Volume One:
• A man and a woman were reported together in the ladies’ shower at the RV park. Police advised them to shower separately in the future.
• Police were called to a hotel bar where an individual was arguing with guests about how he “knew more about Alaska than anyone else.” Subject calmed down and left the bar after police arrived.
• A tour driver reported that someone had stolen a magnetic sign from the sightseeing company van. It was later reported seen on the city garbage truck.
• A person was reported lying near a telephone pole on Second near Main Street and not moving. Upon arrival, police found a man on the ground with a bicycle beween his legs. He was given a ride home.
• Police cited a man for disorderly conduct after a golf ball was hit into the Red Onion Saloon.
• A man was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated after he was stopped for driving erratically and making a left turn signal with a beer in his hand.
• A woman called from “Room 109” and wanted some ice. She also said there was a big fly in her window and she wanted something done about it. She was informed that she had dialed the police department and that she should get help from the front desk.
Volume Two:
• After a dog, possibly scared by fireworks, jumped aboard her bus at the Ore Dock, a SMART bus driver delivered it to the police department. Officers were able to reunite the roaming dog with owner. The bus driver did not charge the dog a fare.
• Police contacted two very penitent individuals after catching them picking rhubarb stalks late at night from the scenic garden at Sixth and Broadway.
• Police received many noise complaints about late night fireworks, but were unable to catch anybody firing them off. The next day officers located and cited a 16-year old female who had bragged on her Facebook account how she was reponsible for waking the entire town.
• Police contacted individuals who had been flying a remote control drone helicopter past the security barriers and near the cruise ships.
From Heard on the Wind:
• A tour opersator was asked, “How old does a deer have to be before you call it a moose?”
• A guard at the border station reported that, on a particularly foggy morning, an old lady pulled up in a white Cadillac and asked “Why’d you all build that damn road in the fog?”
• After a Skaguay Alaskan newsie pointed out harbor seals in the water by the Broadway Dock, a visitor asked, “When will they be back? We have to go on our tour now.”
• “The northern lights are reflections of the glaciers, right?”
• A visitor was overheard asking where one might find pictures of Sarah Palin in a bathing suit.
• Another tour driver who took a group up the White Pass into Canada was asked if they were going to Russia, or if they could “see Russia from the top of the pass.”
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