Crime & Safety

Tip of the Week: Don't Jam Razors Down Your Pants

East Windsor stars in this week's list of craziest police news.

Let's be delicate here, and just file this one under crimes "OMGs From NJ PDs"does not recommend you try.

(Official disclaimer: "OMGs from NJ PDs" does not endorse any crime at all, no matter how minor, or occasionally funny, and also thinks you should call your mom more often.)

Teaneck police arrested a 54-year-old Bogota man after store surveillance at a CVS allegedly caught him .

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The man was later spotted by police and identified by an employee of the CVS, authorities said; he was charged with shoplifting.

Now to be clear, these were probably still packaged and comparatively safe. But you won't see OMG taking any chances with sharp objects in that area.

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Each Monday, Patch takes a peek at some of the more surprising, shocking, stunning and occasionally silly police-related incidents reported throughout New Jersey for "OMGs from NJ PDs." Some of the other reports:

More from the You-Don't-Tug-on-Superman's-Cape Category: It's one of our favorite categories, actually. And this one was another contender for the top spot of this week's OMG column. Toms River Police have arrested two people on charges of burglary relating to a string of break-ins at local homes— The chief had installed surveillance cameras at his home just a week earlier, and cameras from nearby businesses proved useful as well. "The investigation is not over," the chief said. "We are continuing to investigate." We'd bet.

We've All Been There. Wait, You Guys Haven't? Um ... Yeah. Us Either:  East Windsor police responded to a home after the resident reported finding a man . Police said they found the man asleep on the floor inside, and that he could not explain why he was there other than that he had been drinking and could not recall what happened the night before. The man was neither Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper nor Ed Helms

I Just Can't Bear the Tension: Authorities from several agencies worked together to . They shot it with a tranquilizer dart, brought it down in a fire truck's ladder bucket, and expected to release it in a wooded area. "It's kind of exciting and different, a new experience,"one firefighter said. "The thought crossed my mind, 'I hope he doesn't wake up, because my foot is right next to his mouth."

More than Words: It's hard to say just how sincere vandals were when they apologized for spray-painting a Toms River snack stand. After all, they wrote the apology in spraypaint, on the snack stand. Alongside a collection of other phrases and drawings is "" in dripping black paint. Another message next to it states "No Vandlism" (the author jammed in the missing 'a' afterward). We're guessing the owners would have preferred if the remorse had come before, and not during, the act.


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