Questionable drivers keep cops busy

Complaints about questionable driving kept Kalispell police busy Friday night.

A man hauling an oxygen tank was reportedly driving erratically and speeding. At Reserve and Stillwater, two teenage boys made rude gestures with their hands and other parts of their bodies before driving off, kicking gravel onto and breaking another car's windshield in the process.

Someone drove off the road after a vehicle pulled in front of him and hit the brakes. A woman weaving in and out of traffic nearly caused the same result on Main Street.

At Third Avenue East and Third Street, a near T-bone angered one driver. At Fifth Avenue West and 11th Street, the white Honda wasn't so lucky. A tree on Seventh Avenue East and an inn on U.S. 2 met similar fates.

A driving hazard was prevented when police gave a woman a ride to a motel. The bartender had cut her off when she became intoxicated, but she helped herself to drinks from other people's tables instead. When she was asked to leave, she said she would sleep in her car, but when she tried to start it, police intervened.

Harassing phone calls were reported at a workplace and at a home on Fourth Avenue East.

Phones were stolen from a cell phone store. A girl was arrested for shoplifting at a store in Kalispell Center Mall.

During a traffic stop, police arrested a 28-year-old man for drug possession. A fight at a casino ended with the arrests of two 18-year-old men, one for possessing drug paraphernalia and alcohol, the other for alcohol possession and obstructing an officer.

Unwanted children were removed from a parking lot on Second Avenue East-North. Unwanted snow was blown back onto a walk by a neighbor on Sixth Avenue East, after a man had carefully shoveled it all off.

The elderly woman who fell in the grocery store and later complained of dizziness insisted she didn't need medical attention.