Police Blotter 4/1/12

After a couple of low crime weeks, Ocracoke deputies got busy.

“The party season has begun,” said Ocracoke’s favorite law enforcement officer.  Tickets were issued, arrests were made and hands were cuffed. 

Public nudity is discouraged.  "We told some nekkid folks to get a room,” said the Sergeant.  A retired minister and his wife were encouraged to stop dancing in the streets and return to their own home.

A local man, often seen cruising in his red ford truck, was stopped and issued a ticket for driving at excessive speeds.  "We've given him lots of warnings but have been sympathetic because of his age," officers said.  "But we've never seen anyone consistently drive at such high speeds." 

The sheriff's department said that by far the worst offense of week came not from a rowdy visitor, but from one of our own, a former Miss Hyde County who resides on Sunset Drive.  The deputies were called three times in one night and forced to join the wildest party they had ever witnessed.

Police Blotter 4/1/12

“We just couldn’t get her to tone it down," said one officer.  “There was music, dancing, singing, and loud laughter until dawn.  No one in the neighborhood got any sleep.”

Deputies issued three noise ordinance citations, but don’t have much hope it will help.

“We expect to be back there, sooner or later.  Good times like that can’t be stopped,” they said.

Despite the late night, the homeowner was up and sunning early the next morning and seemed oblivious to the pain she’d caused her neighbors.

What lesson can we derive from this?

“Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN."     -- Aldous Huxley

 

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