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A Somerville man was arrested last week after allegedly breaking into a woman's apartment and threatening her with a BB gun while looking for a former tenant, whom he called Paulie. [Somerville Journal]

From the Oddblotter goldmine that is Somerville comes this teachable moment. After Somerville police arrested a man for allegedly refusing to leave his girlfriend's apartment—and smashing in a window—the suspect allegedly depantsed himself, and declared, "I’m naked. You can’t take me like this."

Last Friday, State police arrested a 21-year-old World of Warcraft gamer who had driven to Madison, Wisc. to kill a 17-year-old rival, according to reports. Staties arrested Gloucester gamer Trevor L. Lucas on the Mass. Turnpike just outside of Boston on a warrant out of Wisconsin. They reported that Lucas was packing a real arsenal: "four semi-automatic hand guns - two of which were loaded - along with four loaded, large-capacity magazines, two stun guns, three pepper spray containers, two assault knives, two expandable police batons and seven sets of handcuffs."

The Cambridge Chronicle reports that Cambridge police are looking for a man with an alleged taste for feet. The fetishist reportedly accosted a woman outside of Whole Foods who was sporting a delicious pair of pumps before taking matters into his own hands—or at least his own tongue—and getting an unconsented to taste of instep. The man remains at large. He seems to have fancy tastes in feet, but Bostonist suspects that it won't be long before he succumbs to the fecal matter on the feet of a woman wearing flip flops. [Cambridge Chronicle]

-- Apparently, Eric Clapton was right. It is in the way that you use it. If you live in Hingham. A woman from the tony town was arrested after "assaulting" a store clerk with an apple juice bottle and a Slim Jim. She escaped the scene in her black Saab convertible after ripping down a store flag. There's more. She must have blended in with all of the other Saab drivers in Hingham as she eluded the cops for a day. She was brought to justice after an officer observed a Saab driver suspiciously singing along with loud music. Probable cause, clearly. She was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. The comments on the Patriot Ledger's story contain many of the jokes running through your head. [Patriot Ledger]

An unidentified man knocked over a Mansfield Shaw's supermarket last Wednesday by posing as a cash register repairman, police say. According to reports, the criminal mastermind told store employees that he had been sent to fix cash registers in Taunton but that he ended up in Mansfield instead and offered to "fix" some cash registers while he was in the neighborhood. We're not 100% certain that he didn't use air quotes. The story was likely enough that store managers sent him to an ailing cash register, which he allegedly repaired by removing the $460 in cash that had been stuck in it.

Kids, smoking really is hazardous to your health. What started as a smoke between neighbors turned into a murder as Braintree police said Lucas Walters, 28, allegedly killed Jeffrey Phillips, 31, with an ax after the men argued about money Walters owed Phillips. Phillips brandished a rake before Walters hit him in the back and head with the ax. According to prosecutors, Walters kept the body in a shed for two days, and hid the murder weapon, before burying it in Connecticut. Walters bought gas and cigarettes using Phillips' credit card and allegedly sold his TV, computer and Xbox to buy crack cocaine. Walters turned himself in and allegedly told police "I killed him by accident. I’m crazy." He was charged with murder and pled not guilty, held without bail and faces a hearing on August 25. [WCVB, Herald, Globe] All charges alleged until proven under law.

With apologies to John Mellencamp, nothing is more American that batshit criminals. Bostonist found a couple of alleged criminals with a hint of patriotic flair.

Isn't it fitting that the Boston Herald can provide an entire Oddbblotter by itself? Dudes, thanks for always delivering our crazy crime fix.

This Bostonist takes crime seriously. Even flashers. But, flashing is kind of funny. Or, the coverage of it is. Especially if you're Fox25 and your name is Erin Hawksworth. Police in Salem, N.H. are looking for an unnamed man who exposed himself to a woman at the the Mall at Rockingham Park. Fortunately, maybe, there is a surviellance video of the alleged, ahh, assailant, walking in the mall in the moments before he exposed himself. Hawksworth began her report by having to suppress a giggle - just look at her face - and then described the exposure as an "inappropriate act".

