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Interesting Police Blotter Tidbits: Paranormal Rape

Category: Brains and StuffWeird
Posted on: May 2, 2008 3:27 PM, by Steve Higgins

steve_icon_medium.jpg Delusions are the strangest things...
Once, back in the day, when I was interning in Ted Kennedy's press office we got a call from a woman (this was a pretty usual occurrence) demanding to know why the CIA, et. al. were monitoring her brainwaves. Our quick thinking secretary (a Harvard grad making 16k a year for the privilege of working in the Senate) told her to hold he was going to go check the list. He let her sit for a few minutes, got back on the phone, and told her she wasn't on the list and there must be a mistake. He would have her mind control removed immediately and he was sorry for the mix up. She never did call back from what I heard. Perhaps a new form of therapy?

Ghosts.JPGIn any case... here's an entertaining police blotter from Federal Way, Washington:

At 4:02 p.m. April 10, two women went into the Federal Way police station claiming that over the past two years, a paranormal person has been placing sensors on their bodies and visiting them in their house at 28600 block of 25th Place South. They said that the ghost has been having sexual intercourse with them. One woman said that these incidents started in Kent and continued when she moved here. The other woman said that this just started now.

•At 3:36 p.m. April 12, a woman contacted the Federal Way police to report that a person was cutting a large tree down. She was concerned it could fall on her car or on her house located in the 30800 block of 22nd Avenue South. The woman who was trying to cut the tree was contacted and said that she needed to cut the tree because it was hazard.

•At 10:10 a.m. April 11, an unknown person cut the vinyl top of a woman’s car in the 30800 block of 8th Avenue SW, and gained access to the vehicle. All belongings inside the car had been gone and the total damage for the vehicle was about $1,200.

At least not all the crime in Federal Way is odd...

-via boingboing-

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#1

man that's bizarre.

sometimes i start thinking the ninjas i see on the walls are hallucinations. maybe they are, but they sure do make for a good security system.

that sounds normal, right?

Posted by: Innerlegend | May 3, 2008 1:09 AM

#2

Dare I ask--does that involve sliming with ectoplasmic residue??
If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call...??

Posted by: AnnieH | May 4, 2008 11:16 PM

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