“It’s just frustration,” “it’s just flashlight tag,” and “it’s just an icemaker on its last legs” are perfect explanations for nearly anything that can happen in this life.įull disclosure: I went to high school in Lake Oswego, and have been reading the blotter since the late ‘90s. What was at first thought to be a snack bar burglar at Old Waluga Park turned out to be the sound of an ice maker on its last legs. Twenty teens seen running up and down the 2900 block of Winkel Way were just playing flashlight tag.Ħ/6/13 7:36 a.m. A neighbor seen hitting his or her head against a porch was just frustrated.Ĥ/12 9:26 p.m.

While others start with a troubling premise and end with a simple explanation:Ĥ/12 4:45 p.m. (Follow-ups: What kind of hanger? From the dry cleaners? The nice wooden kind that costs $4.99? What was it about this particular hanger that caused enough suspicion that it seemed a call to the police was in order?) A hanger found in a driveway in the 1500 block of Sixth Street caused suspicion. Some of them are tantalizingly short, and raise so many more questions than answers:ģ/22 7:58 p.m. Upon further investigation, she discovered that the footprint was her own. A woman who lives on Oak Street became suspicious when she discovered a wet footprint on her front porch. No one knows quite when, but at some point, the blotters themselves became a piece of art, a high, fine comedy, bits of which appear on the dedicated Twitter, 5:36 a.m. Into this fray step the small-town policemen, who respond in person to nearly every call they receive.Īll of these spats are lovingly chronicled by the police blotters of the Lake Oswego Review and West Linn Tidings, each of which print the majority of calls to police. Decaying beavers who mar the beauty of city parks.

On the other side is a whole host of (possible) evildoers. On one side: concerned, alert residents who wish to keep their idyllic Oregon communities safe. A caller was frightened by a “round, bright, white light shining through the trees.” It was the moon.Įach week, in the wealthy adjacent Portland suburbs of Lake Oswego and West Linn, battles rage.

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