What you really have to look out for in Sitka

Two days worth of police blotter, with everything but bears, weapons, and liquor taken out. Sometimes I yearn for brick-wielding bike gangs.

Aug. 7
At 1:36 p.m. a bear sow and four cubs were reported in the 2900 block of Halibut Point Road.
At 4:54 p.m. a bear sow and four cubs were reported in the 100 block of Harbor Mountain Road, wandering toward the woods.
At 5:15 p.m. a Juneau mental health facility called emergency personnel to report a man was on the beach near the library threatening to harm himself. Officers found he had a knife. He was taken to the hospital.
At 5:50 p.m. a sow and two cubs were reported passing through the 3000 block of Mikele Street.
At 6:13 p.m. an intoxicated man was reported passed out on a trail in the 200 block of Moller Street. Officers found he was able to care for himself.
At 6:52 p.m. an intoxicated man was reported looking into yards and behaving suspiciously in the 600 block of Monastery Street. Officers found he was able to care for himself.
At 7:07 p.m. a bear sow and two cubs were reported in the 100 block of Harbor Mountain Road.
At 8:07 p.m. a bear sow and four cubs were reported getting into trash in the 3700 block of HPR. Officers used an air horn to chase the bears into the woods.
At 10:28 p.m. a bear was reported getting into trash cans in the 1900 block of Cascade Creek Road.
At 10:39 p.m. the sound of a gunshot or a seal bomb going off was reported heard in the 2700 block of HPR.
At 10:39 p.m. 12 shots were reported heard in the 800 block of Sawmill Creek Road. Officers checked the area but found nothing.
At 11:43 p.m. two bears were seen in the 100 block of Edgecumbe Drive. Police scared them off.
Aug. 8
At 7:24 a.m. a bear sow and two cubs were reported in the 1300 block of Georgeson Loop.
At 1:17 a.m. a sow and two cubs were seen in the 300 block of Tilson.
At 2:06 a.m. a bear was reported in the 700 block of Pherson Street. Offices found garbage cans tipped over but no bear.
At 3:35 a.m. a driver reported an intoxicated man sleeping in the roadway in the 2800 block of HPR. The driver had awakened the man and had him get out of the road.
At 6:35 a.m. a bear sow and four cubs were reported at Halibut Point Recreation Area.
At 9:56 a.m. police intervened in a dispute between a mother and grandmother over children.
At 2;57 p.m. a bear was reported on Flume Circle, near the waterfall.
At 6:25 p.m. a small bear cub was reported to have passed through a yard in the 100 block of Jeff Davis Street.
At 7:21 p.m. a sow with four cubs was reported to have gone through a yard in the 4200 block of HPR.
At 11:45 p.m. a caller said someone walked by a Lincoln Street bar and threw a rock through a window, breaking it.