Strange Lottery Winnings, Aye Aye Matey

Recent reports from the Oak Harbor police:

A caller reported a small child in the back seat of a white Saturn. The car had a cracked windshield and extremely bald tires.

A SE Eighth Avenue resident reported an air mattress blew into his front yard.

A NE Ernst Street resident reported he keeps receiving strange letters stating he has won the lottery.

A caller reported a woman standing in the doorway of a Highway 20 building yelling, “Aye aye matey.”

A caller reported people were selling perfume in a plot of land on Highway 20.

Burning Furniture, and The Large Red Cow

From the Island County Sheriff's Office:

A caller reported that neighbors on Byrd Drive were burning furniture in their yard.

A Rhododendron Drive resident reported that a large, red cow was in her yard.

Weapons of Eggs, Sugar, and Chocolate

From the Oak Harbor Police Department:

A caller reported her house in the 600 block of NW Third Avenue was vandalized by eggs, powdered sugar, and chocolate.

Finger licking good concoction!

Flapper with Puppies

From the weekly reports of the Coupeville Town Marshal's Office, according to the Whidbey News Times, comes this incident:

"At 8:10 p.m., a caller reported a woman, dressed in a flapper costume with high heels, was trying to get to some puppies in a ditch off Highway 20 near Sleeper Road."

Twirling Lights and a Stolen Gerbil

According to Coupeville's The Whidbey Examiner newspaper, these calls to the sheriff's department were recently logged:

7:40 a.m. Caller requests law enforcement assistance or contact at the SAFE building referring to a burglary that occurred sometime over the weekend. Gerbil, fish and clock missing.

8:46 p.m. Suspicious circumstance: Three lights twirling in the sky above Penn Cove. Caller states she saw the tail coming down.

White Sheeted Box Man and Mysterious Child's Dagger

From The Whidbey Examiner's Police Blotter this week:

"A white male in a white sheet and a cardboard box was reported running up and down the roadway on S Main."

"A caller reports finding a large plastic dagger in his front yard at NE Pennington. He doesn't know where it came from and requests that someone come to pick it up."

Police call for sock crisis

The Whidbey Examiner lists all incident reports from the Coupeville Marshal's Office each week, including this one:

"Thursday February 14 9:00pm: Caller wants officer to go to the Coupeville Recreation Hall to see if their son's red sock is there."