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.

THE GREAT WINE ROBBERY

Someone recently broke into a wine lover’s home in Newton and made off with 300 bottles of vino estimated to be worth $20,000. Police were called to a home on Fair Oaks Avenue on Feb. 3 to survey the scene of the crime. The victim said he came home around 8:30 p.m. that evening and found his backdoor open. No one had been home since 6:15 a.m. the previous day. An officer sent to the scene reported that the basement door had been kicked in, the bulkhead left open, and most of the house ransacked. In addition to the wine, the thief (or thieves) took off with a 65-inch Samsung high-definition television, an Apple MacBook laptop, and diamond rings and necklaces.

PORTION CONTROL

At 9:49 p.m. Jan. 20, Bridgewater police received a report of a disturbance at Mee King Garden, an Asian restaurant with a location in that town. A takeout customer claimed she’d been badly shortchanged when it came to portion size on her order, and returned to the restaurant to loudly make her case. Her argument was somewhat undermined, investigators found, because she’d apparently done some serious nibbling while off premises. In Milford a few weeks later, a diner at a Japanese restaurant reported precisely the opposite experience. At 3:08 p.m. Feb. 6, a woman told officers the owner of the establishment was yelling at her because she hadn’t finished her meal and was threatening to charge her extra unless she did so. Just how police defused the two situations is unclear from the log entries.

NO PROB, JUST OUT TO LUNCH

At 1:08 p.m. Jan. 30, Stow police received a call from South Acton Road, where a caller reported that a hawk appeared to be injured and was somehow tangled up in a branch. The responding officer reported that the “hawk is fine, just eating lunch. All is OK.’’

WHAT’S FLYING OUT THE DOORS? BOBCAT DOORS

When it comes to Bobcats — that’s with a capital B, the farm and construction equipment — there appears to be a crime wave involving, quite specifically, the doors. On Jan. 5, a contractor in Middleton reported that someone removed just that from his Bobcat. Two days later, another Bobcat door was reported stolen in Middleton, this time from a site on North Main Street. “It is a rash [of these crimes] around the whole state, it’s not just here,’’ said Middleton Police Chief James A. DiGianvittorio. “Those doors are interchangeable, so they can fit on any Bobcat. There’s a market out there for them.’’ DiGianvittorio said there have been similar reports in several communities, including North Andover, North Reading, Lawrence, and Haverhill.

RECORD TIME?

Feb. 9 was a busy day for Methuen police, as they arrested and booked two robbery suspects in a matter of hours. The first one was a 32-year-old man from Derry, N.H., who was nabbed after he allegedly robbed the Bank of New England on Cross Street. The next suspect was booked after leading State Police on a pursuit on Interstate 495. Traveling southbound from Haverhill, he got off the highway at Route 213 and proceeded to drive directly to the Methuen police station, where he was promptly taken into custody. “I don’t know why he thought he’d be safer here,’’ said Methuen Police Lieutenant Steve Smith. The 33-year-old Methuen man was wanted by police in Lawrence and Chelmsford and was identified by police as the suspect who tried (unsuccessfully) to steal a cash register from the Stop Quick Convenience Store in Methuen on Feb. 3. Methuen PD posted a video of that botched robbery on the department’s Facebook page.

SUPER BRAWL SUNDAY

Just after midnight Feb. 8, Peabody police received a call from a 4-year-old boy on Shore Drive, who reported that his father was being struck by his friend. It proved to be an altercation related to the just-concluded Super Bowl. The combatant left, and peace was restored.

THE COLD, HARD FACTS

Just after 1 a.m. Feb. 8, police were told that five young men had damaged ice sculptures on display in downtown Salem. A security guard at the Peabody Essex Museum told officers that the group smashed three ice sculptures on the Essex Street pedestrian mall, and that one actually used a cellphone to take video of the destruction. Each of the statues had been paid for by local businesses; all were meant to stand in Salem’s So Sweet Chocolate and Ice Sculpture Festival. One of the sculptures was in the shape of an alpaca, a detail that proved crucial when a young man was found toting the icy head of the alpaca under his arm. When questioned, said the police report, the suspect “freely stated in an aloof and carefree manner’’ that he and his friends were responsible for damaging the sculptures. Five teenagers — two 18-year-old Salem residents and three juveniles — were arrested and charged with vandalism of property. Police took the suspects’ cellphones as evidence, and the head of the alpaca ice sculpture was also seized and placed in the evidence room freezer.

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