From the Unalaska Police Blotter:
Drunk Disturbance – Drunken boarding house tenant reported another tenant had grabbed his leg, forcing the drunk to phone 911 for assistance. The drunk did not wish to pursue charges.
Domestic Disturbance – Drunken boarding house tenant reported that his equally drunken nemesis had taken his cell phone, and he wanted it back. Officers told both sots they would go to jail if they continued behaving toward one another in such a fashion.
Assault – Yet another boarding house tenant reported being threatened by one of the drunken louts to whom officers had already spent considerable time speaking. The lout told officers he would never say such a thing.
Domestic Disturbance, Redux - Mother asked officer to advise her drunken sons they were not welcome in her home. Twenty minutes, later, mother asked officer to advise her drunken sons, who had returned with another inebriated friend, that they were still not welcome in her home.
Yet Another Domestic Disturbance - Drunken man complained that a drunken woman refused to leave his home. An officer responded and told the drunken woman to leave. She did.
I get a kick out of the dispatcher's way with words. I was a police/fire/ambulance dispatcher for a couple of years, some 30 years ago; it was exciting, fun, and occasionally very stressful. Writing these events the way this dispatcher does would definitely help take some of the edge off, and keep it light-hearted.
2 comments:
And it's only January!? What will it be like as te depths of winter continue?
Actually, Unalaska's blotter has stories like these every week. I just ran out of anything else to write about. :)
I don't say it often enough, but thanks for checking in on me.
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