By S/Sgt. Marko Shehovac

Early morning drunk at clubhouse

Columbia Valley RCMP Detachment officers responded to an intoxicated male at the Eagle Ranch clubhouse at 6:05 a.m. on Oct. 30. A 49-year-old male from Kelowna was dropped off at the location by friends. The male was able to direct the officers to his parents’ residence and was driven home.

Unattended bon fire extinguished

At 10:57 p.m. on Oct. 31, the detachment received a complaint from the Windermere Fire Department of a large bon fire in the 1600 block of Sinclair Avenue in Windermere. Police later attended and found the fire unattended. Whitehouse Hotel staff were alerted and they extinguished the fire.

Free lodging for lost drinker

Columbia Valley Detachment officers responded to a complaint of an intoxicated female banging on a door in the 4800 block of Sable Rd, Fairmont Hot Springs at 1:15 a.m Nov. 1. A 20-year-old female was located but unable to advise the police where she was staying. The female was provided lodging until she was sober. No charge.

Eggs chucked in the Flats

At 8 a.m. on Nov. 1, the detachment received complaints of eggs being thrown at a residence in the 4000 block of Spruce Ave in Canal Flats.

Wilmer disturbance

At 10:17 p.m. on Nov. 1, Columbia Valley Detachment received a complaint of disturbance on Wallis Avenue in Wilmer. The complaint was of a group of people yelling and screaming. Police attended and were not able to observe any disturbance. Group of people were spoken to who shortly left the area.

Drunk in public among charges

Officers responded to a complaint of an intoxicated male banging on a door causing a disturbance at 11:16 p.m. Nov. 1. It was determined that the 26-year-old male was at a party and became violent and started fighting with people. Police located the male, well known to police, on the street. The male attempted to flee but was arrested. Officers being familiar with the male were aware that he was on probation and part of his conditions was to keep the peace and not consume alcohol. The male was charged with breach of probation and lodged in cells for drunk in public.

Shots fired were from trap shooting event

Detachment received a complaint of shots fired in the area of the Old Coach Trail at 1:27 p.m. on Nov. 2. It was determined that a trap-shooting event was in progress and there were no safety concerns.

Idle hands

With idle hands, down time, not busy, nothing better to do, one can find a little bit of mischief to fill in the time.

The maturity level drops a little. One would not expect to find childish behavior with our police. If you only knew!

While working in the Lower Mainland many years ago at a small community called Haney, now Ridge Meadows, we found ways to deal with idle hands. While some officers were in the restaurant we would remove all hubcaps from the police vehicle and put them back on very lightly. The result is when the officer got in and backed up, all hubcaps would go clanging and rolling on the ground. The people in the restaurant would hear the clanging of hubcaps and gaze out and have a laugh at the officer’s expense.

One officer was a gentleman farmer and in the evening we would put one of his chickens in a police car. This was done to simply experiment how quickly an officer can exit his vehicle: 2.5 seconds. In pitch darkness, have you ever checked your rear view mirror and wondered how you would react to red beady eyes staring back at you? Inquiring minds want to know.

Placing a dog in the back seat would be in order; 1.6 seconds for that one and that’s with gun drawn. Family pet, so we saved the dog.

Of course there’s the old ‘move the police car around the block and watch the search pattern.’

These are stories I heard. I would never participate in such childish behavior.

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