an update for the new year

I haven't forgotten about the site. It just seems that Rowena Rappaport and Tracy M. Rogers, who compile the crime report for the paper every day, have toned down the crazy a little bit and there's not much to report here, except for boyfriends threatening to cut their girlfriends "every which way," people killing other people's dogs, the rampant theft of copper wiring, and all the other compulsory acts of domestic violence that the happy holidays bring us this time of year. So my wish for 2008 is that NW Arkansas brings us more stories about pants, topless youths, werewolves, and Mexican standoffs than it does break-ins, firearms, and that damned copper wire.

Some things worth mentioning (or maybe not):

Something happened in early December that made 223 people to come here in one day.

In 2006, 981 people visited the site. In 2007, 4,195 people visited. That's an increase of 427%, and that's what I call getting results.

Of course, I could not have done this alone. Alannah's blog has linked to us since time immemorial, and the newly launched Fayetteville Flyer (swell work, folks) arrived and has sent some people this way. And now we get about 10 page loads a day, and for the first time ever there are probably more people that aren't me checking the site in a given week.

As for those people that end up here some other way than through the links above, they generally come from technorati searches for pissing tags (Hallo, Deutschland!), or googling for some combination of the following words: "fayetteville, bentonville, bella vista, topless, strippers, titties." If you don't know by now, you will never ever ever know. And trust me, you don't want to see anything naked that comes out of Bella Vista.

Another popular search recently consists of people looking for the latest chapter of R. Kelly's popular "Trapped in the Closet" saga. You can read the expurgated version here. The rest of them are generally people googling street addresses. Probably checking out their new prospective neighborhood, only to find they'll be spending an extra $100 to reinforce their mailbox.

So yeah, 2008... bring the crazy, and fight for your right to party.

cool party, He HO, mystery drugs and forgeries

9:20 p.m. A caller at 1712 Westwood Ave. Reported a very loud party involving drinking, cursing and fighting. The caller stated this was a continual problem.

9:59 p.m. A caller at 2701 Hyatt Ave. reported someone had written "He HO" in the dust on his hot tub in the back yard.

8:54 p.m. A caller at Executive Inn, 2205 S. Thompson Street, reported somebody in the back shed with a six pack of beer was passed out.

6:10 p.m. A woman at 16094 Trapp Hill Road in West Fork reported she saw a baby blanket that was covered in blood hanging from a tree. Four dogs reportedly had been shot and wrapped in the blanket.

10:48 a.m. A man at 15562 Osage Hog Farm Road reported possible narcotics in the back of his hay field.

1:51 p.m. A man at Parks Cemetary Road reported he found a box that when opened burned his eyes. He reportedly found syringes, hoses and gloves inside the box.

2:16 p.m. A caller at the Tyson Credit Union at 2591 W. Sunset Ave. reported someone changed the amount of a check the bank wrote from $25 to $10,887.82.

5:45 p.m. A caller at 893 Woodridge Drive reported someone put lettuce in his truck and scratched it.

whippin' it, burnin' it, radar guns, and huge parties.

1:43 a.m. A man at 4099 N. Sunflower Circle reported someone was trying to get in his front door and was snapping a bullwhip.

6:38 p.m. A woman at 13822 Stephanie Circle in Rogers reported Neighbors were burning grass and leaves with a blowtorch.

4:52 p.m. A woman at 2322 W. Lawson St. reported the driver of a small black car was going about 86 mph down Lawson Street.

2:27 a.m. A Caller reported a large party was going on at 121 Gern Trail, No. 12, and about four people were outside.

oil, hot dogs, urination, conspiracies, satan!

4:39 p.m. A clerk at 1540 E. 15th St. reported some children have been stealing quarts of oil all day.

12:24 p.m. A man on Arkansas 265 West reported someone put toilet paper all over his yard, hot dogs in all the toilets and spread macaroni throughout his house.

4:14 p.m. A caller on South Washington Avenue reported a man sitting on the sidewalk, urinating into a bottle.

11:53 p.m. A woman at County Line Road in Bethel Heights reported her neighbors had been partying all night and she was ready to go to bed.

12:16 a.m. A man at 15646 Coose Hollow Court in Rogers reported a helicopter flew over his house and a few minutes later a car with its headlights off drove up and down his driveway.

8:00 p.m. A woman reported children not wearing shirts were at the end of the street at 736 E. Ash St. chanting and some children were hiding because something satanic was coming after them.

6:29 p.m. A man reported a man in a blue Honda Accord driving recklessly on North Thompson Street. The man had a paper bag on his head and was running people off the road, the caller said.