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I couldn’t resist posting this item from the El Dorado Police reports:

Last Friday at 5:30 a.m., officers were dispatched to the Wal-Mart Supercenter after employees reported that a white male — naked and covered in mud — was on the property. The report doesn’t specify whether the man had been inside the store.

A short time after being arrested and released on this incident, the man was apprehended again, only this time near a woman’s home sitting in a creek bed.

The woman said that she heard someone beating on her door at approximately 1 p.m. Saturday, and told police that the man began throwing rocks at her home. He then began threatening her and refused to leave the property.

The report doesn’t note whether or not the man was nude during the harassment episode. One can only hope he wasn’t.

**UPDATE** The man was arrested after the second incident as well and has since bonded out of jail.

Now I’m not saying that this car isn’t one of the most awesome things I’ve ever seen, because it is. But I don’t really like footing the bill for the U.S. Air Force’s latest recruiting gimmick.

The winged-branch of the military has actually created two highly customized cars — the first car is a white Ford Mustang called “X-1″ and the other, seen above, is a black Dodge Challenger called “Vapor.”

No word on just how much these cars cost, but I’m guessing upwards of about a million each. As one blogger pointed out, the recruits likely won’t be able to drive these hotties, so what’s the point? Click here for more.

El Dorado Police Officer Scott Harwell, who has been on the force for a little over a year, was severely injured at around 3 a.m. this morning when an alleged drunk driver struck the back of his vehicle.

Harwell, 35, was standing behind his unit after working a car/deer incident in front of the Power Zone gym when a Ford Escort driven by 24-year-old Tommy Ray Lacaze plowed into him, pinning the officer between Lacaze’s vehicle and his own.

Blue lights were flashing at the time, according to PD sources.

Harwell is in stable condition at the Medical Center of South Arkansas.

Look for more in Tuesday’s News-Times.