Heard from around the northwest suburbs this week. Police responded to a home where the teenaged son was on a rampage looking for his cell phone — and apparently destroying parts of the house in the process.

Later the same night a man walked into a convenience store and asked if there was any pot (marijuana) for sale.

In Florida a man call 9-1-1 to get a ride to the liquor store [AUDIO from WESH Orlando, Florida] … that got him arrested.

In the ‘Say That Again’ column we don’t get too specific on the location or time of the incident unless it is warranted.

Sometimes the police have to answer some bizarre calls about suspicious incidents. Sometimes they turn out to be good leads, and sometimes they just seem a little too far-fetched.

Last night Arlington Heights police got a call for water backing up in a sink that appeared to have human skin floating in it … and there were a lot of people missing from the apartment building lately.

Arlington Heights police investigated and found nothing to cause concern to open any further investigation.

Mount Prospect Fire Department responded to the 1800 block of West Catalpa for the report of a dog that returned home with a strange-smelling residue on its paws — sort of like some type of ‘stink bomb.’

Mount Prospect firefighters responded and investigated the dog’s paws and determined the dog had been sprayed by a skunk.

Did you ever see the story about the albino skunk sighted in Arlington Heights? Check out The Cardinal story Albino Skunk Trapped in Arlington Heights (with photos to prove it) …

Wheeling police got a report of a domestic argument Friday night with the husband reported to be letting the air out of all the tires of his wife’s car so she can’t go out.

General location/address withheld out of respect for each half of the marriage.

Tension for kids going back to school? Arlington Heights police received a report about 8:30 p.m. that someone left a ‘flaming bag of doo doo’ on a front porch in the 700 block of East Canterbury Drive. Canterbury is just north of Camelot Park in Arlington Heights.

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Cindy Economou, 38, accused of taking home Karl Lambert’s lower left leg from the scene of a two-vehicle collision on Interstate 95 at mile marker 118 in Port St. Lucie on September 19, 2008, has been charged with one count of petit theft — a second-degree misdemeanor. After deeming Lambert’s foot unsalvageable, St. Lucie County Fire rescue crews amputated the foot to free Lambert from the wreck. The amputation occurred about six-to-eight inches below Lambert’s left knee.

Economou claims that Deputy Chief Bailey of the St. Lucie County Fire District initially told her she couldn’t have the foot, but later said Bailey said “something” along the lines of “I don’t want to know” that she interpreted as “‘unexplicit authorization’ … ” so she took the foot from the scene and put in a freezer. She apparently wanted to use the foot later for training of her cadaver dog — a dog that is specially trained and used to find dead bodies.

The amputated part was eventually submitted to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach on September 24, 2008.

A scheduled hearing for Thursday has been changed to 9 a.m. March 30, 2009 for a jury trial before St. Lucie County Judge Philip Yacucci. If found guilty, punishment could consist of 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.

Related stories …
Ex-St. Lucie firefighter enters plea in foot theft case — St. Lucie County : TCPalm

St. Lucie firefighter accused of taking crash victim’s foot resigns — St. Lucie County : TC Palm