Don’t stop to smell the roses | Island Scanner

The following were selected from reports made to the Oak Harbor Police Department:

Wednesday, May 31

At 5:50 p.m., a caller reported that a man on the corner of Midway Boulevard and Eighth Avenue was yelling and taking off his clothes.

Thursday, June 1

At 8:04 a.m., a caller reported that “a transient guy” was staring at him on Hathaway Street.

At 9:03 p.m., a caller reported that his daughter and a friend were fighting and one of them pulled a gun on Northeast 10th Avenue.

Friday, June 2

At 8:36 a.m., a woman on Oak Harbor Street reported a prowler in her house. It turned out to be her husband.

At 5:41 p.m., a caller on North Oak Harbor Street reported that a neighbor refused to clean up vomit.

At 7:06 p.m., a caller reported that a man pulled a gun and hit a woman at the Dairy Queen.

Saturday, June 3

At 12:33 a.m., a caller reported that a transient man was vomiting and stumbling around outside a Highway 20 store.

At 2:37 p.m., a caller reported that a shirtless man smelled a rose in the caller’s back yard on Barrington Drive.

Monday, June 5

At 2:10 p.m., a caller reported that a dead bald eagle was hanging from a power pole on Beeksma Drive.

Tuesday, June 6

At 6:12 p.m., a caller reported that a subject was carrying a long butcher knife at Windjammer Park.

At 8:32 p.m., there was a report of a man getting naked outside of Safeway.

Saturday, June 10

At 8:35 p.m., people on Bayshore Drive asked for bolt cutters to open the lock on a friend’s luggage.

Sunday, June 11

At 7:24 a.m., a police officer said that a man was urinating on the highway.

At 5:46 p.m., a Sunnyside Avenue resident reported that a man on an ATV was casing the neighborhood.

At 8:50 p.m., a resident reported a fraudulent Craigslist ad for a house supposedly for rent on 16th Avenue.

Monday, June 12

At 1:42 p.m., a couch was reportedly dumped on Scenic Heights Street.