Premature Discharge/Carkeek Park/Thurs March 21/5:00 pm: An unnamed officer responded to a trespass incident on some railroad tracks in Carkeek Park. The unnamed officer located the trespassers and became concerned because one of them was walking toward him with his hands in his pockets. The unnamed officer ordered the approaching trespasser to remove his hands from his pockets. The trespasser did not obey. The unnamed officer withdrew his pistol, indexed his finger, and held the weapon at a low but ready position. The trespassers instinctively ran for their lives. To get a better look at the frantic situation, the unnamed officer stepped back. His foot, however, did not settle on the ground but on a "creosote railroad tie." The unnamed officer slipped, and discharged his weapon as he fell. "[He] put his hands down to attempt to break the fall," writes the reporting officer, "and had a sympathetic response on the trigger, and discharged the handgun. One round struck the soft sand just off the railroad tracks." The blunder spared the lives of the fleeing trespassers.

Fire Fashion/Capitol Hill/Sun March 24/12:17 pm: This afternoon, Officer Stevenson was flagged down by a member of the Seattle Fire Department, who pointed out a young man wearing a pair of SFD pants. She then explained that SFD clothes were not available to the public, and could only be obtained by theft. She also said SFD pants had identification numbers on them, and so could be traced to a specific firefighter. Officer Stevenson approached the young man and asked how he had acquired the pants. "My friend found them in a Dumpster and gave them to me," answered the hipster. Officer Stevenson arrested the hipster and took to him the East Precinct. At the precinct, the hipster was interrogated. "The pants were given to me a year ago," he finally confessed, and then he gave up his friend's name. "He gave me the pants, but I didn't know they were stolen." After surrendering the truth, the hipster was released from the precinct sans fireman pants.

God's Guitar/Ballard/Sun March 24/1:04 pm: When Officer Gonzalez arrived at Ballard Free Methodist Church, he made contact with the church choir's guitar player, who told him this sad Sunday story: After the morning service concluded, he placed his guitar into his "gig bag" and left it in the choir room. He went to the sanctuary for approximately 15 minutes, and upon returning found nothing in the very spot where he left his guitar. The only way to access the choir room is from inside the church, and so the person who deprived him of his property is a member of the congregation.