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.

NATURE PAYS A CALL

At 12:37 a.m. Feb. 3, a woman called Hopkinton police to report that her dog was agitated and simply wouldn’t stop barking, and she feared someone might be lurking outside. An officer was dispatched to the home on Pendulum Pass, and could hardly miss the source of the dog’s distress — nine deer hanging out on the front lawn.

WHERE AM I?

As we all know, GPS systems aren’t always accurate. Sometimes you have to forgo technology and go back to the basics to find out where you are and how to get to where you want to go. Such was the case in Stow Jan. 27, when police checked on a suspicious man who was seen running back and forth on Great Road checking on mailboxes. When officers spoke to him, he proved to be an Uber driver looking for the address of a passenger he was supposed to pick up. Eventually, police reported, he and his passenger met up at a nearby gas station.

MYSTERY SOLVED

On Jan. 25, a woman walked into the Winthrop police station to report that she’d heard a beeping sound coming from a trash barrel near the bridge leading to East Boston. She said she saw what appeared to be a plastic bag inside the barrel, and decided to do the right thing and follow what has become our country’s unofficial motto: If you see something, say something. Police soon found the source of the noise — a shoplifting alarm cut from a piece of merchandise, presumably stolen.

WE’LL TAKE THAT GUN, PARDNER

On the evening of Jan. 17, a Fall River man called Bridgewater police to report that his car had been repossessed the previous day by a company based in that town. The problem, he said, was that his handgun was still inside it. Bridgewater police confiscated the weapon and notified the police department that had issued his pistol permit.

MAMA TRIED TO RAISE ME BETTER

At 10:10 p.m. Jan. 28, a woman walked into the police station in Saugus to report that a black four-door Hyundai had backed into her car outside a McDonald’s on Route 1 north. She said she went up to the driver and told him “you just hit my car.’’ The driver said “nope’’ and drove away. The woman took down the license plate number, which police traced to a black 2010 Hyundai Sonata in Peabody. Officers went to that home and spoke to the mother of the driver, who said she’d make sure her son took the proper steps to address the incident.

WRONG NUMBER TIMES TWO

At 4:41 a.m. Feb. 1, Mansfield police received what appeared to be a 911 hang-up call from a home on Justin Drive. Dispatch reported hearing a male voice on the line, then nothing further. The dispatcher called the number back and spoke to a man who said he’d been trying to call India. Such misdirected calls happen all too frequently, because to call outside the United States, you’re supposed to dial 011 and then the code of the country you’re trying to reach — and India’s is 91. An officer was dispatched to the home to verify that everything was OK, and was assured by a woman there that they were, but she denied that anyone in the house had attempted to make such a call. It took some doing but police finally cracked the case: The would-be caller was using Vonage as his Internet phone service provider, and had failed to notify the firm when he moved. He now lived in Attleboro. Police there were notified and the man was advised to update his Vonage account information.

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