DES MOINES, Iowa - Temperatures are rising, and it seems like the number of police calls is going up, some of them pretty strange, like the guy arrested for beheading chickens last week, or the naked man arrested in Des Moines last weekend.
Is there a connection?
"Bizarre behavior's not seasonal. Crime sometimes is." Des Moines Police Sergeant Paul Parizek says. "We'll definitely see increases in crime as the temperature goes up."
"You mentioned the naked guy arrested, well we pulled a naked guy out of a snowbank in January." Parizek says.
The hotter it gets, the hotter tempers seem to get.
"...as more people are going outside, we'll see an increase in violent crime. I think people get irritable. Disputes people will have are sometimes over the most ridiculous things,over a parking space at the zoo, between soccer Moms." Parizek says.
As for the two naked guy arrest stories, both were drug-related.
Photo of Des Moines naked guy arrest by permission of photographer, who asks to remain unnamed.