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Scanner Traffic — 7/16/08

5:17 p.m. City Beach lifeguard reports that a park user is chasing a thief who's riding off on his Schwinn Predator bike toward Independence Point.
5:13 p.m. Now, the reporting party is saying that the bus he saw stopped under the overpass was a charter bus -- not a CityLink one.
5:09 p.m. Coeur d'Alene police are still trying to check on the welfare of the driver of the CityLink bus. His next stop is at Super 1 in two minutes.
4:47 p.m. A passing motorist reports that a CityLink bus might be in the process of being held up. The motorist said that the bus was stopped under an I-90 overpass westbound and the driver appeared to have his hands up.
3:01 p.m. Lakeview Drive (Hayden) home owner reports that a worker is unconscious in a willow tree at his house, about 30 feet up. He doesn't know if the man has been drinking.
2:01 p.m. A motorist reports that a car load of kids are shooting bottle rockets out of the windows as they drive around CDA.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.