3:25 p.m. A man bearing a pellet rifle as he pedaled around downtown on a bicycle was stopped at Ninth and H streets and advised on how to transport a firearm without wigging everyone out.
Wednesday, May 12 5:09 p.m. It was a week to a week-and-a-half ago - he couldn't really remember, exactly - that a car passed a man riding his bike in the 700 block of Union Street. And from that car sprang a projectile - a piece of banana, which struck the bicyclist on the arm. He chased the car down Seventh Street to a Uniontown parking lot, where he found it and wrote down the license plate. Now, a week or week-and-a-half later, approximately, the banana-battered biker found the same car parked near Sunny Brae Park. He said he spoke to the sole occupant, who admitted that one of his passengers had fruit-fragged him, and he asked police to call the car's registered owner and relate the situation to him. They tried, but got an answering machine. Will justice never be served?
Thursday, May 13 12:35 p.m. A report of people smoking dope on the Plaza turned into a dogshit-prevention citation, then morphed back into a pot bust.
Friday, May 14 1:30 a.m. Two men voiced objections to Arcata's demographic makeup in front of a Valley West store. After commenting that there are "too many hippies in town," one of the men did the only logical thing - uprooted decorative foliage from a planter and threw it at a window, then got in his car and drove away. The window didn't break, the plant was replanted and the hippies still frolic, gambol and reproduce.
2:13 p.m. A big fat guy with no shirt on fell off his bicycle in the 700 block of 10th Street, then yelled at a lady.
3:54 p.m. The wind blew real hard.
5:23 p.m. A beer was removed from the grasp of a man "who praises the son" outside a Plaza tavern.
6:06 p.m. A Heather Lane mother asked that police talk some sense into her son, who refuses to extinguish the candles in his bedroom. They did, then he did.
6:30 a.m. Windows at Northtown businesses were found etched with acid.
ok, enough for now. i love these things.
yo, seriously like every other one of these has to do with someone acting like Matthew McConaughey