Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Cops


I’ve written a little before about our old neighborhood. It had its charms, (freeway close, Toys R Us and good bagel bakery adjacent) and its not-so-charms (everything else). Most notably, there was a lot of police action. The sounds of sirens and helicopters circling overhead were hourly occurrences.

Last fall we moved 16.9 miles and 3.4 universes away to the place we live now. Our new small-ish town is best described as sleepy. I mean “sleepy” in a handful of Ambien with a vodka chaser kind of way.

There is a local newspaper here that comes out every Wednesday. Eight swell pages filled with Senior Center Pancake Breakfasts and Junior High Track Meets. My favorite (obsession) section is the small column on page six reserved for “Weekly Police Activity.”

This week’s highlights:

(Insert Law & Order "doink doink" scene change sound effect here.)

Stolen Vehicle
Tuesday, 6:00pm. Victim lets suspect borrow vehicle temporarily. Suspect is late returning vehicle.
(doink doink)

Thefts
Friday 2:00pm. Victim leaves wallet at a friend’s (suspect) house and suspect takes victim’s credit card and attempts to make an unauthorized purchase but is denied.
(doink doink)

Suspicious Activity
Tuesday 9:00pm. Victim has front door open for ventilation and screen door is locked. Suspect knocks on screen door and inquires if “Stacy” is home. Victim says that there is no one named "Stacy" that lives there. Suspect leaves on foot.
(doink doink)

Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?

8 comments:

  1. We are poised to be a crime family I think... I have been leaving doors unlocked occasionally and also once I pet the neighbor's cat.

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  2. I'd be moving with that kind of crime.

    Don't you be forgetting about those hooligans that leave cookies on your porch.

    It's against the law to litter, too.

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  3. This is awesome. That's kinda what I did: moved from a high crime area about 6 miles away to a place with a police blotter with 3 entries, and they're all about arrests made on traffic stops from people passing through!

    I may have to write a comparative entry about my experience soon! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  4. Love it. A friend of mine used to write up the police blotter for a Chicago suburb paper. Usually stuff like "A ring, valued at $500, was stolen from a vehicle at the Tasty Twist on 170th and Reston Ave" but the best was "A pizza, valued at $11.95, was stolen from a Domino's delivery car at 5th and Thurston Street". Tough criminals! "Doink, doink".

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  5. feeling like you're losing your edge? You could start doing shots of metamucil or parking in handicap spots?

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  6. well, i never watch law and order so i didnt hear the doink doink but what i did hear was the whistlin' toon of the Andy Griffith show :)
    does that count?

    night aunt bea

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  7. oh yeah and it would be tune instead of toon.
    although the andy griffith show did have a toonish quality about it too

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  8. Sounds like our local paper ... Except there's usually 5 or 6 drunk drivers.

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