Editors Note: Police reports from ERPD will from time to time appear under this headline. These reports will be ones that are a little out of the ordinary from the the Police Briefs which East Ridge News Online has run since the inception of the Website. The stories appearing under the headline are not intended to embarrass, denigrate or discourage citizens from calling for help, only to illustrate the extreme and sometimes bizarre range of calls that East Ridge’s Finest are called in on to sort out. The headline reflects the question that dispatchers ask when a person calls for help from law enforcement authorities.
Early last Saturday morning, police were called to the Walgreen’s pharmacy on Ringgold Road in regard to a stolen vehicle. When the cops got there they spoke to a guy who said that he had parked his Honda Accord in the lot while he hitched a ride with a buddy to one of the final nights of Riverbend.
According to a police report, the owner of the Honda last saw the car at midnight. On Saturday morning when he came to get the car it was gone. The report states that an officer duly recorded all the pertinent information to report the car as stolen and to post the information to a crime data base.
About 15 minutes later, the report states, the officer was called to the Wal-Mart parking lot. The same man who reported his Honda as stolen had found his car down the street in the Wal-Mart parking lot. The man – who according to the report apologized profusely – said that he had forgot that he moved his vehicle to the Wal-Mart because they were open 24 hours a day.
Tanager Circle: Police were dispatched to the call recently in response to a disorder. According to a police report, dispatchers told an officer that a woman said only that there were “problems” and she needed help. Dispatch also advised that there was a baby screaming in the background during the 911 call. The caller told dispatchers that someone was also “choking.”
When the cops got there the sister of the caller told officers that there really was no problem and that the woman who called for help was simply having an anxiety attack. Officers spoke with all the people at the address and everyone was OK and nobody was choking.
The woman who called for help explained that she had called police because “her son had lost his shoe and would not stop crying.” The report states that “police advised her to not call 911 unless it is an emergency.”
The report states that the woman who called police because her baby had lost its shoe is a “mental health consumer.” Police spoke with the caller’s mother who said she would be taking her daughter to Parkridge East to get checked out.
Prigmore Road: Police were called to the house of a woman Sunday on a reported theft. When an officer arrived they spoke with a woman who told police that half of her weedeater was stolen and replaced with a broken half weedeater.
According to a police report, the woman told cops that a man had cut her yard in the past along with another neighbor’s yard. The man brings his yard equipment to his clients’ homes via bicycle. The victim said that the man pulls his lawnmower behind his bike. The victim’s theory is that she believes the bicycle yard man replaced half of her weedeater with the half that doesn’t work. She said she wanted to file a report “just in case she can get ahold of the suspect and get her half back.”
