Best of Stowe's 2015 police blotter

• Jan. 2 at 3:33 p.m., a Wisconsin police department called, looking for information on a man suspected of mail fraud, but the man’s mailing habits were legitimate.

• Jan. 24 at 9:08 a.m., a tenant living above the Notchbrook General Store complained about the bright headlights on the early morning shuttle bus, and could it please not turn around where he lives?

• Feb. 1 at 1:13 p.m., a man told police that his car, which he left at the Rusty Nail Saturday night after the Rusted Root show, was no longer there. He called back shortly after, remembering that he’d actually left the car at the Backyard Tavern.

• Feb. 9 at 5:08 p.m., a driver backing out of a Main Street space in front of Black Cap Cafe hit a pedestrian, but not hard enough to cause injury. The pedestrian was warned not to walk in the road and the driver was warned not to hit pedestrians.

• Feb. 21 at 4:27 p.m., a person reported the theft of rental skis, and went to Pinnacle to report the theft, but found out that someone had returned them already.

• Feb. 24 at 3:26 p.m., a car was reported driving very slowly up Mountain Road.

• March 4 at 1:03 p.m., at the Main Street-Mountain Road intersection, a driver whose vehicle sported Massachusetts tags reportedly cut off another driver, stopped, and launched into a profanity-laced rant before driving away.

• March 4 at 4:47 p.m., snow fell from a roof onto a car parked in the village, and the owner called police to report it.

• March 18 at 12:34 a.m., after responding to a fire alarm at the Green Mountain Inn, police helped a drunken woman who was wandering the halls to get back to her hotel room. They aren’t sure if she pulled the alarm.

• March 20 at 8:02 a.m., someone broke into a room at Stowehof where the inn stores its fire extinguishers and sprayed one, apparently for a bit of foamy fun.

• March 23 at 3:35 p.m., a Massachusetts woman called police looking for her husband. Police were able to locate him as he was driving back home; he’d been skiing.

• March 25 at 7:04 a.m., a patrolman saw a woman taking a hit from a bong as he drove by the Grace Bible Church, and he issued her and her wake-and-bake partner tickets for marijuana possession.

• March 25 at 6:19 p.m., an argument cropped up between two Nebraska Valley folks who each insisted the hay in a leased barn was theirs.

• April 3 at 1:23 p.m., a driver sped through the parking lot of the Stowe Motel so fast, his license plate flew off when he went over a speed bump and drove off. The man came to the police station and gathered his plate, and then went to the motel and apologized.

• April 14 at 8:35 p.m., a spring couch-burning session outside a Pucker Street apartment was snuffed out by the time police arrived.

• May 4 at 12:23 p.m., hikers on Mount Mansfield found keys and an iPhone. Police were able to reunite the items with the owner, who had dropped them off a chairlift back in November.

• May 15 at 5:27 p.m., a car that had aroused suspicions by being parked all day at the Jolley convenience store actually belonged to a store employee.

• May 17 at 9:59 a.m., a man chased a girl down School Street, both of them on foot, yelling that it was all his fault, not hers, and that he never wanted to hurt her, that he hates himself for doing so.

• May 24 at 10:37 a.m., a woman found a cell phone in her driveway and took it into her Stagecoach Road apartment. The phone’s owner banged on her door and she called the cops on him.

• May 29 at 11:35 a.m., not for the first time, a man was observed sleeping in his car parked near Morrisville Lumber. He told police he was just waiting for his wife to get back from Dunkin’ Donuts.

• June 18 at 9:33 p.m., in a sad irony, a vehicle hit and killed a black bear cub near the intersection of Route 100 and Black Bear Run.

• June 24 at 5:52 p.m., a resident near Black Bear Run thought it was suspicious that his neighbor didn’t get home until 4 o’clock every morning. No crime in that, police say.

• July 9 at 9:42 a.m., the guy parked every day, all day, in his car on the side of the road near Adams Mill was a private investigator, scoping out something ... private.

• July 10 at 9:44 p.m., a woman reported her purse stolen on Plate restaurant’s patio. Later, she called back to report she’d actually left it at home.

• July 12 at 1:02 a.m., a West Hill Road resident called police, not sure where his wife was. She called later to say he was confused; she was right there.

