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Scanner Traffic — 3/20/09

Posted by DFO at 4:55 p.m. on March 20 Comments (3)
  • 5:47 p.m. Man in brown Monte Carlo has clipped fences and telephone poles and is driving the wrong way on Greensferry, near Ponderosa/Post Falls.
  • 4:27 p.m. A local library reports two teen boys are vandalizing the bathroom.
  • 3:20 p.m. Some 30 juveniles are gathered on Mullan Avenue/Post Falls, possibly to watch a fight.
  • 2:52 p.m. Illegal burn near a propane tank reported on 1300 block of 13th Street/CdA.
  • 2:43 p.m. Post Falls police are looking for a reported fight near the library.
  • 2:39 p.m. Woman reports she was trapped in her car in her driveway by a wandering chocolate Lab and another dog.
  • 2:13 p.m. A man walking his dog @ A & 6th streets in Plummer slipped on the ice and injured himself. He was unable to flag anyone down for help for quite awhile.
  • 2:03 p.m. A piece of trailer tire is causing a hazard on the Veterans Memorial Bridge, east of Coeur d’Alene.
  • 1:17 p.m. A small pickup with Washington or California plates @ English Point/Hayden Lake may have been stolen.

  • 11:42 a.m. Injured animal on Sun Meadow Road, near Worley area nudist colony.
  • 11:11 a.m. A woman is complaining of neck injury after a two-vehicle crash between a brown Toyota and an SUV that is blocking Honeysuckle & Kathleen.
  • 10:18 a.m. Someone is in a Higgens Point home without proper code.
  • 10:15 a.m. A man on Red Tail Hawk Road/Bonner County believes he is suffering alcohol poisoning after drinking for the last two days.
  • 9:51 a.m. An 84YO woman is laying on the floor of The Salon on Government Way (next to Papa Murphy’s), complaining re: shortness of breath.
  • 8:57 a.m. A resident @ 5811 Christopher/CDA reports he has extinguished a fire in his laundry room but wants the fire department to check out the situation.
    • Three comments on this post so far. Add yours!

    • JeanieS on March 20 at 3:06 p.m.

      First, I read:
      “2:39 p.m. Woman reports she was trapped in her car”

      then

      “in her driveway”

      and I got curious how a person could get stuck in their driveway and read:

      “by a wandering chocolate” and I stopped and thought, hmmm, chocolate - I have Dove's chocolate in my second drawer at work. And ate a couple.

      “Lab and another dog.” Huh? I mean, chocolate is what would get me stuck - in the driveway, in the elevator, in my chair, …

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    • marmitetoasty on March 20 at 3:13 p.m.

      Munching on a chcolate covered turkish delight as I read JeanieS's comment LOL

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