Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and non-events, 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.

GOT YOUR GOATS

When several goats broke loose on a recent Sunday morning, three Natick police officers swung into action. The great escape happened around 7:30 a.m. June 26, when four of the creatures got spooked, apparently by the loud noise of a weed-whacker, and began roaming free on Pleasant Street in South Natick. The three officers helped their owner corral the wayward animals. “We are,’’ said Lieutenant Cara Rossi-Cafarelli, “a full-service police department.’’

OOPS

At 8:42 p.m. June 11, Norwood police received a report that a car alarm had been going off periodically throughout the day on Austin Street. Officers responded and soon found the car’s owner nearby. Records don’t specify just where he was found, but they do identify the source of the problem: He had been sitting on his keys.

NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO APPEAL A TICKET

At 10:29 p.m. June 25, a Watertown police officer began pursuing a car on Arsenal Street. According to police, the driver was speeding and weaving between other cars in an apparent attempt to elude the officer. When the officer pulled the car over on Main Street and ticketed its driver, the guy didn’t take it kindly. Police say he got out of the car, threw the citation on the ground, sat down in the middle of the street, and refused to move. The 24-year-old Holbrook resident was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, speeding, and resisting arrest.

AN OLD FASHIONED TOMATO-BASED MYSTERY

Sometime before 7 a.m. June 16, a woman in Winchester woke up to find her BMW covered in ketchup. She notified police, who found that the condiment vandal didn’t leave many clues. The police chief says there was “no indication who may have done it.’’ The owner had no suspects in mind, either.

LOST & FOUND OF THE WEEK

Just before 10 a.m. June 22, Salem police received a report that a sharp-eyed citizen had found four new golf clubs in the bushes on Liberty Hill Avenue, near Bates Elementary School.Investigation revealed the clubs had been taken from Dick’s Sporting Goods in Danvers. They were soon returned to the store.

HELLO, POLICE? COULD YOU CHUCK THE WOODCHUCK?

At 1:05 p.m. July 5, Stow police got a call from a Boxboro Road resident who by his own account was new to the town, described as “a small residential community with rural aspects’’ on the town website. One of those rural aspects, it seems, had gotten under his skin. There was, he told police, a woodchuck in his backyard that he wanted removed. Not that the creature was causing any trouble. He just didn’t want it living in his yard. The caller was referred to the Massachusetts Environmental Police.

REVENGE OF THE GARDEN HOSE

A 41-year-old Plymouth man found himself in hot water after he was accused of deliberately flooding a home in Marshfield where he’d been doing repairs. The police got involved July 6 after the homeowner reportedly found a large puddle covering the unfinished wood floors. According to police, the repairman had texted the homeowner earlier that day, asking for a key so he could do some work, but the homeowner, dissatisfied with his previous efforts, told him not to bother coming back. According to police, a witness saw a man prop open a window and insert a running hose. The top suspect — the repairman, natch — admitted to being at the scene that day but denied being responsible for the flooding. He was summonsed to court and charged with causing the water damage.

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