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Arcata Police Log: Schrödinger’s Cat Makes Appearance In Driveway, And Doesn’t

By kevpod

5:51 p.m. An officer was hailed at the Community Center by a woman who had been approached by a man who said he needed help with a “groin injury.” But before the officer could address the crotch crisis, the woman left, as did the groin whisperer. »

Arcata Police Log: They Say This Town Is Full Of, Like, Cozenage Or Whatever

By kevpod

11:40 a.m. The problem wasn’t with the yaks, but with their grouchy tenders, who form a kind of yak-centered mobile argument service. Cordial greetings and friendly remarks about their exotic animals are met with blistering ripostes, and heaven help anyone who asks anything of the two irascible yaksmen, like to move out of the... »

Arcata Police Log: Obstreperous Oaves Briefly Engage Grog-Sodden Prefrontal Cortexes, But Only To Throw A Bottle At That Lady

By kevpod

• Thursday, March 28 10:42 a.m. Yak Man and his diminutive companion argued at a passing jogger before being admonished. One must greet the yakherders with extreme courtesy and caution as they go about purifying Arcata. »

Arcata Police Log: Weirdo Scours Nowhere For Thereness

By kevpod

9:19 p.m. A man stood outisde a Samoa Boulevard business with his pants down, opening and closing his car door. He told police he was waiting for a ride. »

Arcata Police Log: Practitioners Of The Howling Arts Blurt And Bluster Across The Landscape

By kevpod

3:57 p.m. A man out back of a Valley West shopping center may have been drunk and aggressive toward customers, but at least he peed on the dumpster. »

Arcata Police Log: Dough Boy And Zig Zag Drive A Dude Mental

By kevpod

11:45 p.m. A bearded ’n’ beanied man fled a Uniontown variety store with the succulent innards of a wine box – the plastic bladder of vino. Caught, arrested, banished and jailed. »

Arcata Police Log: Expediency And Self-Centeredness Guide Majority Of Human Activity

By kevpod

• Thursday, January 23 11:17 a.m. A Chihuahua skittered about 11th and M streets, and that lady couldn’t catch it. »

How Does “Use My Car Around Town” Come Through As “Sell My Car In San Diego?”

By kevpod

9:10 a.m. A long-haired man in a jean jacket and rubber boots was seen releasing domestic ducks into Klopp Lake, a violation. Another citizen on scene said the man had let the ducks out to get water – apparently some sort of necessity for ducks – then “boxed them up” and left. »

Arcata Police Log: Wronged, They Yearned To Confront Their Antagonists, But It Was Not To Be

By kevpod

11:45 a.m. Every day, a man shows up to “guard the front door” of a suspected Ariel Way grow house. »

911 Mistaken For Rapid-Response Cigarette-Lighting Service

By kevpod

4:42 p.m. Three snoopgaloots – those being slithy toves who forego cover of darkness and do their hunting for fungible items in cars during daytime – were reported rooting around in a Valley West motel parking lot. The caller opinied that the three were “no strangers to speed.” They wandered off before police arrived. »