Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 8

4:33 p.m. Police responded to a dog bite incident in the Safeway parking lot on High School Road.

The victim, a 31-year-old Poulsbo man, was being treated by EMS when they arrived and the dog was in a nearby black BMW.

The man, a Washington State Ferries worker, said he’d been leaving the store after purchasing some food to eat prior to beginning his shift.

While walking between cars, the large fawn-colored dog stuck its head out the partially open window of the BMW and bit the man’s forearm, an event witnessed by several people nearby.

Though the bite was somewhat mitigated by his jacket, the man did receive several abrasions that broke the skin.

The window was down about 6 or 8 inches, police found, and on the passenger side windshield wiper of the car police saw some spilled rice — consistent with the Chinese food the man had been carrying when bitten — and also a plastic fork, still in the wrapper.

The fork was retrieved and returned to the bite victim so that he could eat his food. He was, however, late for work.

The dog was very agitated, barking loudly, growling and moving about the car anxiously.

Eventually the owner of the dog returned. He had left it in the car, he said, while he went to get a haircut nearby.

He said he had left the window down, as he did not want the dog to get overheated.

He admitted the dog, Leonidas, can be aggressive, despite training attempts. He also said he almost didn’t bring the animal with him that day.

Police told him that the windows cannot be down so low as to allow the dog to bite someone and they contacted animal control about the incident.

TUESDAY, AUG. 30

8:29 a.m. Officers were called to a construction site on Ward Avenue about a possible burglary. Workers at the site found that a padlock on a storage container had been broken off and many fresh footprints were found in the immediate area. No items, however, were missing.

8:59 a.m. A worker at a medical facility on Madison Avenue called police to report the possible theft of $55 from an elderly patient.

The woman said that approximately two or three weeks ago the older woman discovered the money was missing from her purse. She could not remember spending it on anything. The worker added that the patient did not actually want to report the incident, but that she herself was obligated to as the woman is a “mandatory reporter.”