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AM Scanner Traffic — 2.4.10

Posted by DFO

Feb. 4, 2010 10:24 a.m. • 6 comments

11:43 a.m. 36YO male guest at Coeur d’Alene Casino has suffered a possible stroke.
11:29 a.m. A 30ish female is bleeding after hitting her head on a counter in a fall on Pristine/Rathdrum.
11:05 a.m. A 54YO male w/a history of substance abuse is threatening suicide @ Caroline & Ramsey.
11:03 a.m. A pickup engine is on fire @ Boekel & Meyer.
11:02 a.m. A 3YO boy named Ben was missing momentarily from Placer & Reed/Hayden.
11 a.m. A Post Falls school reports that the mother of a student may be doing meth.
10:22 a.m. Security at the Coeur d’Alene Casino reports finding drugs in a guest room. Suspects are believed to still be in the casino.
10:21 a.m. Sunnyside School/Kellogg students told administrators that “daddy was very upset” when he dropped them off this morning. They’d like someone to check on his welfare.
10:10 a.m. A blue pickup w/a camper is broken down on the road @ H95 near H53.
9:36 a.m. A light sedan w/its flashers one is broken down on the road @ H41 & Hayden.
9:11 a.m. CPD Blues are calling for medical help after finding a person with face trauma @ 21st & Sherman.
8:52 a.m. Patrol officer reports that H95 is wet w/patches of fog, south of Coeur d’Alene.
8:51 a.m. Patrol officer patrolling H95 sez: “For the people who have been traveling this road and meeting me today, I myself am splendid.”

Six comments on this post so far. Add yours!

JeanieSpokane on February 04 at 10:39 a.m.
The officer at 8:51 and 8:52 is happily talking to himself??
coeurgenx on February 04 at 10:55 a.m.
9:11 a.m. CPD Blues are calling for medical help after finding a person with face trauma @ 21st & Sherman……………Oh sounds like the Natives are restless at Chillers again
moscow_minidoka on February 04 at 10:58 a.m.
What on earth does the comment at 8:51 am even MEAN?
Cindy_H on February 04 at 11:13 a.m.
@MM: I think it means if you want to speed on H95, you’ll meet a splendid patrol officer.
moscow_minidoka on February 04 at 11:28 a.m.
@CindyH: Um, ok. I hate to go all “paper professor” on the ISP, but that officer’s grammar is incomprehensible.
spokelooneh on February 05 at 12:06 a.m.
“moscow_minidoka on February 04 at 11:28 a.m.

@CindyH: Um, ok. I hate to go all “paper professor” on the ISP, but that officer’s grammar is incomprehensible”

I had some sort of Advanced Writing class when I was in college, and the instructor, also a top administrator, was a former cop.

He said cops were terrible in writing reports. And overly complicated.

A cop never simply “got out of his car”, he always “alighted from his patrol vehicle”. Etc.

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