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 (aka blotters) in our suburbs.

EASY CHAIR? HARDLY

Laying back in a recliner is the picture of comfort — or supposed to be, anyway. But for one Peabody woman, the usual place of repose proved anything but, just after 1 a.m. May 30, when she managed to get her arm lodged in a chair and couldn’t break loose. Peabody police were alerted, as were firefighters, who helped free her from her furniture.

A LESSON LEARNED TOO WELL

On May 17, Stow police received a 911 call from Heights Street, but the caller hung up before imparting any information. Police called the number back, naturally, and the woman who answered insisted there was no emergency. She had been showing her son how to dial 911, she explained, and apparently the boy put his newly acquired skill to use sooner than she expected.

BYE-BYE BIRDIE

At 8:46 p.m. May 18, school custodian Bobby Wright called Maynard police to report a wild turkey inside the Fowler School on Tiger Drive. Wright told the dispatcher the bird flew into the school courtyard before entering the building itself, and it refused to leave. The animal control officer was notified, but Wright was able to escort the bird from the premises before help arrived.

FURTHER TALES OF THE TRAPPED

On the morning of May 21, Marblehead police received two calls reporting people locked in places they didn’t want to be. The first came from a woman trapped with a friend inside Abbott Hall on Washington Street. The woman told police she was dropping off her artwork for the Marblehead Festival of Arts and was showing her friend around the building. They went through an open door and then became locked between that one and another, unable to get outside or back inside. While on the phone with the police, though, she was able to get the attention of someone who opened one of the doors. Later the same morning, a woman on Franklin Street called to report her daughter locked in the bathroom of their apartment, unable to get out for an hour. Apparently, the doorknob hadn’t been working and had been removed, and the tenants had been using other devices to get in and out. Firefighters responded and the daughter was soon freed.

THE PERILS OF SMOKING, CONTINUED

Remember the man wanted on a drug charge who was caught by cops smoking at an MBTA station in Quincy in April? The same thing happened againMay 23 at the Davis Square MBTA station in Somerville. This time, transit police officers noticed a 30-year-old Boston resident puffing away on a cigarette near several “NO SMOKING’’ signs. Officers subsequently discovered that the smoker was wanted on charges of uttering a false check and larceny over $250, and there were warrants out for him from Attleboro District Court, Wrentham District Court, and Milford District Court. He was taken to transit police headquarters, and during the booking process, police learned that the Rhode Island State Police also had an extraditable warrant out for him.

WEEDING IT OUT

On May 25, Hanover police tweeted photos of marijuana plants growing in a wooded area. The images showed a well-kept pot garden with a water pump. Hanover police tweeted: “If these 50 marijuana plants belong to you, feel free to swing by . . . to retrieve them.’’ It was accompanied by an appropriate hashtag: “#outofbusiness.’’

RACCOONS EVERYWHERE

On May 26, Dedham police helped rescue a baby raccoon whose head had become stuck in a chain-link fence on Woodlawn Street. Officers were able to free the creature, which scurried away to a nearby tree. The very next day, police in that town conducted yet another raccoon rescue, this time of an animal trapped in a catch basin in the parking lot of St. Mary of the Assumption Church.

DID THEY TREAT MICHELANGELO LIKE THIS?

At 7:36 p.m. May 29, Beverly police were told a man was slumped over in the driver’s seat of a vehicle on Elliott Street. True enough, the responding officer discovered: The guy did appear to be slumped over. But with good cause: He was drawing.

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