Planner prank prompts panic

Locating a planner on the steps of an Appleway Drive business Thursday morning, a woman picked it up. It popped! Surprised, she called Kalispell police. She called back a few minutes later when she learned the prank planner had been left as an April Fool’s joke by another employee.

Officers decided not to bother the injured seagull lying near a motel on U.S. 93 South Wednesday evening.

On charges of DUI and DUI per se, officers arrested the man found slumped over the wheel of his running vehicle at 9:49 p.m. Wednesday along First Avenue West.

Unknown persons apparently spit all over the door of a church on Main Street sometime Wednesday night.

Four skateboarders willingly left the Whitefish Street area when asked to go around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

A green Subaru Impreza was stolen from a Second Avenue West residence Thursday morning. The vehicle apparently didn’t lock and the keys were inside.

Officers received 58 calls for service between 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and 2:30 p.m. Thursday.

Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies responded to concerns of indecent exposure and swearing at a Blaine Heights Road residence around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

A teen was counseled about harassing his ex-girlfriend around 5:40 p.m. Wednesday.

After he was removed from a U.S. 2 West bar, a man claimed security assaulted him by throwing him out. The man, who apparently had been drinking, was driven home by a friend shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday.

Although the man seen tearing up railroad ties near U.S. 2 East around 11 a.m. Thursday might have looked suspicious, he, in fact, worked for the railroad.

Deputies received 132 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

Whitefish police asked some loitering sign-holding panhandlers to leave the drive-through area of a U.S. 93 fast-food restaurant Wednesday night. The two men were later located at a nearby gas station, and once again were asked to move along.

Two men seen drinking in a vehicle parked along East Fourth Street apparently were just waiting for a friend around 7 p.m. Wednesday.

A Subaru’s window was smashed while it was parked in a downtown parking lot.

Officers received 19 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

Columbia Falls Police received 10 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

Alarms

A man with a dislocated shoulder was transported to North Valley Hospital around 1 a.m. Thursday after another man apparently pushed him to the ground at a bar on U.S. 2 West.

Around 3 a.m. Thursday, Montana Highway Patrol and Flathead Electric Cooperative repaired a telephone that was nearly broken in half. Although it appeared to have been hit by a car, there was no vehicle nearby.

The 13-year-old skier who sustained a dislocated shoulder at a Whitefish ski area around noon Thursday was not transported.

One person was transported to Kalispell Regional Medical Center following a two-vehicle accident near the intersection of Fifth Avenue West North and West Montana Street around 2 p.m. Thursday.