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Flathead County Sheriff

| January 3, 2005 1:00 AM

Flathead County Sheriff's Office took a call Saturday from a driver on Montana 35 who came upon a white Dodge truck stopped in the middle of the road near Bigfork. When she approached the driver to see if he needed help, he responded by yelling "Yee-haw" and pounding on the steering wheel. She wondered if he might have been drinking.

A complaint was made about a loud snowmobile on Caroline Road.

A guest at a wedding party at Belton Chalet was overcome by nuptial nirvana until deputies came to quiet him down and send him to bed.

A woman reported her black 1994 Pontiac Grand Am missing after she loaned it to a friend and someone else took the keys. She found the car herself. Another woman, whose truck was found driven off the road, said someone took the keys from her son while he was sleeping.

On East Reserve Drive, residents were awakened in the middle of the night by two people who hit a deer and wanted in. On Middle Road, a resident feared for the safety of his horses when people shot at elk.

Two people seen fighting in a car near Blanchard Lake Road were gone when deputies arrived. Officers counseled people on Bernard Road after a dispute about parking for a birthday party.