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Dr. Strangelove sighting 9:53 a.m. - 1600 block of Main Street. Road Hazard. A man in an electric wheelchair was driving down the middle of Main Street.

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Dead on arrival? 11:06 p.m. - 4000 block of North Tamiami Trail. Suspicious Person. A man was found lying on the front doorway of a funeral home. No, he was not a delivery. He was just loitering and was asked to leave.

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Bowling for Bentleys 3:19 p.m. - 1000 block of Siesta Drive. Suspicious Incident. Five kids were seen rolling two-liter soda bottles into traffic and trying to hit cars.

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No refunds 7:36 p.m. - 1500 block of Main Street. Suspicious Incident. A driver called police to help him remove his ATM card, which was stuck in one of the new downtown parking meters.

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Backhanded compliment 12:02 a.m. - Main Street and Palm Avenue. Fight. Two acquaintances were having drinks at a restaurant bar. At some point in the evening, a third person told one of the men that he had an attractive girlfriend. That man's friend then added that she was much too attractive for him. The two friends began to argue, and the one who gave the backhanded compliment ended up with a torn shirt and a head butt to the face. He wants to press charges against his insulted friend.

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2:50 a.m. - 1000 block of North Tamiami Trail. Noise Disturbance. Complainant said the pressure washers cleaning a supermarket were making too much noise. However, it's likely if the store didn't clean the store, it would probably receive complaints that it's too dirty.

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Not so neighborly 12:06 p.m. - 700 block of John Ringling Causeway. Dispute. A man who is trying to sell his condo placed a for-sale sign outside of the condo building. One of his neighbors didn't like the sign there, so she picked it up and threw it in the trash. She said the sign was attracting people who wanted to look at the condo, and she didn't want them parking there.

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1400 block of Main Street. Animal Bite. A man in a pickup truck stopped a police volunteer to ask her about the new downtown parking meters. When she reached in his truck to hand him a brochure, his dog clamped down on her arm.

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900 block of Siesta Drive. Animal Problem. Officers responded to a report of a dead shark on a sidewalk. What they found was ... a dead shark on a sidewalk.

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Theft. An elderly man forgot his hearing aids by the swimming pool. When he realized he no longer had them, he went back to the pool, but the hearing aids were gone.

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