Blotter Bonus: Woodbury Animal Antics And You

I’m often asked: How do you figure out what to write about? How do you get the news?

Some of it is just the rhythm of the week: you know the city council meets most Wednesdays, you call the or Woodbury lawmakers to see what’s new, and I know I’ll put the police blotter out on Saturday morning.

A lot of news gathering, however, is just a matter of talking to folks and keeping an eye out for anything new or noteworthy or unusual.

And it’s that last part that people seem to enjoy so much about Saturday’s police blotter.

Last Saturday I got an email from Jenny Jennings, who lives at the 8300 block of Tamberwood Road in Woodbury.

An opossum somehow got into her home, and when she wasn’t able to remove it—“armed with thick boots, a bathrobe and a yard stick”—she called police. A “very nice” Woodbury community service officer was able to remove the animal, no worse for the wear.

Included in her email was a line about how she thought the incident might make the police blotter, and it seemed appropriate to highlight it today (especially since Jennings was nice enough to send a photo).

This kind of thing is what we’re trying to do at Patch—be a community hub for people to share their triumphs, challenges and the occasional opossum problem. if you have something you think people should know about.

On a side note, there was another recent opossum sighting at a different home in Woodbury. Check it out—you guessed it—in this week’s police blotter.