Crime & Safety

OMG PD: Teens Biting on the School Bus

Check out these unusual police stories from around eastern Pennsylvania.

Written by Nate Adams

When You Gotta Sleep, You Gotta Sleep: Police found a man asleep in the middle of the intersection of Bryn Mawr and Union Avenues in Lower Merion on Nov. 13, at approximately 4:50 a.m., according to a story on Ardmore Patch. Read about it here.  

Again, When You Gotta Sleep, You Gotta Sleep: A man broke into a home in the 400 block of Hermitage Street in Philadelphia on Nov. 2 only to be found later bypolice asleep in a chair on the second floor, according to a story on Roxborough Patch. The details are here. 

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No Biting, High School Students: A Perkiomen Valley High School student was reportedly bitten during an alleged altercation between a 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl on a morning bus ride in October, according to the Pennsylvania State Police.Read more about it here.

Dirty Crime: Bethlehem Patch has the following story: the ashesof the victim’s mother were among the items taken in a burglary of a home business in South Bethlehem, city police said. Read about it here.

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Some Takes a Mile of Copper:  A man told police that every time workers leave a construction site in the 8800 block of Ridge Avenue things go missing—this time it was 5,000 feet of copper wire, according to a story on Roxborough Patch. Read more here.

About this column: OMG PD reviews the surprising, shocking, stunning and occasionally silly police-related incidents reported by Eastern Pennsylvania Patch sites over the last week. All people mentioned in these stories are innocent until proven guilty. Charges and arrests do not indicate guilt. Reach out to Nate at nathana@patch.com with questions about this column.


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