Local happenings or who says rural life is boring!?#

To wit:

# 1:  A father and son from Shelbyville landed in jail Saturday night, after a day of golfing and drinking at a Johnson County golf course turned violent, according to police.

William Rains, 45, and his son, Daniel Rains, 21, were both preliminarily charged with battery in the incident at Cypress Run Golf Course on Ind. 44, about four miles east of Franklin, according to a release issued by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department.

Officers from the department were called to the golf course shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday on a report of a disturbance in the parking lot.

Police found Daniel Rains with “marks on his face and back.” He told investigators his father attacked him because he would not tell a friend who was with them to shut up, according to a police report.

Daniel Rains told police “he took a defensive position and was taken to the ground” by his father, who allegedly bit him in on the lip during the scuffle, he said.

William Rains also had “obvious fight related scratches and marks on him,” the report said. He told police he “lost it,” when he said his son tackled him.

The sheriff’s report said “William was obviously intoxicated and even admitted to drinking all day during this golf outing.”

Both men refused offers of medical treatment, the report said. William and Daniel Rains, who live in the same household, according to the police report, were transported to the Johnson County Jail.

#2: Last Saturday night, about 10:30, a naked man was discovered lying in the middle of the intersection of Stardust Place and Stardust Drive. A couple who live on Stardust said they almost ran over the naked man as they were driving home from an evening out. Police and an ambulance and a crowd of neighbors arrived soon thereafter and the naked man was wrapped in a sheet, protesting and ranting and trying to escape all the while, and, after some attempt at reasoning with the naked, sheet wrapped man by a police officer, was transported by ambulance to somewhere. No one in the crowd of neighbors acknowledged recognizing the man. One local man commented laughingly that the man "appeared to be cold." No one knows the resolution of this case yet, but, I, for one, am dying to know the rest of the story.

#3: The following incident was reported by a local woman, who, as is her custom in summer, was sitting on her front porch, hidden from the street by large evergreens. 

The woman stated that a teenage boy with long hair came strolling down the street playing a guitar. She had seen him in the neighborhood before. He was accompanied by a  teenage girl doing cartwheels. From the  top of the hill until they were out of sight, the woman marveled, the girl continued uninterrupted, doing  perfect cartwheels, and the boy continued to play the guitar. As an aside, the local woman commented that she was sure these were not the teenagers who had stolen the ashtray from a table on her front porch earlier in the week. She stated that she had her suspects but refused to name these suspects in the interest of neighborhood harmony.