Crime & Safety
It's Always Fun Till the Van Topples Over
Unusual police incidents from New Haven County.
A late-night joyride by four teens through Waterbury, Naugatuck and Oxford in a stolen van ended some time after 11 p.m., police said. What ended the joy was the vehicle toppling over, police said, . (No serious injuries resulted, according to reports.)
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A New Haven man, stopped by police because, they said, he was riding a scooter without proper eye protection, was allegedly packing a Taser, according to the New Haven Register.
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at the Tuffano Amusements Carnival in the Hamden Mart parking lot prompted police to shut the carnival down an hour early.
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Ironic: A and was caught on video.
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A lot of people in retail businesses have probably dreamed of this: Police said that when a customer became disruptive, an employee of a Milford business .
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As if tax season wasn't stressful enough, when they tried to file their taxes and were rejected because someone filed a bogus return on their behalf.
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