One of my guilty pleasures has to be reading police incidence reports in local papers because they're usually more amusing than depressing... at least in these parts, anyway. The scarier and more tragic stories tend to make the headlines, which I try to avoid because I get way too pissed off and sad. Anyway, I think it was Pete McCarthy who wrote that the best way to get to know a town or feel like a local is to read their neighbourhood papers. (On our first morning in Dublin, we read about two different chappies in separate area pubs getting impaled by darts ~ in the neck and cheek, respectively ~ the previous evening. "The Drink" was apparently involved in both cases. The next morning, over another coffee, there was another such report. And so on... Thus, note to selves: Avoid Irish pubs that serve alcohol with dartboards on the premises. Ummm...)
Anyway, these are my two favourite reports from last week, reported by Vera M. Chan-Pool for the North Seattle Herald Outlook, Friday, September 5th, 2008:
ROOF RATS?
A woman living on 25th Avenue Northeast called police at 11:45 a.m. on Aug. 21 to report damage to her roof that she says unwanted guests living in her attic caused.
According to the police report, though, the damage appeared to have been caused by an animal chewing on the roof composite.
The officer found no evidence of people living in the woman's attic, but she did find a "rather large concentration" of rodent feces.
While the woman insisted she did not have a rodent problem, her teenage son acknowledged that they did, but he was "too involved in a video game" to speak with the officer.
HAIR EMERGENCY?
The owner of a business in the 12300 block of 15th Avenue Northeast called police around 9 a.m. on Aug. 23 after she arrived to find the front door forced open.
The cash register was found broken on the floor, but no money was stolen. However, the suspects did take three ceramic flat irons and about 30 packages of hair extensions.
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