San Mateo County (Map, News) - These are excerpts from Peninsula police departments’ daily log of activities. Incidents are listed by city.

Burlingame

Crash course: A male driver spun out of an intersection, hit the curb, the sidewalk and a tree and drove down the road with a flat tire on the corner of Bayswater Avenue and Victoria Road before 5:59 p.m. on April 19.

San Bruno

I smell a rat: Before 6:57 a.m. on April 16, someone left a dead rat on a man’s doorstep on the 2300 block of Whitman Way.

Foster City

Rude gestures: A disturbance call was made at 4:09 p.m. April 18 from Foster City Boulevard for 10 middle school age children who were being rude and making inappropriate gestures toward shopping center customers.

San Mateo

No withdrawal: At 11:32 a.m. April 16 at 300 E. Santa Inez Ave., someone broke into a building and then broke the lock to a deposit box. Nothing appeared to be missing.

Cardboard theft: A theft was reported at 2:37 p.m. April 16 at 1900 S. El Camino Real when a subject was taking cardboard. The adult subject was wearing a white sweater and jeans and driving a white Ford truck.

Road rage: A caller reported that a black Chevy truck with a 35-year-old male driver pulled up next to her, yelled at her and then showed her a knife at 7:02 p.m. April 16 on West Hillsdale Boulevard and Rockwood Court.

Daly City

Hot off the presses: Arson was reported at 3:26 a.m. April 17 in front of a third-floor apartment in the hallway at 75 Poncetta Drive, Westlake Village Apartments. A partially burned newspaper on a doormat was discovered by the tenants.

Redwood City

Detention: A 13-year-old pushed a teacher twice at 10:25 a.m. April 18, according to reporting party at the school.