3:54 p.m. R/P finds injured cat under a pine tree @ 12th & Monarch/Post Falls.
2:58 p.m. R/P reports finding a dog in a tree at a local gun range and wants animal control to take it to the Kootenai Humane Society.
2:45 p.m. R/P reports a sixtyish male is blue & not breathing on a tractor in the Athol area. R/P is unable to get man off the tractor to begin CPR.
2:38 p.m. PFPD Blue has been tipped off that there’s suppose to be a fight at Kiwanis or Qemiln parks @ 2:45 p.m. Tommy & Larry are planning to duke it out.
2:07 p.m. A male is walking along Highway 41 in the Post Falls area throwing litter at passing cars.
1:32 p.m. Wife @ East Seasons Road/Rathdrum home calls police on husband, whom she says has marijuana in the house and won’t leave.
1:11 p.m. Something’s going on in the Panhandle State Bank parking lot on Mullan/Post Falls. It may involve the stolen-car post below. Officers have one person in custody and are looking for a heavy-set blond female companion. They have checked out Wal*Mart, The Dollar Store, and a credit union. Update: Woman passenger now caught, too.
1:09 p.m. ISP troopers are looking for a stolen 2008 gold RAV-4 that’s on I90, near Pleasantview.
12:27 p.m. A container is leaking something on Government Way in front of Cenex.
11:59 a.m. An R/P reports he was flagged down by a woman who found a semiconscious seventysomething male on the ground near a trailer on Mariah Loop/CDA.
11:50 a.m. Rathdrum police are looking for a man on a bike in the area who has failed to register as a sex offender.
11:15 a.m. A 65YO male is refusing to leave New Hope Services.
8:36 a.m. A man in the 11000 block of North Alaska Loop reports he has accidentally hit his elderly wife with his vehicle. She’s in the house waiting for an ambulance.
OK, lets review the situation. First as the old goat, I had nothing to do with any of this. Secondly, we have a sick cat on the ground under a tree, while a tree climbing dog gets stuck. Did I just jump through the looking glass?
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JeanieS on March 05 at 3:08 p.m.
ok, why is the dog in the tree? How did he get there? Is he still in the tree?
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Cabbage Boy on March 05 at 3:10 p.m.
“ok, why is the dog in the tree? How did he get there? Is he still in the tree?”
Dunno, I bet the goat is involved.
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misc on March 05 at 3:24 p.m.
Man, I bet Tommy kicks Larry's ass.
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Herb Huseland on March 05 at 8:26 p.m.
OK, lets review the situation. First as the old goat, I had nothing to do with any of this. Secondly, we have a sick cat on the ground under a tree, while a tree climbing dog gets stuck. Did I just jump through the looking glass?
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