It generally takes me about a day to get information on weekend incidents posted to Lights & Sirens. Poor Sgt. Trent McKinley, the Lawrence police spokesman; I always have a huge list of calls from the weekend that I ask him to check on for me on Mondays.

He was gracious enough, as always, to tell me about the following incidents from Friday through Sunday. So without further ado, here are a few weekend antics, plus one horrific story from yesterday:

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A couple of Wal-Mart customers allegedly pushed a store cart filled with three TVs out of the store at 550 Congressional Drive without paying for them around 10 p.m. Sunday. McKinley said the pair allegedly loaded their loot into a car, which made it all the way to the intersection of Ninth and Iowa streets before officers stopped the vehicle.

Police recovered the TVs – and several other items allegedly stolen from Wal-Mart’s south Iowa Street store earlier that day, McKinley said. The two were issued notices to appear in court on suspicion of theft.

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Someone broke a window at the Dollar General at 1811 W. Sixth St. just before 10:30 p.m. Saturday, and an employee saw a person “run past the front door of the store,” McKinley said. The call was initially reported as a burglary, though McKinley said it didn’t look like the alleged suspect actually entered the store. Police continue to investigate and are reviewing security footage.

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I heard over the scanner yesterday that an industrial accident at Brown Industries LLC at 807 E. 29th St. left one young man in critical condition with his head stuck between two trucks — possibly between one truck’s axle and another truck.

The victim, a 29-year-old man, was taken by air ambulance to Kansas University Hospital with life-threatening injuries, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Division Chief Eve Tolefree said Tuesday. She would not disclose the victim’s name or further detail, but I’ll keep following. If you hear of any more information about this man, please let me know. What a horrifying accident.

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Downtown was the scene of a number of violent incidents over the weekend. The first involved a panhandling man and another man dressed as a pirate.

Some time after 8 p.m. Friday, a man dressed as a pirate approached a man asking passersby for financial assistance in front of Weaver’s Department Store at 901 Massachusetts St. The “pirate” allegedly then stood “directly in front of the man’s sign” that he was holding to solicit donations, McKinley said.

This allegedly ticked off the man, “who belligerently confronted the man dressed as the pirate” and the two began physically fighting. Police issued the two men notices to appear in court on suspicion of disorderly conduct.

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And the second: A man was knocked out near Ninth and Massachusetts streets around 1:45 a.m. Sunday after another man confronted him amid an argument with his girlfriend. The second man punched the boyfriend once, McKinley said, and he fell to the ground unconscious. An ambulance was called, and the alleged puncher ran from the scene. Police did not locate him.

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And now for our regular roundup of police calls. As always, I’ll remind you that this is a list of noteworthy calls I pulled from the Lawrence Police Department call log. Not all calls yielded police reports, and many may have gone unsubstantiated. The list is meant to give you an idea of what kinds of calls police are responding to within a given time period.

This list is a collection of calls that police responded to between Monday and Tuesday mornings.

Also: Pay attention to how many auto burglaries there were last night. I’ll try to find out more on my end. If your car was broken into last night, let me know.

Violence

– Disturbance (verbal or physical arguments): 4

– Domestic disturbance: 2

• Domestic battery: 1

– Battery: 2

• Fight in progress:

Traffic

– Noninjury accident: 8

Medical

– Medical: 5

– Suicide threat: 3

Miscellaneous

– Suspicious activity: 6

– Suspicious activity with weapons: 1

– Noise/Nuisance: 1

• Runaway: 1

• Fireworks: 1

• Police pursuit: 1

Property crimes

– Burglary: 3

– Theft: 9

– Auto burglary: 9

– Trespassing: 4