We're no experts at robbing people by swordpoint, but we feel certain that we could do a better job at it than the mysterious man, dressed as a ninja, who tried to knock over a Tedeschi convenience store and a dry cleaner in Weymouth. The Patriot Ledger reports that the man threatened a clerk at the convenience store Monday night with a sword, but made a crucial ninja mistake:

The Good Time Emporium, which closed its doors for good this weekend, holds a hallowed place in the Boston Blotter hall-of fame. (This Bostonist will never forget the time that 200 patrons remembered the "reason for the season" with an impromptu Easter Sunday melee.) Were you expecting everybody's favorite go-cart/laser tag/assault and battery locale to close with a classy bow or curtsy? Good Time was not going out like that.

Someone stole an Incredible Hulk statue that was outside a movie theater in Lowell in honor of the latest "Hulk" movie.

Fun palace and Boston Blotter superstar the Good Time Emporium is closing as a direct result of IKEA's arrival in Somerville.

According to police, a group of ten cyclists rode together down Mass. Ave. around 11pm on Saturday, swerving in and out of traffic. When a motorist swerved into traffic to avoid hitting an object, the cyclists allegedly became testy. They traded words with the driver that might well be called terms of estrangement before swarming the vehicle and stopping it by throwing a bike in its path, according to police.

On Bostonist's viral video feature, we saw a gentleman compose a song dedicated to the Bruins, and he threw in a little "pee pee dance." It was cute. But someone did a not-so-cute honest-to-goodness "pee pee dance" at TD Banknorth during the Bruins' game:

If the crocuses and unexpected sunshine haven't clued you in, robbery suspect Timothy Flaherty, 51 of Lawrence, has provided further evidence that spring is upon us. Last night, after allegedly robbing a victim on Beacon Hill, Flaherty led police on a wild chase through the Common and the Public Garden before diving into the Frog Pond Lagoon to elude capture. (We assume that it looks much bigger in the dark.)

The BPD Blotter recorded a spat between two neighbors that turned ugly last night on East Concord street when one neighbor accused the other of hooking.

Last night, an alleged T Bag on a Forest Hills train must have really wanted to get caught being a perv. While in the presence of the MBTA police, aka The Grope Patrol, this gentleman, uh, threw down the gauntlet. Or at least unzipped his fly:

A quick-thinking restaurant owner in Gloucester learned that a frozen ham can be an effective defense against a robber. On Wednesday, the restaurant owner came upon a man who was in the process of liberating meat from the owner's fridge. Not sure why he went for the meat instead of the money, but alleged robbers aren't always the brightest of bulbs.

A tipster let us know that the BPD had some spectacular headlines recently. Of course, Bostonist cruised over for some Oddblotter material. First up was the headline "What a Lady!" from Thursday night. Bostonist is used to seeing men emptying their bladders on trees, stop signs, sides of buildings, what have you. But we're not used to the following incident that happened in the South End:

A pair of blotter items reveals that the crack cocaine in Somerville is not making residents any smarter.

Yesterday, the BPD released its daily announcements after Bostonist wrapped up its own blotter list. Many, many thanks to commenter Middleman for pointing out the following instances of criminal minds at work:

A recent piece of the Boston University police blotter reads like a lost, possibly porny, chapter of the fairy tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears":

Okay, okay, we gave the Somerville Journal a little heat for a boring blotter headline, but they definitely have our attention with the following: "Witness Says Knife Suspect Was Eating a Chicken Leg With Sauce."

Oh, it's been so long since Somerville's Good Time Emporium, your place for go-karting and miscellaneous misdemeanors, has popped up on the blotter. But a loquacious perp had a lot to say when police arrested him early on the morning of December 29.

Here's the top Oddblotter story of the year--just in time for Christmas! You've already seen some impressive tales, but the winning Oddblotter story of the year is a real head-scratcher.

4. Feel It Calling in the Air Tonight. A Phil Collins fan in the South End was really feeling the music. He could feel it, "calling in the air," so to speak, and he played it loud. Even worse, his neighbors told the BPD that it was "like this every night." He was arrested because he wasn't going to turn down that Phil Collins without a fight. Even though weirder crimes exist in this countdown, the original Oddblotter post prompted a lively conversation about whether or not Phil Collins is the "worst thing to happen to modern society."

Bostonist is looking back on the year in weird, silly, or just plain creative crimes. Yesterday, you met some pugnacious bowlers, but you haven't seen anything until you meet a certain postal employee, overeager college students, and an exceptionally creative gravedigger.

Bostonist is looking back on the year in weird, silly, or just plain creative crimes. We'll be counting down the top 10 over the next few days so you can find out just how wild it gets around here. Today's list includes produce, assault-inducing donuts, and Big Lebowski references galore.