10:57 a.m. A woman is yelling at a man who is sitting on the side of the road across from the ISP center on Wilbur.
10:51 a.m. A large man is yelling at a woman with 2 kids to get out of her car in front of Super 1/Kathleen. The store manager is with the male.
10:44 a.m. A baby fell and hit its head when its mother and a male got into a shoving match on Mill.
10:40 a.m. Woman wants to see an officer re: some neighbor boys who poured lighter fluid on her dog and ignited it last Wednesday.
10:02 a.m. A Canfield Middle School mother wants to see an officer re: several boys who punched her son in the stomach this morning.
9:50 a.m. Rathdrum Auto Parts wants to see an officer re: a customer who removed a stereo from a vehicle and didn’t put it back after he decided not to buy it.
9:27 a.m. A Ford Escape is illegally parked in a handicap spot (but broken dispatch prevented me from catching the location).
8:57 a.m. Dispatcher: “I have that call from Templins in reference to a large snake.”
8:49 a.m. A caller from the Children’s Center wants an officer to take a girl to juvie who’s threatening to break rules. The girl is not being violent.
some little juvies in Spokane lit a cat on fire a few years back. I also heard that a different crowd lit a homeless man on fire, also in Spokane. Sadly, I think the cat incident generated more public outrage than the homeless man did.
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Liz on June 02 at 11:46 a.m.
WTF on the 10:44????
Some people just really shouldn’t reproduce…
Cabbage Boy on June 02 at 11:57 a.m.
Wow, such violence today.
20something on June 02 at 2:27 p.m.
Who lights a dog on fire!? That’s sick!
Liz on June 02 at 4:51 p.m.
some little juvies in Spokane lit a cat on fire a few years back. I also heard that a different crowd lit a homeless man on fire, also in Spokane.
Sadly, I think the cat incident generated more public outrage than the homeless man did.