• July 25 at 7:18 p.m., a Notchbrook Road resident gave police a heads-up that a neighbor had been blasting music the night before, and would likely do so again. Police told the person to call if there’s more loud music, and not wait until the next day.

• July 26 at 6:38 a.m., it seemed suspicious that a person was parked in the middle of Sunset Street, cleaning out a car, but police later found the car parked legally, in a driveway.

• July 30 at 4:04 p.m., a man who felt slighted by a Stowe Reporter article called 911 to say the newspaper’s staff had threatened him. The call was made after the man lambasted a reporter for more than 20 minutes on his cellphone; he then visited the newspaper’s office and yelled at the publisher.

• July 30 at 4:28 p.m., the same man called police shortly after to say a vehicle almost hit him on Mountain Road.

• Sept. 7 at 3:50 p.m., a day-drinking man was cut off trying to buy booze at the Maplefields convenience store, and the clerk called the cops.

• Sept. 7 at 9:35 p.m., the same man came back to Maplefields, even drunker, and was taken into protective custody and taken to Copley Hospital in Morrisville to dry out.

• Sept. 13 at 12:24 a.m., a couple of males, their gender easily identifiable under the circumstances, were witnessed walking along Mountain Road toward the village, peeing in the road. They weren’t caught.

• Sept. 26 at 10:30 p.m., a car was the target of raw eggs while being driven along South Main Street.

• Sept. 26 at 10:32 p.m. another car was hit by eggs, this time on Main Street.

• Sept. 26 at 10:36 p.m., another drive-by egging on South Main Street.

• Sept. 26 at 10:36 p.m., the initial call described the ordnance as a pumpkin, but it was also eggs hitting a car by the Mayo Farm and Weeks Hill roads.

• Oct. 1, at 12:22 p.m., a person called police on a prospective roommate who had an unorthodox proposal for tutelage in lieu of rent.

• Oct. 2, at 12:48 p.m., a man had his hand down his pants in a common room at Green Mountain Inn. He ran, and was not caught.

• Oct. 16 at 11:38 a.m., a female taking a nap on a picnic table on Park Street was reported to police. She told the officer she was just resting her eyes, waiting for a ride to Burlington.

• Oct. 16 at 11:58 p.m., a Stowe Mountain Lodge guest took her complaint about service and the state of her room to the police.

• Oct. 23 at 5:02 p.m., some folks came to the police department to share a conspiracy theory that suggests dead celebrities were actually killed by some nefarious underground.

• Oct. 24 at 10:04 p.m., a Maplefields employee reported a man had been run over in the parking lot. He refused medical attention, and told police he hadn’t been hit, but had gotten in an argument while inside a car, jumped out, and fell down.

• Oct. 30 at 7:25 p.m., a suspicious-looking person at a construction site on Maple Street turned out to be the contractor.

• Nov. 1 at 5:01 p.m., a brown couch cushion found on the side of the road was turned in to police.

• Nov. 1 at 1:08 a.m., apparently, the food at Doc Ponds is so good that even its scraps are inviting, at least for the man caught Dumpster diving outside the Mountain Road establishment. Police sent him on his way with a warning.

• Nov. 1 at 2:17 p.m., a trio of sheep was being baaad, taking a Sunday afternoon stroll along Maple Street.

• Nov. 7 at 12:52 p.m., a Mansfield View resident reported a suspicious man walking around a neighbor’s property. The man was a landscaper.

• Nov. 8 at 2:07 p.m., a horse, thought to be loose on Sinclair Road, was actually accompanied by a human.

• Nov. 23 at 9:04 a.m., a driver whose car sported Quebec license plates was reportedly being tres mal, throwing litter out the window while driving along Route 100.

• Dec. 9 at 5:15 p.m., a car hit a moose near Stowe High School. It’s difficult to determine who got the worse of it; the car had minor damage and the moose walked away.

• Dec. 14 at 5:05 p.m., a U-Haul trailer spotted on Stowe Hollow Road looked suspicious to a neighbor, but it was actually being used to move things.

Kristin Grimes is a Vermont transplant, freelance writer and busy MOM (Manager of Madness) and WIFE (Washing, Ironing, Feeding, Etc.) Email letters to news@stowereporter.com.