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Scanner Traffic — 5/7/09

Posted by DFO

May 7, 2009 4:55 p.m. • 5 comments

5:57 p.m. 4YO is conscious and alert after being run over by a roto-tiller. Didn’t get location.
5:53 p.m. 9YO son is hitting his mother @ Fantasy Loop home/Rathdrum.
5:41 p.m. A semi tractor and trailer is on its side @ Seltice & Huetter. No injuries.
5:01 p.m. Man in Port of Hope lobby/23rd Street wants to go into the woods and shoot his head off.
4:51 p.m. Loose horse on Hayden Drive & Coeur d’Alene Drive/Spirit Lake
4:48 p.m. Husband reports his wife called and said she wants to die, and there’s a gun in the house on the east side of Coeur d’Alene.
3:56 p.m. R/P reports possible illegal dumping @ Yellowstone Trail & Blue Creek Road.
3:05 p.m. Dalton Garden boy calls his mother from home to say that he and a friend were followed by 2 males in a vehicle who circled them. The boy didn’t answer the phone when his mother tried to call him back.
2:59 p.m. 56YO female has fallen and is unresponsive after possibly taking an overdose of medicine in the 7700 block of Heartland/CdA.
2:57 p.m. A former worker is worried that his ex-employer plans to discard his personal property.
2:10 p.m. Wal*Mart has apprehended two brothers for possible shoplifting.

11:35 a.m. Officer helping in trying to catch a vicious dog in Hayden Creek area sez he may have to shoot it if it charges again.

11:22 a.m. A ballast has popped & the lights are out in the NIC book store.

11:13 a.m. Another recycling truck @ I-90 & Spokane Street/PF reportedly is spewing debris out the back.

10:11 a.m. Stacy wants to talk to an officer re: a Apply 2 Save issue.

9:57 a.m. Dog catcher sez he’s unable to nab Cloverleaf pitbull.

9:25 a.m. Manager of a mobile home park on Cloverleaf/Hauser Lake wants to see officer re: maintenance man who was bitten badly by a pitbull Wednesday.

8:26 a.m. R/P wonders if there’s something wrong with a flagger on the Fernan Road project b/c she walks and talks “strangely.” But responding officer sez that’s her normal mannerism.

8:21 a.m. NIC Sentinel adviser Nils Rosdahl requests that maintenance workers clean recycling material from the newsroom b/c it’s overflowing.

7:51 a.m. A recycling truck has dropped recycling material, including metal, @ I-90 near Spokane Street/PF.

Five comments on this post so far. Add yours!

MamaJD on May 07 at 11:56 a.m.
DFO - does your scanner pick up NIC radio traffic in addition to police activity? Surely, Nils did not call 911 for overflowing recycling.
DFO on May 07 at 12:23 p.m.
>does your scanner pick up NIC radio traffic in addition to police activity? Surely, Nils did not call 911 for overflowing recycling — MamaJD<

Yes
Liz on May 07 at 4:59 p.m.
there sure seems to be a lot of pitbull action around these parts….

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