2007-08-08

Police Blotter

As just posted, I have been surfing the RCMP call reports as published in each issue of the local paper.

I present you with some of my favourites:

  • Police were called to report a man walking drunk along Commercial St. in New Minas.
  • At 3:04 a.m. police were called to report horses walking single file down the middle of the main road into Canning. Upon arrival, police ensured the horses were walking on the correct side of the street.
  • Someone spraypainted a van in Aylesford and then put brown sugar in the gas tank.
  • A wheelbarrow was stolen in Lockhartville.
  • A driver left a gas station on Aldershot Rd. in north Kentville without paying for his gas at 12:44 p.m. The man later returned to the gas station and paid for the $10 worth of fuel.
  • A theft of beer was reported at 12:04 a.m. last Wednesday when a man left Dooley’s in Berwick with an open beer in his pocket. When confronted, the man denied the bottle’s existence.
  • There were five domestic incidents, including a woman who slapped her ex-husband in the testicles. The man did not wish to press charges and refused medical attention.
  • A Berwick resident complained of wiper blades disappearing of his vehicle and was assured it was ravens.
  • An on-going problem with youth not wearing helmets at the skate park in New Minas was received.
  • A Sunnyside Road resident of Greenwich reported finding a bottle of urine in his mailbox.
  • An RCMP cruiser was spray painted in Berwick and various other cases of vandalism were noted.
  • A prom party in Harbourville attracted between 300 and 400 youth. The host called police about 11:30 p.m. fearing a fight. Officers attended, but refused to “babysit the event” and warned those attending they would be on the lookout for impaired drivers.At 8:32 a.m., police were called back to the party in Harbourville, where a young man was smashing himself on the head with beer bottles. He was arrested since he could not be calmed down.
  • At 12:51 a.m. June 16, a Coldbrook resident reported drunken neighbours stealing wood for a bonfire.
  • “Roy the koi” was reported stolen from the pond at the Country Store in Coldbrook.
  • A man who got the boot from a liquor establishment in Greenwood fell and hurt his head at 1:45 a.m.
  • A balding female driver was observed coming out of the Kingston liquor store at 2 p.m. and nearly hitting six vehicles.
  • At a dirt bike race in Auburn, a bike crashed, going through a fence and hitting several spectators. No one was injured. The driver apologized, got on the bike and continued the race.
  • Three chubby kids were supposedly stealing golf balls at Ken-Wo Golf Course in New Minas at 5:39 p.m.
  • A possible impaired driver in Port Williams turned out instead to be a poor driver after police stopped him at 2:30 a.m.
  • A Campbell Rd. resident of north Kentville reported a hazardous material was found on his doorknob. The material was a condom.
  • Two cows were reported missing in Grafton at 1 p.m.
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Small Town News

My sis was good enough to send me a link to an article from the local paper where we used to live Out East.

Yes.

A link to an article online.

So I spent an entire week reading nearly every article at novanewsnow.com. What a thrill! The article by the way was about some sewer engineering documents that had the decimal in the wrong place, which doubles the cost of the project in Kingston.

While living there, and whenever I visit, I make sure to pick up a couple of these locals for the entertainment if nothing else. (I was in the "goings on" section one year, announcing I was visiting)

Give it a surf. If the stories don't give you a chuckle, the writing technique certainly will! I'll give you a couple articles to start you off:

Vandalism turns over new leaf
West Kentville residence sullied by dumping of 65 bags of leaves

I was a young teenager in the Valley. I can vouch that there is nothing to do there. So, I can see myself as a 14 year old with my friends, collecting 65 bags of leaves from the neighbourhood and dumping them on some poor fool's yard. The highlight:

The man said he has no idea who would do such a thing, but he hopes the person or people responsible will come forward. He said at least seven homes had bags of leaves stolen from them and these homeowners have been affected and violated by the incident as well. “It affected the whole subdivision in a negative way."

Worst winter ever
'I'm 61 and I don't need this crap'

You'll just have to click on the link to truly appreciate this one.

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