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Friday, Nov. 1
Here, kitty, kitty with a striped, bushy tail ...
4:50 p.m. — First block of Bulow Woods Circle. Animal problem.
A Flagler Beach woman tried to feed crackers to a cat in her neighborhood on Friday. When it chomped down on her finger instead, she realized the furry creature wasn’t a cat. It was a raccoon.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office sent out a deputy, who questioned neighbors about the finger-biting bandit and was told it had been hanging around town all day and seemed to be limping and having seizures. The deputy found the raccoon in the woods near the victim’s home, and a Flagler Humane Society staff member told the deputy it should be killed and tested for rabies. The head shouldn’t be damaged, she told the deputy, because that is the part that would need to be sent off for testing.
The deputy shot the raccoon four times in the chest and stomach, killing it. The Humane Society employee placed the dead raccoon in a plastic bag. It will be sent off for testing.
Thursday, Oct. 31
Vanishing laptop
8:56 a.m. — First Block of Slipper Orchid Trail E. Larceny.
A man called the Sheriff’s Office after a laptop computer disappeared from his car. The man told a deputy he realized the computer was missing at about 6 p.m. Oct. 5, when he returned home from work. He’d last seen it 8 a.m. Oct. 3, when he left to go to work.
He told the deputy that he wasn’t going to report the theft, but his employer told him he should. The deputy checked the man’s 2005 Volkswagen Passat, but didn’t see any signs of forced entry. The man said he always locks his car, and that he didn’t see any signs of forced entry on the car after the laptop disappeared, either. The deputy didn’t search for fingerprints of DNA because so much time had passed between the event and when it was reported.
