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CRIMES & INCIDENTS
two bicyclists hospitalized after being hit by cars in Palo Alto on Thursday
Mercury-News is reporting that two bicyclists were hit by cars on Thursday in separate indicidents. Both bicyclists were hospitalized, but expected to survive. [Portion remove...
 
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on Oct 8, 2010 at 12:40 pm by Tyler Hanley, online editor of Palo Alto Online
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Demonstrator with rifle on Sandhill taking photos of cars
Does anyone know what this guy's deal is? This afternoon, I was heading East on Sandhill just off 280 and noticed a strange man at the corner where the Rosewood Hotel is w...
 
Concerned
 
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on Jun 21, 2012 at 9:42 pm by Rosa, a resident of Menlo Park
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Lots of sirens on late Fri night / Sat AM - El Camino in Palo Alto?
Did anyone else hear lots of sirens on El Camino late Friday night / Saturday morning (like 1:30 or 2 am)? I'm trying to figure out what that was. It was sustained.... like ...
 
concerned
 
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on Aug 31, 2009 at 2:13 pm by qq, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Another armed robbery - almost a daily occurance
Another armed robbery - almost a daily occurance - or so it seems. Now we have the 7 11 robbed again. What is being done about crime in Palo Alto? Is the mayor having a photo ...
 
Concerned about crime
 
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on May 15, 2007 at 2:45 am by Mayfields Child, a resident of the Green Acres neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Palo Alto landfill on fire?
The air is filled with smoke around the Charleston/Middlefield intersection, and there are big clouds of smoke on the horizon. A friend tells me the Palo Alto dump is on fire....
 
Concerned citizen
 
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on Jul 23, 2008 at 7:11 pm by Concerned citizen, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Anyone Heard About a Man Harrassing So PA Women
I heard about a man following women home and coming back repeatedly. Does anyone know anything about this? I heard that there were at least two cases in South Palo Alto.
 
Concerned Neighbor
 
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on Oct 5, 2009 at 8:05 pm by fightBack, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
What's Going on on Arastradero?
Does anyone know what is going on on Arastradero? Police have Maybell blocked off and a friend just called to say police have guns drawn.
 
Concerned Neighbor
 
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on Mar 18, 2009 at 4:04 pm by Doober, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Reckless driving during morning school hours
I am concerned about the high speed and reckless driving taking place within the Green Acres neighborhood during morning school hours, particularly within the Georgia, Hubbart...
 
Concerned neighbor
 
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on Apr 2, 2007 at 5:26 pm by Parent, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
District Attorney Choosing NOT to Prosecute
Did anyone else hear that due to the politics of the issue, the district attorney is choosing NOT to prosecute the teacher and stanford employee who were cited for contributin...
 
Concerned Resident
 
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on Dec 22, 2006 at 11:36 am by Chris, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Honda vs. Caltrain in Redwood City today
Web Link I am actually surprised that this sort of thing does not happen more often in Palo Alto, especially...
 
condi
 
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on Sep 16, 2009 at 7:54 am by condi, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood
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Is there an arsonist in Palo Alto??
I know it's hot and I know global warming is real and there's a lot of dry grass in the area, but it strikes me as really strange that there would be so many fires in such a s...
 
Cool off
 
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on Jul 5, 2007 at 7:45 pm by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Paint spillage along Oregon expressway and on to Ross
There is an obvious large amount of white paint that has was spilt on to the roadway stretching from Oregon expressway turn-off and heading through Midtown via Ross. It’s pres...
 
Craig
 
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on Jun 17, 2010 at 5:03 pm by Kate, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood
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Solicitor selling childrens books
At about 9:30am, a young man (20's-ish) rang my doorbell pitching something about children's books. He wanted me to "sit down" and look at the various materials, then wanted ...
 
Craig
 
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on Sep 15, 2008 at 8:08 am by me, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood
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man hurt at El Camino & Alma
Does anyone know if the man hurt and laying yesterday (Saturday afternoon) on El Camino Real near the Tall Tree is okay? Several people had stopped traffic for him.
 
Craig
 
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on Apr 15, 2008 at 10:30 am by Kate, a resident of the University South neighborhood
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Wed 9:35PM: Just got a PAPD phone alert - assault w/ deadly weapon 100 Block of Calif. Ave.
Suspect is male, approx. 50yo, Asian, 5'6". Helicopter and K9's are looking for him right now.
 
Crescent Park Dad
 
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on May 28, 2009 at 11:16 am by Les, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood
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Does the PAPD have a facebook page?
Our neighbors at Facebook set this page up with a city in New Jersey: Web Link Most of the postings ...
 
crime stopper
 
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on Aug 16, 2010 at 10:16 pm by Twitter info, a resident of another community
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Greenmeadow drama
I'm surprised this wasn't in the paper, but a week ago (9/1) there was some crazy stuff going down here in the Greenmeadow hood. At around 7 PM, a white 90s GMC Suburban an...
 
CrunchyCookie
 
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on Sep 9, 2008 at 9:24 am by Tawnia Baker, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Anyone see a car and truck racing after each other ...
Saw them going down Channing around 7:30 PM tonight. First a guy in a car went flying down the street going at least 50-60 MPH. Then less than a minute later, a girl in ...
 
Curious
 
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on Mar 21, 2013 at 8:04 pm by Curious, a resident of the University South neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Loud Bang in Palo Verde at 11.15 pm on Thursday
Very loud bang, could have been transformer or gunshot, just as I was dropping off to sleep. Power was not interrupted. Not a car backfiring. Did anyone else hear it or know ...
 
Curious
 
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on Jul 23, 2011 at 11:03 pm by Anon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood
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Anyone know what happened to woman @ Stanford Shopping Center?
Saturday afternoon, there was a woman lying on the ground in front of Hair International next to a car; the fire dept arrived shortly thereafter. Just wondering if anyone knew...
 
Curious
 
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on Jun 2, 2010 at 12:02 pm by Metiche\' too, a resident of the South of Midtown neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Another robbery - Downtown
Here's the story at KNTV about a robbery of a woman on the street on Saturday, 6:00 pm on Webster St, between Hamilton & Forest Web Link-...
 
Curious
 
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on Nov 17, 2008 at 8:49 am by Woman, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Incident on El Camino bet. Page Mill & Matadero?
Does anyone know what happened late Saturday night, involving several cars? I've never seen so many police cars and an area of several blocks was totally cordoned off, helico...
 
Curious
 
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on May 6, 2007 at 11:40 pm by curious, a resident of the Evergreen Park neighborhood
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El Camino Real & California Street - Mystery Wheelchair Accident
Hello everyone- I'm hoping that someone can help me. On Saturday, April 11th I was driving down el camino real and stopped at the red light at California St. About 10 feet ...
 
Daniel J. Pinna
 
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on Apr 17, 2009 at 4:45 pm by Tyler Hanley, online editor of Palo Alto Online
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Fire ripping through Walgreens..
I was just downtown, and a fire is bursting out of the roof of the Walgreens on University Avenue. It looks pretty major -- lots of firetrucks and people around.
 
Danny
 
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on Jul 2, 2007 at 1:40 am by FP, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Critical Mass Murder?
I don't know if any of you witnessed the shocking scene that happened during a Brazilian Critical Mass event. Some guy intentionally plows through the bicyclists at a high ra...
 
Darwin
 
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on Mar 12, 2011 at 5:16 pm by False equivalence, a resident of Menlo Park
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