Police log: Chicken squawks mistaken for dog barks
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The dog’s owners are elderly, the caller said, and they take out their hearing aids so they don’t realize what a racket their dog makes.
The noise turned out to be from chickens.
The Tracy Police Department received 156 calls for service Monday. The following is a sample of those calls.
5:10 a.m.: A man and woman tried to get into a caller’s car on the 200 block of Central Avenue and then fled in a dark grey sedan. Police arrested a 21-year-old woman and booked her into the San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp.
5:27 a.m.: Two cars collided just south of the railroad tracks at Corral Hollow and Linne roads.
9:06 a.m.: Police arrested a 32-year-old woman after a traffic stop at Grant Line Road and Holly Drive.
9:53 a.m.: Someone from North School, 2875 Holly Drive, reported that the father of a student took the child into the bathroom and beat him with a belt.
9:54 a.m.: A caller reported that a house on the 1100 block of Alum Rock Court was heavily tagged with graffiti.
10:35 a.m.: Someone reported graffiti at California Engineering Contractor, 200 W. Valpico Way.
10:35 a.m.: A caller reported a suspected gang fight at Kelly Elementary School, 535 Mabel Josephine Drive.
11 a.m.: A caller reported that a guy going around Mello Court and Enyeart Road asking for donations for disabled veterans may be a fraudster.
12:12 p.m.: Police arrested a 34-year-old man after a caller reported seeing a guy get into the driver’s side of a car and pull out a silver handgun on the 1500 block of Swarthout Court.
1:40 p.m.: Callers reported seeing a group of kids running toward Zanussi Park, 1500 Promenade Circle, yelling, “fight, fight!”
1:46 p.m.: A caller said someone in a white pickup drove over the curb and median to bypass a crossing guard at Hirsch Elementary School, 1280 Dove Drive. Police talked to the truck driver about his driving, and he said he didn’t think he did anything wrong. He just “honked his horn three times because the crosswalk person wasn’t not doing their job correctly.”
2:32 p.m.: Police arrested a woman on suspicion of trespassing after an employee at Motel 6, 3810 N. Tracy Blvd., said she refused to leave her room after checkout time and wouldn’t answer her phone.
3:07 p.m.: A caller reported that someone stole a catalytic converter out of a car at 22nd and Deborah streets.
4:32 p.m.: A caller reported that several teenagers were lighting fireworks at Veterans Park, 238 Glenhaven Drive.
4:49 p.m.: A caller reported that someone spray-painted the garage door of an empty home on the 100 block of Alum Court Drive.
5:03 p.m.: A caller reported finding a handgun in the weeds next to a house on the 300 block of West 12th Street.
5:54 p.m.: A clerk at a Valero gas station, 2400 W. Grant Line Road, said someone ran inside, stole some beer and left in a chocolate-colored car.
6:15 p.m.: A caller said some kids appeared to be trying to light a bench on fire near Schulte Road and Tracy Boulevard.
6:43 p.m.: A man said his 12-year-old daughter and her friends were smoking marijuana inside his house on the 1400 block of Jones Lane when he came home. He said there were two high school-aged boys with his daughter, though she claimed she didn’t give them permission to come inside the house.
7:02 p.m.: Police cited and released a 22-year-old man on a blue Kawasaki motorcycle at 7-Eleven, 2360 W. Grant Line Road, after a routine traffic stop.
7:55 p.m.: A caller reported that someone stole plants from outside his house on the 1200 block of Lincoln Boulevard.
8:24 p.m.: Someone reported seeing a man set down an empty alcohol container outside his car before driving off from Raley’s, 2550 S. Tracy Blvd.
9:36 p.m.: A caller complained about two guys rifling through recyclables at Shadowood Lane and Teakwood Way.
This column includes a sample of items as reported in the Tracy Police Department dispatcher’s daily log. Additional information is based on reports from officers and other law enforcement agencies. To anonymously report information about a crime: Crime Stoppers, 831-6847.
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I've seen the worst drivers on Sycamore. What I love are the 20-somethings who speed past kids getting out of school and throw a half-drank coke or some fast food garbage at the kids. I've gotten a few license plate numbers and reported them. Oh yeah , and stopping behind the guy who stopped at a stop sign, doesn't mean YOU can go.
"The noise turned out to be from chickens."
Pretty good trick!
Teaching your chickens to bark like dogs at 1:06 in the morning.
You might say this new home security device could give the owner's a leg up in the poultry gene pool?
= Isn't the dad getting himself in trouble?
The dog’s owners are elderly, the caller said, and they take out their hearing aids so they don’t realize what a racket their dog makes.
The noise turned out to be from chickens.
= Chickens not dogs? Maybe the caller should borrow the hearing aids?
Drivers consistently speed on Sycamore Parkway while children are present. This driver is just another example of the self-absorbed boobs that live here.