This story, datelined Bremerton, Wa., moved across the wires today and greatly amused me:
A 25-year-old woman was arrested for investigation of second-degree assault for getting into an argument with her boyfriend over whether his dog should be in the bathroom while the couple were taking a shower together.
A police report said the 26-year-old man wanted his dog to join them in the bathroom, but the woman objected on Thursday night.
She told him if the dog wouldn't stay out, she didn't want to be his girlfriend anymore. He replied that maybe his next girlfriend would appreciate the dog more, and called her a name.
The police report said the woman punched him in the face several times and the man dislocated his shoulder when the naked couple grappled. He told police his girlfriend threw a picture frame, which broke and cut him.
The woman was taken to the Kitsap County Jail in Port Orchard. Bail has been set at $50,000.
I tried to find the original story using Google News, and that led me to the Kitsap Sun (Bremerton is part of Kitsap County) website -- and this Christmas Eve story, also datelined Bremerton:
A 19-year-old woman who beat up her ex-boyfriend Monday after he drunkenly urinated in a closet told officers she hoped he would bail her out of jail because it was the right thing to do for their baby.
Bremerton police were called to the residence on the 1300 block of Warren Avenue at 2:40 a.m. after receiving initial reports that the 25-year-old had assaulted the woman, reports said.
When met by officers, the woman explained that the man had been drinking and was extremely intoxicated when he went to bed. At some point he woke up to use the restroom, but was so confused he urinated in the closet.
This embarrassed him, she said, so he tried to leave. But she wouldn't allow it.
"I attacked him," she told the officer, reports said. "He was so drunk that I beat the (stuff) out of him."
Somehow, that made it to the top of the Kitsap Sun's most-emailed list. The dog story was only number 6 when I looked at the list. This next story, which happened Christmas day, was number 9 -- and it happened in Bremerton:
When a police officer went to a 45-year-old woman's door Tuesday to investigate an allegation that she was stealing electricity from a neighbor, he was struck by an odd smell.
The smell, the woman told the officer, was from the kerosene generator that was running inside her residence on the 1500 block of Callow Avenue North, reports said.
The officer immediately made the woman step outside. After he told her that she risked death by running the generator indoors, she said she already knew that.
The woman "stated she knew because her cat had just died most likely from the generator," the report said.
She explained that her power had been shut off and she had plugged an extension cord into the neighbor's, although it was unplugged when the officer arrived.
The officer told the woman the residence had to be completely aired out before she could return inside.
The woman "did not seem too worried about it," the officer wrote.
If you remember the Crucified Santa story from last week, then you might also remember the dateline -- Bremerton.
Which leads to the question in this post's headline.
However, oddball things don't just happen in Bremerton. Note this Nov. 10 story, datelined South Kitsap:
A 66-year-old man shot himself in both his legs Saturday afternoon while trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut with a 12-gauge shotgun.