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Scanner Traffic — 1/9/09

5:24 p.m. Malfunctioning stoplights on Highway 41, causing traffic to back up onto interstate.

5:02 p.m. A twentysomething man is walking around the Slab Inn area/Post Falls swinging a golf club at the ground and appearing to be "totally out of it."

4:58 p.m. A man who appears to be drunk was walking n/b of the s/b lanes of Highway 95 @ Prairie. And later was spotted laying in a snow bank, twitching. 

4:51 p.m. 53YO female fell on ice in an apartment parking lot and hit her head @ 15764 Westwood Drive/Hayden.

4:35 p.m. R/P reports a bald man is standing in the middle of 2nd Avenue/Post Falls, threatening to shoot everyone if he doesn't get his dogs back. Her son told her that the man has a gun in his jacket pocket. He may own a red truck with wood racks.

3:11 p.m. Woman: "He wants you to turn down the music. I like it. But he doesn't."

2:51 p.m. 2 Huskies -- one white and one gray-and-white -- are running up to houses in the 2500 block of Ashland Lane/Hayden.

2:40 p.m. R/P reports a "rolling domestic" is occurring in the dark-blue pickup behind him @ Highway 95 and I-90. R/P has seen the male passenger punch the female driver who is crying.

2:16 p.m. Woman: "Tell her that Dr. Johnson is a god."

1:54 p.m. R/P reports his wife is missing from their Post Falls area home, south of Spokane River.

1:32 p.m. White garbage truck spewing trash @ I-90 & 15th.

1:24 p.m. In the 5700 block of Government Way, R/P complains that his partner in a property rental has parked his half-ton Chevy pickup on his side of the property.

12:47 p.m. R/P reports that a Hayden woman is hearing voices that tell her to kill herself. R/P feas the woman might do it, but she has no access to weapons.

12:44 p.m. Local man reports that two pitbulls are on his porch but they appear to be friendly.

11:53 a.m. Woman (I didn't get the location) has put her foot through her roof and is stuck. She isn't injured. But she needs help getting out of the hole in the roof.

11:36 a.m. Male on a dirt bike is tearing up yards near intersection of Poleline & Ridgeview/PF

11:08 a.m. R/P reports a green Mayflower truck is s/b from Spirit Lake, with the back open, exposing equipment he fears might fall out onto Highway 41.

 10:33 a.m. CPD Blue is looking for a man who called his parents in southeastern Coeur d'Alene to say he'd slit his wrists and was waiting to die.

10:03 a.m. From NIC, a maintenance man sez the "beeping sound" no longer can be heard at the library, adding that the sound was reported three or four days ago and that "someone may have fixed it."

10 a.m. Motorists in white Toyota Tundra reportedly has run people off the road e/b on I90 from NW Blvd exit, using hand gestures to mimic a gun. Later spotted on Appleway.

9:16 a.m. Officer No. 1: "He had on something that looked like pajama pants." Officer No. 2: "Are you sure he wasn't wearing Carharts or something like that?" Officer No. 1: "No, he had on pretty colorful pajama pants."

 9:01 a.m. Officer reports there's a deer carcass to pick up on the e/b shoulder of I-90, M/P 20 (about 5 miles east of CDA).

8:58 a.m. PFPD Blue reports: "I need an office to stand by. I have a gentleman with an attitude."

8:52 a.m. Logging truck with two trailers reported speeding on Mica Hill (I-90)



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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