Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between May 10 and 12:

May 10

Bird on the lam: 9:25 a.m., 635 C St. SW. Somebody found a parakeet in the lot of the Longhorn Barbecue. Restaurant staff captured the bird and turned it over to Auburn’s animal control office, which transported it to the Auburn Valley Humane Society.

Well hello, dolly: 8 a.m., 5110 Frontage Road. Police recovered a stolen car dolly at an area business.

May 11

Shoplifting: 8:48 a.m., 1509 Auburn Way S. Two men lugging unpaid-for fernented beverages legged it from an area business, witnesses identified one of them and police swooped in to bust him.

Forgery: 10:50 a.m., 401 15th St. NE. Some guy attempted to cash a stolen/forged check at an Auburn bank. His victims, AKA mom and dad, declined to prosecute.

Git out!: 3 p.m., 1101 Supermall Way SW. On the strength of a vigorously-applied boot, two bad guys got the launch not only from the Supermall but also from all mall property for an undisclosed period of time.

Theft: 10:05 p.m., 801 Auburn Way N. A male employee of a local business stole a $20 bill from a register, for which he was fired and charged with theft. Confronted, the man returned the money to store security.

May 12

Fugitive from justice: 1:40 p.m., 3900 block of A Street Southeast. Justice finally caught up with a man exerting his most profound efforts to flee it.

Theft: 3:14 p.m., 1200 block of 30th Street Southeast. Somebody broke into a woman’s car and stole her purse.

Theft: 11 p.m., 3607 Auburn Way S. Two men were about an hour into a visit to a woman’s apartment when her wallet suddenly up and vanished. She suspects her guests had something do with it.

Theft: 3:25 p.m., 0 block of 116th Street Northwest. Two thieves helped themselves to cabinets that had been stored in a parking lot during the remodeling of an Auburn hotel. Perhaps, management admitted to police, those cabinet-pinching thieves may have mistaken the goods for scrap and stowed them in their pretty pink Ford truck, but the thieves hadn’t even bothered to ask first if they could have the cabinets, just left in a big hurry with them when somebody asked what they were doing.

Harassment: 5:44 p.m., 1101 Supermall Way SW. A woman reported that an unknown man had had undisclosed suspicious contacts with her.