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Scanner Traffic — 3/26/09

  • 5:22 p.m. R/P reports a dog in a red SUV in front of a local day care hasn't been given food or water since 2 p.m.
  • 4:56 p.m. Hazmat unit is checking out an oil slick behind Cricket's/Coeur d'Alene.
  • 4:50 p.m. Vehicles are racing in and out of Black Bay/Post Falls.
  • 4:48 p.m. An 85YO man has fallen and hit his head in the handicap parking area directly in front of Costco.
  • 4:40 p.m. CPD Blue officers have 4 men in custody in the Kohl's parking lot. Details are sketchy re: reason why.
  • 2:33 p.m. 2 citizens are fighting over a parking spot @ 1201 Lincoln Way.
  • 1:12 p.m. A golfer has suffered a possible broken leg when his cart slipped on the edge of a path @ Gozzer Ranch and overturned on him.
  • 12:05 p.m. A woman who is having trouble dialing "6's" on her phone accidentally called 911.
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  • 11:34 a.m. An abandoned gray Intrepid parked behind the Hauser Smoke Shop is preventing store deliveries.
  • 11:23 a.m. A thirtysomething man smelling of alcohol is unconscious and unresponsive at the Budget Saver motel @ 15th & Sherman.
  • 10:24 a.m. Two boys at a CdA grade school are kicking a ball against an R/P's fence, causing her dogs to bark.
  • 9:50 a.m. Woman reports that there's a dog in her car @ Meyer & Hayden, and as a result, she's unable to enter the vehicle.
  • 9:35 a.m. A man is unconscious and not breathing in a yard in the 1200 block of 9th. He was last seen alive an hour ago.
  • 9:18 a.m. Lakeland School District driver reports a motorist who passed bus when stop lights were on.
  • 9:17 a.m. A fisherman is adamant that someone pick up a dead cocker spaniel at an eagle turnout on Lake Coeur d'Alene.
  • 9:16 a.m. A mother wants to see an officer re: her 8YO son who was suspended from school for being a bully.


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    D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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