Police Blotter Highlights

Glasgow Poet John Nolan's Police Log from the Rochester Times of New Hampshire

12:20 p.m. — A man takes two types of medication and drives away from Willowbrook Apartments with the parting assertion that he would be dead before he was found. Police can neither find him nor the concerned caller.

2:09 a.m. — A man walking in Walgreen's parking lot was almost hit by a car, whose driver then got out and kicked him in the face.

2:56 a.m. — Someone reports banging and screaming in a neighboring apartment on Academy Street and holds the phone to the wall to let dispatch hear. Dispatch confirms, yup, that's banging and screaming all right.

3:07 p.m. — At Cumberland Farms on Knight Street, a young man waxes angry when they will not break his $50 bill. He breaks the door latch.

6:56 a.m. — A "half-dead" skunk on Olde Farm Lane, is trapped and keeps on spraying, Fish and Game tell police they'll come, you bet the cops are praying.

10:12 p.m. — A home on Juniper has been egged. An investigating officer concludes that a single egg was involved. Brown or white is not revealed.