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Feb. 9, 2009 11:24 a.m. • 16 comments

11:40 a.m. A janitor is wanted after someone dropped a bottle of pop near the reception desk @ North Idaho College Library.
11:19 a.m. Workers at Jimbo Seamless Raingutters report a man sleeping in a Chevy Blazer at a nearby pocket park.
10:44 a.m. A mother on Hargrave/PF wants to file charges against her son b/c he stole a credit card from her purse.
10:27 a.m. Inland Northwest Bank/PF reports a suspicious male with long hair and facial piercings has just left after asking about the restroom. He then took something out of his pickup and ran across Seltice Way to Hollywood Video.
10:22 a.m. A large piece of metal is laying in the w/b lanes of I-90 @ Spokane Street/PF.
10:21 a.m. Amy in the Athol area believes she saw her lost dog in the back of someone’s pickup this weekend — and wants to know what she can do about it.

9:44 a.m. Someone is trapped by a forklift @ a Seltice Way business.

9:04 a.m. A jogger reports that a pitbull mixed chased her while she was jogging @ Clagstone & Custer/Athol Sunday.

8:38 a.m. CPD Blue reports that there are moose in the small cemetery @ Sherman & 23rd/CDA

8:16 a.m. A man wanted on at least two warrants reportedly is playing the gaming machines @ the Coeur d’Alene Casino/Worley.

16 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

MamaJD on February 09 at 11:46 a.m.
This may be a dumb question but what is a pocket park? Is that slang term for something? Would Larry Craig know what a pocket park is?
JeanieSpokane on February 09 at 11:52 a.m.
“10:44 a.m. A mother on Hargrave/PF wants to file charges against her son b/c he stole a credit card from her purse.”

O, honey. If I had a nickle every time I wanted to toss my delinquent son into jail, I would be RICH. The last thing he did was take old checks from a closed account and wrote himself checks for piddly amounts - $10 on one, $15 on the other. Horizon called me and said they were signed by ME but it didn’t match my signature and the note on the left said: “For Timmy.” And that’s my son’s name. Kids think we are dumb as rocks.
idawa on February 09 at 11:53 a.m.
a pocket park is just a small park. They are more common in big cities where land is expensive so small (generally one or two lot size) parks are the only ways that cities can create green-space. I have been lobbying the city to buy a lot across from my house (it used to be a medical clinic that a Dr. tore down to expand into multi-use building for the clinic, restaurant, and condos - but the downturn derailed the development) and turn it into a “pocket” park.
Bob on February 09 at 12:28 p.m.
If I ever write a story set in some white trashy little town full of rubes and hungry packs of mangy stray dogs, I will definitely have a business named “Jimbo Seamless Raingutters” prominently featured. Perhaps there it will be a murder mystery with a hard boiled detective who smacks around some of the employees of my Jimbo Seamless Raingutters to get the truth out of them. Maybe one of them gets the drop on him and pulls a hacksaw and my detective dispatches him by pistol whipping with his .38.
toadman on February 09 at 12:33 p.m.
“11:40 a.m. A janitor is wanted after someone dropped a bottle of pop near the reception desk @ North Idaho College Library.”

THIS is on the scanner? Wow. Slow day I guess.

SOMEONE GET OUT THERE AND ROB A BANK OR SOMETHING!!

sheesh.. slackers.
MamaJD on February 09 at 12:41 p.m.
I feel sorry for the gal who lost her dog in the Athol area. I just hate it when that happens.
DFO on February 09 at 12:44 p.m.
Bob; I shorthanded the name of Jimbo’s. Full name (for literary purposes): Jimbo’s Seamless Raingutters Siding & Roofing.
Bob on February 09 at 12:47 p.m.
That’s even better, DFO. And my prior comment up there was meant for the cop thread where I’ve reposted it until you read what I wrote and end up deleting it anyway. :-)
Bob on February 09 at 12:49 p.m.
OK, guess who I’m pretending I am:

Mama,JD I knew of,a fat lady who sat on
her pomeranian. and that really,
happened!
DFO on February 09 at 12:58 p.m.
No need to delete that one. It’s money.
MamaJD on February 09 at 1:07 p.m.
But did she sing?

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