Category: Police Blotter Stories
100 Word stories based on items from the police blotter of my hometown of Burlingame, CA. Soon to be a book. Maybe.
Wednesday Words – 100 Word Police Blotter Story – Bored
Here’s a great item from the police blotter that’s very fitting for St. Patrick’s Day!
Bored
By Grant Patrick Baciocco
Guarding a pot of gold is not as glamorous as it sounds. There are long stretches of boredom between rainbows and during the summer, day after day of straight sun can get boring.
Dermot Kiley was 545 years old and he’d had enough. Enough of sitting around in the summers. Enough of being bored. And when Dermot got bored he got mean.
One hot summer afternoon, he made up his mind. He was going to put a beating on the very first human he saw. It was against the Leprechaun code, sure, but he was gonna be bored no more!
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Wednesday Words – 100 Word Police Blotter Story – Nuts!
Some great police blotter stuff came in this week. Here’s today’s!
Nuts!
By Grant Baciocco
Carla had just finished putting away the two acorns she’d carried with her when she heard Larry come through the hole. He stood there sheepishly, his tail twitching.
She eyed him for a second and then realized why he was standing there looking like an idiot. “Where is the nut?”
Silence.
“Larry. Where is the nut?” she said, yelling now.
He didn’t look up, “I dropped it.”
“You what!?”
“I dropped it as we came across the wire. It landed down on the driveway. I was gonna go back for it, but the lady came out and picked it up.”
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Link is below, but if you don’t want to be spoiled, don’t click through to the police blotter because there’s a few that will be future stories.
100 Word Wednesdays – Lost & Found (plus bonus story)
Another work of 100 word fiction inspired by an actual event from the Police Blotter in my hometown of Burlingame, CA. Enjoy!
Lost & Found
By Grant Baciocco
Roger had found it while he was pulling up the floor in the upstairs bathroom. After the initial shock, came the thought of what exactly he was going to do with it. He had poked it with a the end of the crowbar and it had done nothing. He’d tried throwing water on it but all that seemed to do was get it wet.
He next went to the shed and came back with a shovel. After several minutes of straining, he’d wrested it from between the floor joists.
The question remained…What was he going to do with it?
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February 10, 2013 − 12:43 p.m.: A citizen who found something turned it in to police.
BONUS
Here’s a bonus story. This one is one I stumbled across while searching for Burlingame Police blotter stories. This one is from the Bay Area city of Foster City. Not too far from Burlingame.
Off to School
By Grant Baciocco
Officer Roberts removed his apron, being careful not to snag the apron strings on his revolver or nightstick. He gathered up the sandwich, apple slices and baby carrots that he’d just placed into sandwich bags and put them into the paper sack on the counter. He rolled up the top of that bag and, taking a pen from his pocket, wrote Alison’s name on the front.
Just then, Officer Morgan entered the kitchen with Alison in tow. Alison, groggy, sat down at the table as Officer Roberts served her scrambled eggs.
“Thanks.” Alison muttered.
“Eat up or you’ll be late.”
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100 Word Wednesdays – Framed
Another story based on an item in the police blotter from my hometown of Burlingame, CA.
Framed
By Grant Baciocco
It’d taken him months to get just right. Lots of trial and error. Lots of decisions. Which rhinestones looked good with the wood varnish he’d chosen? The red ribbons or the green? Would the moulding obscure any information the DMV required to be seen?
When Richard thought of all the hours spent using the lathe, the hot glue gun, the wood burning iron his blood boiled. And he couldn’t bring himself to think about the Swavorski Crystals. It was all gone. It had been too special to put on his car but, dammit, he just had to show the world.
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5:25 a.m.: A resident in the 1800 block of Casteneda reported his license plate frame was stolen.