Police Log 06-25-02: The shackled drunk shuffle
by Kevin L. Hoover
Posted on 06/26/2002 11:42:42 AM PDT by mhking
Police Log 06-25-02: The shackled drunk shuffle
by Kevin L. Hoover
12:36 p.m. At least the 13th Street marketplace made it to the Noon hour before shopliftingness' first finale.
2:47–4:01 p.m. Dirty deeds done in dirt cheap in Redwood Park.
5:11 p.m. A boy-girl bout of fisticuffs outside an historic Plaza storehouse had an explanation about as easily understood as love. She said they'd been arguing when he made a motion that suggested a blow was coming, and a male bystander confirmed this. Another guy said the guy she'd been arguing with had assaulted her, and he'd tracked him down for an argument during which, both admitted, they'd spat on each other. She said the threatening gesture guy had told her he was going to show up at her house later and "finish things." After some talk about restraining orders, everyone headed out in separate directions.
8:05 p.m. An unwitting wallet donor swam at the Community Pool while the locker room was plundered.
8:45 p.m. There's no recorded instance of trailer park tensions actually being solved to everyone's satisfaction with the use of nunchuk sticks, yet a young man was seen brandishing the martial arts weapon and a well-tended mullet hairdo at neighbors and had even exacted punishment on a car. Surprisingly, cocktail refreshment had preceded the display.
2:19 a.m. Ha ha, traffic cones placed at random in the street. What will they think of next, and can they do so sometime soon?
2:33 a.m. An unholy agglomeration of sonic stylings, including elements of Varese and Zappa punctuated by early Terminator battlebot bombast and tinged with pre-Armageddon junkyard clamor arose from a Stewart Court home. A creative raccoon scampered away in the officer's flashlight beam.
3:31 a.m. A man got in some quality staggering-in-and-out-of-traffic time on 17th Street.
5:50 a.m. Perhaps in training for his future as an Arcata staggerer, a male person was seen stumbling near Seventh and H streets.
7:37 a.m. A pit bull and its sidekick, a black lab, ruled Benjamin Court for a time.
9:07 a.m. Tires slashed on Stromberg Avenue.
9:54 a.m. Them Benjy Court dogs were lured into custody, then pounded.
3:21 p.m. A man giving away puppies at an F Street supermarket had a novel motivational spiel – any which aren't adopted will be thrown from a bridge, he said. The pups were taken to the Humane Society.
10:54 a.m. The person who had the bright idea of involving their poochie in a barbecue had to escort the pet home.
Noon
Travelers, fighting
Neither chose to press charges
But that warrant – ouch.
12:26 p.m. Tell that guy to quit buggin' me, she asked, and it was so.
5:34 p.m.
A hang-up phone call
Star 69 rang a person
Restraining ordered.
9:55 p.m. Drawn to Q Street on a report of people fighting, police cited a suspect for carrying alcohol in a vehicle while underage, garnished with marijuana.
7:54 a.m. A woman said a suspicious man had stolen her daughter's underwear from her backpack during a ride on a county bus. Due to "non-cooperation" of the driver, the mom was referred to bus management.
10:50 a.m. A dire answering machine message notwithstanding, a woman said she was not suicidal.
2:16 p.m. A man who thought the honor system would protect his valuables in an unlocked car learned that ethical constraints in parking lots generally bear on whether anyone's looking or not. In this case, no one was.
2:23 p.m. Five persons and a dog amassed in the 800 block of J Street. Two travelers were arrested on suspicion of drinking in public.
2:51 p.m. A guy wore a blue towel, and that was all, to the Library. Employees said they weren't concerned.
3:06 p.m. Ranger Bob hates medical marijuana patients, wants them to suffer and shakes them down for their medicine, which he keeps for himself. That explains why he dispensed profound injustice to the infirm at the 14th Street parking lot medical clinic.
5 p.m. A bicyclist zooming southbound down G Street on the east side sidewalk shot into the intersection at 12th and G streets and hit a car which had stopped at the stop sign there. The biker was OK and mommy arrived to take him home.
10:42 a.m. A resident of the 2100 block of Frederick Avenue reported burglaries to her and her parents' vehicles, and said there had been others in the neighborhood.
11:33 a.m. Sewage dripped from an RV parked in the lot at a Valley West shopping center. A bucket contained the effluent, and the driver, who had no license, was warned against driving the thing anywhere. A store manager gave the motorhome a few hours to get gone, and the non-driver said he was "working on" finding someone legal to drive it away.
1:59 p.m. When the woman in Apartment O had her moving-out party, one of the dozens in attendance turned out not to be such pal – her wallet and credit cards disappeared sometime during the evening.
2:09 p.m. Travelers in the 14th Street parking lot were cited for letting their dogs run loose.
4:22 p.m. A panhandler and her sick-looking dog were seen at a Valley West gas station for a couple days running. Someone finally called police about the dog, and the woman said the dog had been acting strangely. She was to monitor the dog's well-being, and do something if it declined further.
6:07 p.m. A man acting under cocktail-o-matic immunity stood in the middle of South I Street and stopped a woman's car in order to speak strangely to her. Another shackled-drunk shuffle on Samoa Boulevard.
7:52 p.m. Images of a firearm pointed at a child broke the routine of a photo development technician at an F Street variety store. Police decided the shots were of a pellet gun, with another child pretending to be frightened.
8:50 p.m. A loose dog roved Cedar Avenue, even running up on a woman's porch, much to her exasperation. The dog's owner unconvincingly claimed it had been chained, but was warned anyway. When police left, the woman endured mocking taunts of "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty," which she interpreted as a call to her cat to lure it into the doggie danger zone.
11:11 p.m. We may assume the somewhat flattened ex-opossum at Seventh and K streets would've sucked at Frogger.
Michael Moore confounds anti-corporate conventional wisdom ("Small businesspeople are rednecks.")
A worthy summer destination for any Freeper.
Any suggestions for places to stay and visit in No. CA that will make the kids thank me?
We have a pair of twins, 15 years old. There is a 15 year old world, and we are not in it. I'm told it's made up of a vast expanse of shopping malls, unlimited spending money, "hot guys", and no rules.
If you can find that place they will thank you.
Dave in Eugene
I absolutely understand, and I am not in their world. I gave the kids a choice of staying home for three weeks alone or coming with us. I have never heard them agree with me so fast.
My second attempt at negotiation consisted of, "You're coming whether you like it or not.", "It will be good for you", and "Maybe we will be able to squeeze in a little West Coast shopping."
Maybe we really DO have kids, to pay us back for what we did to our parents!
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