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Just whose lock is it anyway?

| August 1, 2010 2:00 AM

A locksmith was caught in an argument between two people after he was called to change the locks at a home on Grandview Drive around 3:30 p.m. Friday. The woman told Kalispell Police she was having the locks changed in part because she had a restraining order against her husband. But police found no restraining orders on file. The locksmith refused to give either party the keys to the new locks. All parties were counseled by officers.

Professionals were called in at 9:53 a.m. Saturday when someone reported finding a bat that was “not acting right” behind a business on West Idaho Street. The bat was in a box.

It was a busy Friday for reporting suspicious and mischievous activity by young people.

Youths were counseled after someone complained they were cursing and letting the air out of auto tires at the Woodland Park pavilion. The kids were upset they had to vacate their rented pavilion at 3:30 p.m. Friday.

A group of kids were made to leave the parking lot of a business on First Avenue East North after complaints of them hanging around were filed at 9:56 p.m. Friday.

More kids were chased off from a residential development on Appleway Drive at 12:07 a.m. Saturday after someone saw them allegedly trying to break into vehicles parked there.

Suspicious activity by a group of four kids was reported at 12:54 a.m. Saturday. The kids allegedly were walking on Carnegie and Empire streets looking into cars and house windows. Officers didn’t find any kids in the area.

And, at 2:42 a.m. Saturday, officers caught teenagers running around on top of a building near the intersection of Third Street East and South Main Street. The youths were released to their parents.

More kids were sent home after officers responded to a 4:21 a.m. report of people screaming in Hawthorn Park. The kids were told they were violating curfew.

A person reported someone had thrown eggs at their auto on Third Street East at 11:36 p.m. Friday.

Police talked to two people after a confrontation at a business on North Main Street. A man reportedly went to the business Friday afternoon complaining about the price of a product. The store employee made the man leave. As the customer tried to get back inside around 6:30 p.m., both parties were holding the door and the glass in the door broke.

Police arrested a man at 6:25 p.m. Friday after a domestic dispute. His ex-girlfriend reported he had punched a hole in the wall at her home on Sixth Avenue West.

Police received two reports related to the same incident around 7:50 a.m. Saturday. Two men and a woman were reportedly arguing and fighting in an apartment on 11th Street West. Officers arrested a man on charges of disorderly conduct and trespassing.

Police officers responded to a report of an elderly man hitting patients and staff at a facility on Heritage Way at 5:10 p.m. Friday.

A police officer was not able to find anyone at a business on Woodland after someone reported three girls were riding around in the back of a pickup driving in that area at 9:34 p.m. Friday.

At 8:16 p.m. Friday a man reported to police someone had tried to steal the license plate from his auto parked on Fourth Street East.

A man reported a wallet had been stolen from his vehicle on Empire Loop at 9:22 a.m. Saturday.

Alarms

A woman was taken to an emergency room at 11:05 p.m. Friday after emergency responders were called to a home on Oberlin Loop. The woman was reportedly not breathing and turning blue, but also reported to be snoring and crying hysterically.

An alarm that proved to be false sounded at 5:25 p.m. Friday at a business on Four Mile Drive as did another alarm at 8:18 p.m. Saturday at a business on U.S. 2 and another at a business on Meridian Road which sounded at 8:44 a.m. Saturday.