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Road rage leads to disorderly conduct charges: Brecksville Police Blotter

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DISORDERLY CONDUCT, BRECKSVILLE ROAD: A pair of Brecksville residents were cited for disorderly conduct following a June 8 driving tiff.

Police were notified of the incident, which came to a head in the parking lot of the Shell TrueNorth gas station.

The two men, ages 48 and 56, initially exchanged words before getting out of their vehicles in the parking lot, where the incident turned physical.

As in most instances, the combatants gave contradicting stories as to who was at fault. Both were cited and the incident was forwarded to the Brecksville Prosecutor’s Office for review.

DRUG ABUSE, BRECKSVILLE ROAD: A cracked windshield prompted a Brecksville police officer to checkout the registration of a silver Audi A5 June 7.

The officer found out that the owner, a 20-year-old Broadview Heights man, had a suspended license and also had warrants out for his arrest. The driver matched the description of the owner and the officer stopped the Audi on Brecksville Road near Greystone Parkway.

The driver admitted that he might have some warrants but asked that he not have to go to jail that day. Unfortunately, the plea fell on deaf ears and the man was asked to exit the vehicle.

In his pants pocket, the officer found three 20-mg pills of Adderall XR, a schedule-two drug commonly used for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy. The man admitted that the pills were not prescribed to him.

He was cited for unsafe motor vehicle, driving under suspension and possession of drugs.

VEHICLE DAMAGED, WEST CROSS CREEK: A resident reported to police that sometime between June 5 and June 10, someone flattened the right rear tire on her gold Chevy Blazer while the vehicle was parked in the lot by her home.

The damage was discovered at 10:30 a.m. June 10 by the victim’s mechanic when he came to the residence to fix the brakes. According to the mechanic, the damage appears to have been done by a sharp-edged instrument, possibly a knife.

THEFT, COMMUNITY DRIVE: A forgetful resident left his wallet on the bench in the men’s locker room at the Community Center June 10.

When he returned a few minutes later, $118 in cash was missing. The man questioned several young people who said they did not know of any theft. Police also questioned several individuals with the same results.

Madrid, Toledo, and returning to the True North Strong and Free

&Nbsp;As you guys probably already know, I'm not a huge fan of flying in airplanes. I like the novelty of sitting down and knowing that in less than a day I'll have travelled a distance that would have once taken people months to traverse, but I hate feeling cooped up in a narrow space, with the sounds and smells and movements of both the plane and the passengers, the sleeplessness, the ear-popping, the slight but ever-present nausea... First world problems, I know, which is why I put up with it. :P But I have to say, Madrid definitely had more greenery: LOTS of parks. I should also note that I find man-made parks within cities... interesting, especially those found in Europe. It's not really "nature" (not as I, as a Canadian, know it): the rows of trees too neat and perfect, no underbrush or old growth... Still, the shade and greenery are welcome retreats from the heat and hustle-bustle of the gray stone and concrete of the rest of the city. Anyway, we also spent many hours in the Museo Del Prado. It's a very extensive art museum, and is chock full of beautiful artworks, but the organization isn't intuitive: there are loads of dead ends, rooms that lead into several hallways which lead into several other ones and come out to others... and it's not always apparent if you've been there before or if you're going to a new section and have you seen everything yet... They give out maps of the floor plan, but they're of only limited utility. Organizational issues aside, it's an amazing museum with an extensive collection of European art, mostly paintings but also a selection of statues. I'm very fond of portraits of monarchs and aristocracy (the fashion! The characters!), and some of Goya's most famous works are there too. (That one of the execution squad of Napoleon's troops and the Spanish freedom fighters was unexpectedly large and moving in person.) There were portraits of saints, buffoons, dwarves, even a bearded woman breastfeeding. I saw works by van Dyke and Titian and others which I had previously only seen in art history textbooks... so it always gives me a thrilling feeling to see them in person.  Some of the works gave my sister and I definite WTF moments, though, most of them in religious artwork. Lots of saints, especially women like the Virgin Mary, were painted ascending to heaven on beams of light and elevators of laughing naked babies. There was one work with a dove on fire (possibly shooting lasers or sunbeams from god?

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