One evening, an Oakland man stole a pick-up truck and drove to Berkeley. As he was driving by a fraternity house, he spotted a nice motor scooter parked in the driveway. He decided to steal it, too. So, he put the stolen motor scooter in the back of the stolen pick-up truck and started to drive away. 

Fortunately, he was spotted by a group of fraternity members who tried to stop him. Some of them stood in front of the pick-up, while another one jumped into the back of the truck. The thief hit the gas and the fraternity members scattered. However, the one in the back of the truck held on, yelling "help!" 

The car thief tried to get rid of his uninvited and noisy passenger by making a few sharp turns. But one of the turns was a little too sharp and the pick-up flipped over, landing upside down. 

Berkeley police arrived quickly and found the uninjured car thief still in the cab of the truck holding on to the steering wheel. He was arrested. The fraternity member was also uninjured. 

The case went to trial and the thief testified in his own defense. Here is what he said: 

"It was wamn' down the street. Under stand? I wasn't doin' anything. All of a sudden I see this pick-up truck. It's flyin' through the air. Understand? This weird pick-up truck is flyin' through the air. And it lands right on top of me! Bam! The next thing I know, I'm arrested and goin' to jail. That's the truth. Understand?" 

The jury did, in fact, understand. The verdict was guilty. 

San Ramon police received an arrest warrant from Kansas. The fugitive, a woman wanted on forgery charges, was believed to be staying at her parents' home in San Ramon. Officers figured the woman probably wouldn't open the door if they just knocked so they came up with a plan. 

One of the officers dressed up in an old Halloween chicken suit, featuring yellow feathers, webbed feet, and a beak. As other officers hid nearby, the chicken/officer knocked on the door. A woman's voice from inside asked, "Who is it?" The chicken responded, "I'm a chicken and I'm here to deliver a singing telegram." When the woman opened the door, the chicken/officer clucked and squawked while he tried to get a good look at the woman's face through all the feathers. Finally, he recognized her as the wanted forgery suspect, pulled off his chicken head, pulled out his badge, and said, "Don't give me any trouble, lady. I'm in a fowl mood."

A man wailing down a street in Baltimore caught the attention of a police officer. "He looked weird, the way he was wailing," said the officer. So, the officer decided to have a talk with him. 

As they were talking, the officer noticed the man's sweatpants started to move all over. i Suspicious, the officer searched the man's pants. Hefound 26 pigeons. The man was later charged with stealing the birds from several neighborhood coops. 

An Alameda man decided to rob a Domino's Pizza deliveryman. So he telephoned Domino's and ordered a pizza sent to an address on the west end. When the deliveryman arrived and got out of his car, the robber stole his money and the pizza. 

Alameda police arrived a few minutes later. Officers knewthat a person ordering a pizza from Domino's must provide a phone number. Sure, they knew it was unlikely the robber would give his own phone number. But they were thinking, maybe this guy wasn't very sharp. 

Their hunch paid off. The phone number was traced to an apartment on Buena Vista Avenue. The robber was found hiding in a closet.

The owner of a small market in East Oakland got fed up with a bunch of drug dealers who kept gathering outside his store. So he installed a loud speaker over the front door and started playing nothing but Barry Manilow records. The drug dealers haven't been back since. 

"One L 23. A four-fifteen at .... The RP reports a man and a woman have been having sex on his front porch for the past four hours, and he's getting tired of watching them."