5:21 p.m. PFPD Blue advises that 2 girls are waving @ traffic from the I-90/McGuire Road overpass and not doing anything else (in case dispatch gets calls).
4:45 p.m. Someone dropped a poodle out of a vehicle @ Wilbur & Pinegrove/Hayden.
4:37 p.m. Union Pacific reports that a train almost hit an e/b white Ford p/up w/crew cab that ran the signals on Highway 54/Athol.
4:23 p.m. A vehicle is fully engulfed in fire @ Highway 41 on-ramp to I-90. Fire is spreading.
4:13 p.m. Several callers report a newer blue pickup has almost had several head-on crashes as it weaves n/b in s/b H95 lanes from Parks Road/Athol. Update (4:19 p.m.): Driver rolled to a stop and now is passed out in a ditch, near Trinity. An R/P has locked himself in the pickup so the man can’t drive off if he regains consciousness. (Update 2 4:27 p.m.): Male has regained consciousness and become combative.
4:12 p.m. Robert @ Pastime/Athol wants help getting back his pickup he loaned to a woman (also at the bar) three months ago.
4:06 p.m. Wal*Mart won’t press charges against a female for shoplifting although she has prior convictions for petty theft. Store is looking for her male companion.
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3:35 p.m. Male about 65YO is unconscious on sidewalk in front of Moose Lounge, 4th & Sherman.
3:33 p.m. 3 to 4 people in white passenger car are threatening to kill R/P @ Black Bay Park/Post Falls.
3:08 p.m. 2 Honda passenger cars — one orange and the other orange-and-black — are racing along 15th Street/CdA.
3:03 p.m. CPR is being performed on a 20-week-old baby who is struggling to believe @ Sandwich & Henry/Post Falls. Update (3:11 p.m.): Baby is breathing again.
2:58 p.m. ISP officer is stopped w/a stolen car on I-90 @ M/P 17, east of CdA.
2:33 p.m. Officer wants Street Department to pick up Lazy Boy sofa in median on Ramsey Road, south of Dalton Avenue.
1:15 p.m. Woman in blue Cavalier stalled & blocking traffic @ Ironwood & Lincoln Way.
12:54 p.m. CPD Blue bike cops are searching Tubbs Hill for a man in his early 20s with black-and-blue hair and numerous facial piercings who may be suicidal and have cuts on his neck. The man had asked to use a female’s phone on east side of hill. Update: Man found at Government Way & Spruce and taken into protective custody.
12:46 p.m. A fiftysomething woman is suffered chest pain @ US Bank call center/Seltice Way.
12:18 p.m. A bale of hay is impeding traffic on I-90 @ M/P 5 (Spokane Street/PF).
@ Cabbage; I'm glad I wasn't drinking coffee when I read your comment. It'd be all over my computer screen now. I'm going to leave the mistake up. It's one of my better ones.
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D.F. Oliveria is an associate editor, editorialist, columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Recently, the Idaho Press Club selected Huckleberries as the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog. In 2007, the Society of Professional Journalists selected Huckleberries Online as the best news blog in the five-state Pacific Northwest. The print version of Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Tidbits Column contest sponsored by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University has cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
Cabbage Boy on June 24 at 4:04 p.m.
“3:03 p.m. CPR is being performed on a 20-week-old baby who is struggling to believe…”
glad that got resolved okay. Maybe there is hope for our resident non-believers… :)
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DFO on June 24 at 4:18 p.m.
@ Cabbage; I'm glad I wasn't drinking coffee when I read your comment. It'd be all over my computer screen now. I'm going to leave the mistake up. It's one of my better ones.
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Cabbage Boy on June 24 at 4:21 p.m.
:)
Yes, that is one of your best.
What is the CPR for struggles with believing? Catholic-Protestant Reformation?
Catharthic Protestant Revival?
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Sisyphus on June 24 at 4:39 p.m.
Capitulation of Provided Rationality. ;-)
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