By LEAH WEATHERSBY

STOLEN SCHOOL PROPERTY FOUND ON E-BAY:

On Thursday, Sept. 13, at 1 p.m., an officer responded to a stolen property call at Ballard High School. A teacher had been looking at calculators on eBay and noticed two calculators listed for auction that belonged to the school. Serial numbers that indicated the rightful owner were etched on the machines. Both calculators were listed by the same seller and the first had already sold. Bidding was still open on the second. Those two calculators as well as 18 others had been stolen from the school two years ago.

TAX REFUND - EASY COME, EASY GO:

On Thursday, Sept. 13, at 9:45 p.m., a woman in her 30s finished shopping at a Ballard store and went out to her car. She set her wallet on the roof of the car in order to free up her hands so she could load her purchases into the vehicle. She drove to another location but suddenly remembered that the wallet had been left on the roof. She got back to the parking spot in about 20 minutes and did locate the wallet. Unfortunately, her credit card, check card, driver's license, and perhaps most heartbreakingly, her IRS tax refund check for several hundred dollars, had already been removed.

THREAT TO MAN'S BEST FRIEND:

On Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 10:35 a.m., a man in his 30s was walking his dog by the children's play area at Green Lake. The dog was about 20 feet ahead of his owner. The man saw another man, in his 60s, approach the dog and could hear him say "I'm going to cut your throat." The dog owner saw a knife in the other man's hand. The owner caught up his dog and stepped in front of him. He then grabbed the dog and called 911. When officers arrived the suspect was sitting on a picnic table by the children's play area talking to his social worker. The officers found the pocket knife in the suspect's right rear pocket. The suspect said that the younger man told the dog to be aggressive towards him and he was protecting himself. The suspect was asked to leave the park.

ASSAULT WITH A SODA:

On Sunday, Sept. 16, a 20-year-old man and a teenage woman were driving the U-District when they slowed to ask a man in his 20s for directions. The man suddenly reached into the car and grabbed the girl's beverage - a soft drink from Jack in the Box. The girl had struggled with him at first, but eventually gave it up. The vehicle continued up the road, as did the suspect. At a stop sign he walked back to the car and threw the drink at it, soaking both the car's occupants. The suspect was eventually contacted in a nearby store parking lot and detained pending and investigation.

KARAOKE SINGERS GO TO "FIST CITY":

On Friday, Sept. 14, at 1:27 p.m. several patrons were at a North Seattle karaoke bar, singing and drinking. One man requested a certain song which another man, in his early 20s, did not want to hear. The first man decided to sing the song anyway and walked over to the other man, singing and putting his hand on the other man's shoulder. When asked to remove his hand, the singer said he had nothing against the other patron. When the singer failed to remove the hand after a second request, the other man punched the singer in the face and pushed him against the jukebox. When the singer fell, the other man continued to punch and kick him. The fight moved out into the parking lot and several witnesses became involved in the argument. A short scuffle ensued between all parties, after which the suspect and two witnesses left the scene. The singer came away from the altercation with a swollen left cheek and cut lower lip. He was treated by the Seattle Fire Department at the scene. The suspect later stated that he did get into a fight and claimed that the singer and several witnesses had pushed, scratched and punched him while he was on the ground in the parking lot. He and a witness who also had minor injuries declined treatment.

DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEE ON AURORA:

On Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 1 p.m. a manager at an Aurora Avenue store told a female secretary to sign a counseling statement or she would be fired. The secretary had been given the counseling statement by her supervisor two weeks earlier and she had also refused to sign at that time. On Sept. 11, after a second refusal to sign, the secretary was told to take the day off and think about her decision. She said she would quit and started deleting files from the company computer. The manager stopped her by grabbing the computer mouse from her hand. The manager was able to retrieve the files, but then the secretary started shredding company invoices. While the manager was able to stop her, a few documents were destroyed. The former secretary was escorted downstairs, given her personal items and her final paycheck, and sent on her way. The company's loss in work hours is estimated at $400. (