Just before 2300 last night, Mr Moo and I heard a police siren nearby. We could see the flashing lights just up the road a bit. We both immediately thought it was strange that an officer would leave his siren going in a residential neighborhood that late at night if it was just a traffic stop and assumed something more serious was going on. We kept watch for a few more minutes and, sure enough, two more police cars showed up and started roaming up and down the streets. At one point, we saw them all go zooming off in the same direction at high speed. Whoever they were looking for must have been sighted. We didn't see anything else after that and went to bed.

Today, I checked all the local news websites to see if I could find out what happened and there was nothing. Just for kicks, I called the police department's general switchboard. I figured if there was some psychotic murderer roaming our neighborhood, I just might want to know about it. I asked the very pleasant woman who answered if police reports were public information and if I could find out what happened last night. She answered with a most definitive "Possibly. It depends." and a chuckle. I gave her all the information I had and she looked up the report.

She was able to tell me quite a bit. In a nutshell, it was a suspicious person complaint. A guy went to a nearby house and asked for someone who did not live there. After he was told such and left, he went back to the house repeatedly, asking for a different person every time. When the police showed up and tried to question him, he took off and they went after him. I asked if they caught him and she didn't know. She said the report she was reading didn't say one way or the other.

So, there still is a possibility of a lunatic roaming about my neighborhood after all. What a way to start the week.