[From the Daily Olympian, Jan. 12, 1935 comes a tale from a more innocent era. Notice there is no mention of any potential criminal prosecution]:

Girl Breaks Street Lamps So She Can Sleep and City Police Face Dark Puzzle

Olympia police are having their troubles, what with their strenuous efforts to straighten out long-neglected traffic problems, but their latest poser reached the desk Friday when, after days of puzzled investigation, they found out why it was virtually an impossibility to keep a street light at Twenty-sixth and Columbia. Reason for the bulb casualties at that point, police found, was that:

A girl who lives nearby breaks 'em.

Reason for her breaking them, the officers also found is that the light (when unbroken) shines into the girl's bedroom window, disturbs her rest, and otherwise makes life nearly unbearable.

Further, the girl has vowed to keep on breaking the street lamps as long as the city keep putting 'em in.

Solutions of the problem, most of them offered by the police after considerable concentration and not a little collaboration, vary.

Police Chief John Walker said he thought something would have to be done about it.

Patrolman Beal Messinger was of the opinion that the city would "save money" by investing in a window shade for the disgruntled girl, and Officer Walt Hamilton thought the city might compromise with the girl and take the light out completely.

Possibly the best-- and certainly workable-- proposal for solution of the problem came from Detective (Big Ray) Hays.

"What the city oughta do, as I see it," Big Ray opines, "in order to completely satisfy the customer and save the city money on light globes would be to put the globes in during the day, and take 'em out at night."

From City Electrician Chester Kirsop no possible solution was forthcoming. "Chet" has been the only one who has had to fill out innumerable requisitions for light globes the past few weeks. He's still just a little puzzled about the whole thing.