5:11 p.m. 4 people involved in a fight with a baseball bat @ Mullan & 10th Place/CdA.
5:10 p.m. Someone has finally caught the two horses that have been running loose on Ridgeway, causing a coupla R/Ps to call authorities.
4:08 p.m. EMTs are trying to revive a male in his 20s who attempted to hang himself in a basement aparttment on Garden Avenue. He’s having trouble breathing.
4:07 p.m. T-bone accident b/n blue Toyota & gray Trailblazer is partially blocking i/s @ Chase & Prairie.
2:20 p.m. Unwanted person @ Willamette Dental, 943 W. Ironwood. A female is sitting in the lobby, mumbling to herself.
2:12 p.m. R/P reports that loud music coming from a white Cadillac is causing a safety hazard on Highway 95, north of Appleway.
2:05 p.m. 2 horses are loose @ Ridgeway & Grand Tour.
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2 p.m. R/P reports that several horses are in bad shape @ a Kidd Island Bay location.
1:32 p.m.
No one seems to know why the fire alarms are going off @ Borah
Elementary. No smoke or fire is showing. No drill was scheduled. School
is being evacuated.
1:10 p.m. A unconscious man is slumped over the steering wheel of a vehicle @ Miller & Second/CdA.
12:42 p.m. Motorist reports a 2-3YO boy carrying a Teddy bear and blanket is in the middle of Lincoln Way @ Harrison Avenue/CdA.
12:18 p.m. Boy stuck in a trampoline on Montana Avenue/CdA.
11:01 a.m.
Dog that lives in front of Daisy’s Pet Boutique/7600 Government Way is
causing a safety hazard by darting in and out of traffic. It’s now
headed toward Aqua and Highway 95.
10:05 a.m. A fire
alarm @ Twin Lakes Elementary proved to be nothing but a regular drill.
The school forgot to notify the fire department that it was going to
stage a drill.
8:58 a.m. A resident wants to see police re: a vehicle driving through his front yard.
8:31 a.m.
A transformer has blown on Merry Weather Road/Bayview, about 300 feet
from Perimeter Road. Kootenai Electric has been contacted.
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
KevinTaylor on May 18 at 1:23 p.m.
Hahahaha.
Boy Stuck in a Trampoline could be the working title for my life.
I love the daily scanner.
Cindy_H on May 18 at 1:51 p.m.
“No one seems to know why the fire alarms are going off @ Borah Elementary.”
Obviously, some wily third-grader didn’t study for his spelling test.