Forest Grove Police Log excerpt, 6 September 2017

This snippet comes form the log of local police activity in the past week.

August 30* A caller reported that a man hit a telephone pole with a machete. Officers found the man but no evidence of machete damage to the pole.

I can safely say, I have never assumed machete damage to a telephone pole. I'm not even sure if I'd be able to distinguish machete damage from damage caused by other long bladed instruments. I'm glad that the police were able to rule it out though.