The following reports were taken from the Allston-Brighton District D-14 crime logs from Jan. 29 to Feb. 4.

STICKING TO HIS PRINCIPLES

Officers received a call from an Allston post office for a disturbance Jan. 28. The caller said a man entered the post office to mail a package, but after disapproving of the postal clerk’s attitude, he refused to pay and demanded that the clerk give him tape. The postal clerk declined to give him free tape because it was against post office policy. The man refused to leave the office, saying “I’ll stay here all day. I am waiting for my free tape.” When officers arrived, he resisted arrest and ignored officers’ requests to leave.

WHAT A DRAG

Police responded to a verbal fight between a cab driver and a drunken customer at 1:30 a.m. Feb. 2. The customer claimed the cab driver refused to give back the money his friend had allegedly handed to the cab driver. The customer had threatened to hit the cab driver so the driver asked him to exit the vehicle. After getting out, the intoxicated man said he tried to jump back into the cab as it pulled away and he claimed the driver dragged him 600 yards.

VALET PARKING?

While attempting to park in Allston, a woman said a foreign man approached her at 4:18 p.m. Jan. 31. The man, who the woman believed sounded Russian, said the parking place belonged to him. After the woman continued to park in the spot, he approached her again, said, “I will hurt you. You will cry,” and parked in another spot.

NO MORE KNOCK-KNOCK JOKES

Police responded to a noise violation at a fraternity house just after 12:30 a.m. Feb. 3. Officers went to the rear of the building because the front door was locked. The fraternity members and party-goers used a secret knock to get in the door. Officers watched a man use the secret knock and followed him into the home. The owner was arrested for disturbing the peace. Another person was arrested for refusing to leave the house and an 18-year-old man was arrested for underage possession of alcohol and possession of marijuana.

TAG-TEAM, BACK AGAIN

Two brothers were assaulted in the men’s bathroom of an Allston bar at 1:50 a.m. Feb. 1. A man had entered the bathroom and told the men, who were speaking Portuguese, to speak English because they were in America. Two more men, armed with glass bottles, entered the bathroom and attacked the brothers. A fight ensued, leaving all members of the brawl with cuts. One of the men refused medical care, verbally abused officers and emergency medical technicians and was charged for disturbing the peace.

FOLDED

Officers responded to a radio call about a fight on Ashford Street at 2:14 a.m. Feb. 2. Officers spoke to a man who said an unknown male hit him in the head with a folding chair while he was standing outside his home.