Arcata Police Log: The kind of problem-solving that creates more problems


 

• Wednesday, June 15 5:48 a.m. After harvesting two bicycles from a Sixth Street alley, a young entrepreneur marched the bikes out to the Marsh for chopping – disassembly and resale.

2:49 p.m. When a lumbering motorhome maneuvering at Fifth and H streets knocked down a street sign, its operator solved the problem and set the tone for his relationship with his new neighborhood by tossing the sign into a nearby resident’s backyard.

5:04 p.m. An “older” woman with gray hair, wearing a pinkish-red jacket, shorts and blue socks walked up to a man’s car at 11th and G streets and poured mystery liquid all over it.

5:25 p.m. A woman in a black puffy vest, a Christmas print pajama top, tan skirt, floral print purse and pushing a teal-colored shopping cart walked up to a woman’s vehicle containing her dog in a Westwood Center parking lot and pepper-sprayed the car’s interior.

• Thursday, June 16 10:06 a.m. When a man in all black rode a noisy twostroke off-road motorcycle through Arcata High School’ hallways, the sputtering exhaust sounded enough like gunfire that the school went into a brief lockdown.

11:10 a.m. Access to the northwest corner of the Plaza was blocked for a Parks Dept. lawnmower by a man reposing in a hammock, as one does. He was moved along.

5:40 p.m. In a possibly unprecedented toiletarian heist, a woman’s belt bag was somehow stolen while she used the Porta-loo. The fanny-pack snatcher was a blonde woman wearing a baseball cap and blue jacket.

6:43 p.m. After a woman left her purse at a Westwood laundromat, her bank called about fraudulent use of her cards, which were then canceled.

• Friday, June 17 6:56 p.m. A naked woman at Eighth and H streets became slightly less so when she put on a pair of boots.

• Saturday, June 18 5:24 p.m. Tools left overnight in a pickup truck and Sixth and I streets of course didn’t survive till morn. The victim noted that a cannabis shop’s security cam was pointed in the truck’s direction, and he hoped it caught the night’s ripoffery.

7:33 p.m. A motorist compensated for feelings of inadequacy with a bold flourish of sound, fury and juvenile values in his mighty silver Volkswagen, gunning the engine to peel out in the Klopp Lake parking lot.

11:13 p.m. An Aldergrove Road passerby observed that the driver’s side window of a taco truck had been left slightly open, and closed it. He noted, however, the possibility that it could still be unlocked.

• Sunday, June 19 12:42 a.m. A K Street resident reported someone taking a piano from his home. He said he had text messages from the piano-jacker admitting to the keyboard-napping as a way of settling a debt.