Third Blog Post -- Catching Up With the Blotter

Hey everyone, sorry about the delay. This is an extremely hard assignment for me to keep up with, considering that I don't blog in real life. I guess Steve just wants us to prove to him that we can post entries on blogs. I'll try to do better for the rest of the quarter. In the meantime, I have read the Daily Record Police Blotter archives for the past three weeks to try to dig up some interesting events that I have ignored. I don't know how funny or interesting any of these events are to you, but these are the events that made me wonder about why someone would report them to the police:

Four puppies were reportedly chasing cars on Sunlight Drive. (January 27, 2010)

A dog was reportedly carrying around a dead chicken on 15th Avenue. (January 29, 2010)

A 65-year old Ellensburg man wearing a tan coat was reportedly opening doors for people and telling them "good morning" as they walked into buildings on University Way. (February 4th, 2010) (Someone called the police to tell them about this man? Are you sure he isn't just a nice man willing to open the door for you?)

A person reported seeing a large amount of paint spilled on 5th Avenue. (February 4th, 2010)

A 30-year-old Cle Elum man reportedly was standing next to a crossing sign covered in mud watching trains pass. (February 10, 2010) (Wow, someone reported THIS to the police? Sounds like not a lot goes on in that small town!)

A person reported someone was using a garbage Dumpster on Main Street. (February 10, 2010) (Could the person using the Dumpster have been a store/restaurant employee rightfully using the Dumpster to take out their garbage?)

A man was reportedly sitting in his truck by a boat launch at Irene Rinehart Park, got out of the vehicle, walked toward a trail and stood in the bushes for 20 minutes. February 19, 2010)

A man reported that an older woman took a picture of him as she drove by on Third Avenue in Kittitas. (February 19, 2010) (Sounds to me like some man is making a big deal out of nothing. I would be more concerned about the older woman taking pictures from behind the wheel of her car!)

A person reportedly entered a building on Walnut Street listening to music. (February 19, 2010)

Not to mention the numerous blotters, too many to post, about animals in the middle of the roadway, making loud noises, or, to put it simply, acting like animals. I don't think people should really call the police to report an animal in the road unless the animal poses a direct danger to those people who are driving.

Well, anyway, these are the most interesting items from the Daily Record police blotter for the past few weeks. Again, these may not be funny or interesting to you, but they definitely are items you would only see on a small town police blotter. These items don't give you the whole story about the event, so you never know for sure if the event really was serious enough to get the police involved. Maybe the man saying "good morning" to everyone was trying to scope out a person to rob or attack? Maybe the woman taking a picture of a random man was going to have it published somewhere without permission? The police blotter may make it sound funny, but you really don't know how serious the event is because the blotter doesn't give the whole story. That concludes this post; I'll be back this week sometime with more funny and/or interesting events from the Daily Record Police Blotter!