First Real Blog Post -- Kind of Disappointing

Well, this here is the first official blog post I am doing for this class, and I must say, I'm a little disappointed! I told you last week that I would highlight hilarious police blotter stories from the Ellensburg Daily Record, but as I looked at this week's blotter, nothing really struck me as hilarious. In fact, a lot of it looked like crime you would see in any town.

Most of the crimes I saw on this week's blotter had to do with auto break-ins and auto thefts, which is not really that exciting to me considering that I am from Sunnyside, where it is not unusual to open Monday's newspaper and see "20 cars stolen over the weekend!" The rest of the crimes involved other thefts, vandalism, a gas drive-off by an elderly woman, and even some space-wasters such as "a dog was reportedly barking" (probably a nuisance) and "two people were reportedly standing outside of a vehicle that was in a ditch" (may have seemed suspicious, but how do you know that's not their car?)

Yeah, my first weekly blog about the Daily Record's police blotter is disappointing. I definitely was expecting more funny small town police blotter entries, but there weren't any this week. I mostly enjoyed reading the blotter itself, which is much more detailed than Sunnyside's police blotter -- I mean, in Ellensburg, all of the crimes, arrests, and ambulance calls are extremely detailed (fire/ambulance calls even include the age of the person and their medical condition). In Sunnyside, the police blotter is a daily news article consisting of "15 domestic incidents, 13 assaults, a report of animal abuse, etc...". I don't know, I guess the crime rate in Sunnyside is so high that a traditional police blotter would take up too much space on a newspaper page.

I hope I can create better blog entries in the future. This Tuesday I get to ride along with an Ellensburg police officer as a class assignment, so I'm sure that experience will yield some interesting blog stories. I don't know... I might end up seeing only a few smashed car windows.