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Altercation reported at bingo game Appears to have started over selling cosmetics
February 18, 2013 2:00 AM
PORTSMOUTH Two women got into a fight over the sale of beauty products during a game of bingo for seniors at Feaster Apartments on Friday, police said.
According to the public police log, Portsmouth officers responded to the community room at the senior living apartment building on Court Street at 2:06 p.m. after taking a report of "some pushing and shoving" due to a disagreement over the sale of Avon products.
Sgt. Kuffer Kaltenborn said the call came during a regularly scheduled bingo game for the seniors living at the facility. He said one woman was upset at another for setting up a table to sell her cosmetics during the game.
"The altercation appears to have been started over the fact that one resident was upsetting another by (selling Avon and disrupting) the scheduled bingo event that occurs," he said.
The police log indicates officers cleared the scene of the initial call, only to be called back two hours later by a person who "is insisting on pressing charges now."
According to the log, the alleged victim had marks on her arm.
Kaltenborn said officers are still investigating whether an assault actually occurred during the altercation.
Complicating matters is that a third party initially reported the assault, he said.
"A third party alleges that the one that wanted to sell her products grabbed the wrist of the other person who wanted to play bingo," he said. "It's not the victim that alleges the crime. ... She's not sure if she was assaulted or not."
The names of those involved were not released because no one has been charged with a crime.
Kaltenborn said anyone who may have witnessed the altercation should contact investigating officer Matthew Young at 610-7619.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20130218-NEWS-302180330
Silent3
(15,219 posts)...would be a good name for a small English village.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)My mom was an Avon Lady in the '60s--but she never assaulted anybody's odd bodkin.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)and the person who heard me was just appalled. Evidently it is a minced oath of Jesus
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)EMILY: Have you ever had to chase a perp on your bike?
KUFFER: It has not happened yet. I have waited for it to happen. I thought I was going to have to a couple years ago in Prescott Park. I arrested a young man for having marijuana on him, and he decided to run from me, basically, even after I had the handcuffs on him, but he ran out onto one of the fishing piers, where he soon realized his tragic, tactical error wasn't going to get him far.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040820/NEWS/308209980
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Just in case. Though the perp would have sunk like a stoner.
Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)believing a story with a policeman named "Kuffer Kaltenborn?"
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Portsmouth police detective Kuffer Kaltenborn poses with Buttercup, a ferret he found standing in the roadway between two lanes of traffic on Monday night. Police are seeking the pet's owner.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)with the puns in this thread!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Sometimes I just can't help myself. I valiantly resist all attempts to muzzle me!
Javaman
(62,530 posts)The two woman yelling and screaming at each other but stop quickly each and every time a new bingo number is called, then resume between new number call.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Need I say more?
Beacool
(30,249 posts)some lady interrupting Bingo by selling Avon products?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)That's just dangerous.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)That sly Angela Lansbury was just inciting old people to act up!
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Isn't it time we did something about crossword puzzles?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Then we'd be safe.