Well, it was a productive weekend for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. At an event at the temporary parking lot outside the Douglas County Courthouse, it collected a whopping 175 pounds of prescription and over-the-counter medications Saturday during its National Drug Take-Back Day event, according to the sheriff’s office.

That’s more pounds in drugs than some people weigh. Nice work, sheriff’s office.

If you missed the event, no worries. There’s a green drop-off box in the lobby of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center (a.k.a. the district courthouse) at 111 E. 11th St. that safely takes drugs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The medications are accepted anonymously and without cost for safe disposal, no questions asked.

“This drug take-back initiative is designed to help prevent pill abuse, misuse and theft,” sheriff’s office spokeswoman Sgt. Kristen Dymacek said in a news release. “Medicines that are left to sit in home cabinets and aren’t used are highly susceptible to misuse and abuse.”

For more information about the event, call the sheriff’s office at 841-0007.

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A resident of an apartment complex in the 900 block of Monterey Way on Saturday woke up to a “dusty substance” “falling from the ceiling onto his face” around 1:15 a.m., Lawrence Police Department spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley said.

The resident then turned on his bedroom light and checked out the ceiling. When he did, he noticed a hole in the ceiling and another one in the south wall above the headboard of his bed.

The man said he didn’t hear anything going on outside his home before the incident and did not know what had happened. Responding officers examined the holes and determined they’d been the result of a gun going off outside the apartment building to the west.

Police canvassed the neighborhood, speaking with one person who said he’d heard a single gunshot and seen a vehicle leave the area northbound on Monterey Way.

No suspects have been identified, and, thankfully, no one was hurt.

A similar situation happened just last Wednesday around 11 p.m. when a homeowner in the 3000 block of West 19th Court reported finding a stray bullet lodged in a medicine cabinet.