Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and nonevents, most of which never make the news. Here is a sampling of lesser-known — but no less noteworthy — incidents from police log books (a.k.a. blotters) in our suburbs.

SHEEPISH BEHAVIOR

At 2:50 p.m. Feb. 14, someone at Honey Pot Hill Orchards called Stow police to report that there was a sheep there with a bucket stuck on its head. Police tried to reach the owners of the family-operated farm but were unsuccessful. But then the original caller did so again with a happy update: The bucket was now free of the creature’s head — it was unclear whether human help was involved — and the animal was doing OK.

HELD HOSTAGE BY WHAT?

At 7:21 p.m. Feb. 14, a man called Melrose police to report that there was a raccoon on his front steps and it wasn’t going away, so he felt like he couldn’t leave his house. The animal control officer was dispatched to the scene and removed the creature.

POKEMON LIVES

So you thought perhaps that Pokemon Go, the location-based augmented reality game, was on the wane in the dead of winter? Not, it would seem, as far as local police departments are concerned. At 10:36 p.m. Nov. 20, Peabody police checked on a suspicious vehicle on Essex Center Drive. The log entry states that the “party was asked to play his Pokemon game somewhere else.’’ On Dec. 11, Dedham police checked on a “strange vehicle’’ that was “riding around’’ the cemetery on Brookdale Avenue. The strange vehicle proved to be a blue pickup truck whose occupants were two guys playing Pokemon. At 10 p.m. Dec. 15, police checked on a suspicious vehicle in Lieutenant Ross Park in Peabody. In this case it was a solitary Pokemon player who was soon sent on his way. Just after midnight Feb. 13, Hopkinton police checked on a person sitting on a bench on Main Street, who proved to be just another person sitting on a bench on a February evening “searching for Pokemon.’’

LITTLE WHEEL SPIN AND SPIN

Regular readers of this column know that wheel thefts happen all too often. One of the latest examples to come across our desk occurred at 4:17 a.m. Jan. 28, when police responded to a report of people stealing tires from a vehicle at the Mediterranean Woods apartment complex in Weymouth. When officers arrived they found a red Ford Fusion running with its headlights on in the middle of Mediterranean Drive, and saw two men jump over a wooden guardrail and run off into the woods. A 2017 Honda CRV nearby was sitting on milk crates and three of its four tires were missing; the fourth tire was still on but its lug nuts had been removed. Two of the missing tires were found inside the Fusion, and the third near it, according to the police report. Yet another Honda, a 2018 Accord, was soon found nearby propped up on milk crates, sans tires. The two suspects escaped, but later that morning two 18-year-old men from Rhode island were stopped by State Police in a car allegedly stolen from a Weymouth gas station, and, based on surveillance footage, police say it’s the same pair. They were arrested and charged with stealing car parts, larceny of a motor vehicle, possession of burglarious tools, receiving a stolen motor vehicle, concealing a license plate, and conspiracy.

WHY DON’T WE DO IT IN THE ROAD?

At 7:41 p.m. Jan. 21, Winthrop police received a report of a treadmill sitting in the street in the area of Woodside Avenue and Adams Street. An officer was dispatched and moved the exercise machine to the sidewalk, and police planned to notify the Department of Public Works the following day if it was still there.

THE DISAPPEARING BUS

At 5:19 a.m. Jan. 26, Bridgewater police got a call from a transportation company reporting that a bus driver started his bus to warm it up, and when he came back outside discovered it was gone. As police prepared to investigate, the company called back to say the bus wasn’t stolen after all: One of its drivers had simply driven off in the wrong bus.

Emily Sweeney can be reached at esweeney@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @emilysweeney.