the man treated at University Hospital in Twinsburg.

No. 2:

Sometimes saving money is more trouble than it's worth.

A Bedford man thought it would be efficient to ask a Twinsburg police officer for directions to the closest Wal-Mart while the officer was at another traffic stop.

The quick-thinking officer ran the man's license plates for good measure and found a warrant out for him from the Bedford Police Department for failure to appear in court.

The man was arrested and handed over to Bedford police.

No. 3:

While they didn't tell him to do it, one man's irrational fear of snakes caused quite a stir at a local residence.

At 1:30 a.m. on May 7, a woman was startled awake when someone was pounding on the doors and windows of her house at the 10100 block of Ravenna Road.

Her husband turned on the outside lights to see a white male in his 20s standing on the roof of their car and running around it in circles, screaming he didn't want the snakes to get him.

When the husband yelled at the man, he rushed up to the house, demanding they let him in because he was terrified of the snakes. He told them his car ran out of gas on I-480 and he ran through the woods because the snakes were coming to get him.

Eventually he walked down the driveway and left. A police cruiser arrived 10 minutes later but the officer only turned on the spotlight and drove around the house a few times.

When police came back later that morning, they found the roof of the car was dented and the car was scratched. Neither the man nor the horde of slithering creatures was found.