...this time in Chicago, reported by the Chicago Tribune:
The Chicago Police Department calls it an unfortunate mistake. Earline Jackson, a widow whose address was mistakenly listed on a narcotics search warrant, calls it the scariest night of her life...
The incident unfolded at 3 a.m. Friday while Jackson, who lives alone, was asleep. She said police knocked open her wrought-iron gate, pried open her steel door, then rammed an ornate wood door with a heavy object--causing a glass window to pop out and break on the floor.
Jackson said she ran outside in her nightgown because she thought someone had broken in. She said this had happened before, though not while she was at home.
Once on her back porch, she ran upstairs and knocked at the flat of her daughter-in-law, Katherine Jackson. When both women noticed police cars in the street, they went downstairs again.
"I saw them going through all my personal belongings," Earline Jackson said. "One of them had some of my clothes in his hand, and another one was looking under my mattress."
Link via Jeff Trigg, who adds the perfect one-word synopsis - "Insanity!"
Posted by Walter at September 8, 2003 10:17 PMInsane, yes, and not at all atypical.
Posted by: zombyboy at September 8, 2003 10:43 PMRepeat after me, PROHIBITION DOES NOT WORK
Posted by: dave at September 9, 2003 09:36 AM