Oh officer, don't mind me... I'm just toting my cash register home

It sounds like we have a burglar who like music, booze, money and "protected" sex. That shouldn't make it to hard to narrow down the search.......

More business burglaries reported
Myrtle Beach police are investigating two burglaries at local businesses that have similar circumstances to three burglaries reported last week, according to police reports.

On Friday, police were dispatched at 11 p.m. to The Center Project at 736 Eighth Ave., N., after an alarm was activated, police said. Officers found a large brick inside the front door and missing from the business were a videocassette recorder, assorted DVDs and CDs and assorted condoms.

A Myrtle Beach man was charged with burglary after police found him in the area of Tha Bar and Bodo's for those incidents, Knipes said.
The man was found carrying a cash register.

Attention Food Lion shoppers: There’s a sale on potted meat in aisle 8. Also, at the front of the store there's a crazy homeless man with a knife that is threatening to kill us all.

There's drunk, then there's Myrtle Beach drunk in which you apparently lose your damn mind and start trying to slash people in the Food Lion. Who would have guessed that cheap hooch makes people stabby? I think that he was just acting out the rumble scene from Westside Story. I hear that Broadway musicals are really popular with the homeless crowd these days.

Man threatens Myrtle Beach grocery store customers with knife
Tonya Roottroot@thesunnews.com
Myrtle Beach police used a taser on a man who fought with several people inside a grocery store and threatened them with a knife, a police report showed.
The homeless man was arrested after the incident that occurred at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Food Lion at 1430 S. Kings Highway, police said. He was charged with four counts of assault, possession of an illegal weapon and resisting arrest.
Police were called to the store for a fight in progress, but when the officer arrived he saw the man inside the store through the front window with a knife threatening to kill people, the report showed.
``The suspect was waving a knife at customers and yelling that he was going to kill them,’’ the officer wrote in his report.

With all the crack dealers, burglars and other miscreants behind bars, the Surfside Beach police turn their attention to the new threat: people feeding ducks. City also has plans to tackle plumbers butt once this crisis has past.

Surfside Beach officials aim to outlaw duck feeding
Residents could no longer be allowed to feed bread to the ducks, geese or other waterfowl in Surfside Beach under a proposed ordinance.
Town Council gave preliminary approval Tuesday to the ban; one more reading is required.
Town Administrator Ed Booth said the ordinance change is needed to be in compliance with the other laws. If approved, violators of the ordinance against feeding waterfowl could face fines of up to $200 or imprisonment for no more than 30 days.

If you had South Carolina as the most violent state in the country, step up and collect your prize.

Actually, I would step up to collect the prize but I'm afraid of getting mugged...

The FBI reported Monday that the state of South Carolina has the highest per capita rate of violent crime in the country.
According to the FBI, violent crime nationwide went down 1.4 percent in 2007, but in South Carolina, violent crime went up 3 percent.

Personally, I found this statement particularly disturbing:

It's not that there's a greater number of violent crimes, but the crimes that are happening are just way more violent." Says, Santos, a Police Officer. "It's more stab wounds, same amount of victims. Same number of hit and runs, but a larger percentage of those were dragging deaths. Of course, the Hammerhead Killer didn't help out things either."

Sounds Like a Grave Situation....

Sorry, it's Halloween and I just couldn't resist. Happy Halloween Everybody!




Posted on Wed, Oct. 29, 2008
Man steals shoes to attend funeral
A Florence man was arrested in Myrtle Beach for stealing a pair of shoes from Belk because he said he needed them to wear to a friend’s funeral on Friday, a police report showed.
Horace E. Hensley, 54, of 1132 June Way, was charged Tuesday with shoplifting less than $1,000, after he was stopped leaving Belk inside Coastal Grand Mall, the report showed.
Hensley told police that he took the shoes, valued at $90, and put them down his pants to steal them because he needed the shoes to wear to a friend’s funeral, police said.
Store security officials told police they saw the man take the shoes and then go to the men’s pants area and put them down his pants.

Rednecks? Check. Drunk? Check. Broken false teeth? Check. Conway? Check

We’ve got ourselves a blog post here people!!!!!!!!


Shoot, I was sure this was going to be an Aynor story. It's not really news in Conway either though. In either Conway or Aynor it's called "A Typical Saturday Night". I just wonder if they were they having a bonfire while blaring White Snake out of someone’s trans-am when the fight started?

I'd be disappointed if they weren't.

Sun News--Crime blotter
Criminal domestic violence On Oct. 14 in the Conway area, a man said he and his wife were arguing, and she kicked him in the mouth and broke his false teeth. He showed the officer broken false teeth but did not have any injuries. He was grossly intoxicated and did not know his name, age or birthday.

Myrtle Beach Hurricane Media Kit

Here are the must haves for any story in Myrtle Beach reporting about Tropical Storm Hanna:

*Pictures of worried looking officials sitting in front of a computer tracking the storm.

"I don't really know what I'm doing. I am

the janitor but the reporter told me to sit here and point at the screen"

*Interviews with worried tourists who are concerned that their vacation might be ruined.

"I hope that the storm don't cut short our fun"

* A picture of someone ignoring the advice from experts.

"I think that I'll just ride it out"