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An Unusual Way of Panhandling

Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 11:24PM by Registered CommenterMike Smith in | CommentsPost a Comment

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The story didn't end with this. This was in Miami Beach, Florida.

Let's return once again to the ever-strange and irresistible Tucumcari police blotter, where in the May 21, 2008 Quay County Sun, we discover the advent of a brand new form of panhandling—a form, it seems, which involves casually threatening passersby with death by fiery explosion.

Monday [May 19, 2008]

• At 3 p.m., an anonymous caller reported that two unwanted subjects were begging customers for money and throwing lit cigarettes at the gas pumps at a business located on [Tucumcari’s] Mountain Road. Officers advised that, with the help of a Quay County Sheriff's Deputy, they arrested one female and transported her to Quay County Detention Center.
No word yet on whether or not this may have also been a bizarre kind of suicide attempt—or on what happened to the other suspect.

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