5:12 p.m. A 4YO child is screaming and hitting a woman driving a black Isuzu pickup on Highway 95 & Canfield.
5:04 p.m. R/P reports that a child in a go-cart isn’t yielding right-of-way and almost got run over.
4:59 p.m. 2 males are involved in a fist fight @ 2525 E. Seltice/Post Falls.
4:27 p.m. Tidyman’s/Post Falls has nabbed a shoplifter.
3:26 p.m. A white Ford pickup that turned off I-90 onto Ramsey Road is leaking gas all over the road.
2:37 p.m. A 43YO male, complaining of stomach pain, is pinned between a piece of equipment and a house in 7304 block of Valley Street/Dalton Gardens. Update: Injured man has been freed from overturned equipment. He’s conscious.
2:09 p.m. A sixtysomething male in an orange T-shirt and blue jeans is walking along City Beach toward Independence Point, taking photos of girls in bathing suits.
1:53 p.m. A water truck and Jeep have crashed @ 95 & 53 (near Garwood).
1:38 p.m. A 15YO CdA girl reports that she was walking past a residence when she was pulled into the yard and robbed.
1:16 p.m. A woman on Raspberry Lane/Hayden wants help finding her shut-off valve b/c a basement pipe has burst.
1:13 p.m. Larry Spencer wants to talk to someone re: “problems in Bayview.”
1:06 p.m. R/P who called earlier today re: a neighbor’s grass fire that was burning his fence now says the fire is burning his shop building.
12:56 p.m. EMTs are attending a 5YO who suffered second-degree burns Tuesday.
Was talking to a log truck driver yesterday at Twin Lakes and apparently there was a cougar siting around 5:30 a.m. when they first rolled in, a full grown cougar crossing the road near the end of Upper Twin. Most folks I spoke with on my morning walk today said they suspected they were around but had never seen one.
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toadman on June 03 at 2:07 p.m.
“1:13 p.m. Larry Spencer wants to talk to someone re: “problems in Bayview.” ”
Uh oh.. Herb? You on that?
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Arpie on June 03 at 2:08 p.m.
“Problems in Bayview”?-Did Herb's potato salad go bad again? I'm glad Spencer is on it.
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toadman on June 03 at 2:15 p.m.
Spencer is definitely a troubled citizen looking for concerns.
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sue on June 03 at 4:02 p.m.
Are all of the scanner calls for 911?
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Cabbage Boy on June 03 at 4:05 p.m.
Sue, I think it is police scanner, 911 and NIC security.
And I don't think it is the potato salad, Herb, did you say something bad about Spencer?
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DFO on June 03 at 4:09 p.m.
@Sue; no some of the scanner traffic is for local government entities and North Idaho College.
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mike_s on June 03 at 5:33 p.m.
Was talking to a log truck driver yesterday at Twin Lakes and apparently there was a cougar siting around 5:30 a.m. when they first rolled in, a full grown cougar crossing the road near the end of Upper Twin. Most folks I spoke with on my morning walk today said they suspected they were around but had never seen one.
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