Youths on prowl with soda bombs

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received a report of several youths with explosive senses of humor throwing soda bombs. A bottle that “has been involved in an explosion” was found in one resident’s yard.

A complaint by a Wishart Road resident about gunshots possibly coming from a neighbor youth shooting geese against the advisement of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks turned out to actually be caused by Kalispell police officers shooting at a law enforcement range located nearby.

A man working on his drinking problem called to report he was at a Marion treatment center, where he was no longer a patient, and they would not let him leave. It turned out that the man was allowed to leave, they would just not give him a ride. An officer also declined to give the man a ride, telling the man “if he left he would have to thumb a ride.”

The manager of a U.S. 2 West storage unit business took matters into his own hands when a man renting a unit kept showing up after hours, drunk, after being repeatedly told to stop. When the man got inside using his code, the manager walked out and held him at gunpoint until officers arrived and kicked him off the property, telling him he was no longer allowed to return.

A man reported he was robbed on the viaduct by two men and a woman who took his wallet, shirt, and money.

A less-than-enthused Lakeside man on Aurora Drive complained that a fire-fighting helicopter flew low over his property, flipping his trampoline and bending it.

A Martini Lane man called claiming he had been assaulted by a Columbia Falls police officer behind the Columbia Falls Police Department.

An Ashley Lake Road woman reported she woke up when she heard a vehicle crash, then found out it was her own that someone had just stolen and immediately crashed into a brick retaining wall.

A Parliament Drive man said someone broke into his home and stole his morphine while he was gone.

An apparently very thirsty man in his early 20s stole two 30-packs of beer from a U.S. 2 East convenience store.

The Kalispell Police Department recently received a pair of reports of troublesome drug-users.

A trio of possible Cheech and Chong fans were reported driving in the area of Triple Creek Drive in a sport utility vehicle with California plates — and what was believed to be marijuana smoke pouring out of the passenger area. The person who reported the pot paraders said there was too much smoke in the vehicle to give a description of the men inside.

Another report came from First Avenue East, where a pair of people were reported smoking marijuana by the dumpsters and upsetting guests.

One man was arrested and another man found himself standing in front of the police station calling for a sober ride home after a bartender at an Airport Road bar noticed the two, both drunk, driving away after telling the bartender that they would not be driving.

Three reports of a big flash and a loud explosion — possibly a gun shot, possibly bigger — led officers to Fourth Avenue East, where they were unable to locate anything more then the smell of smoke in the area.

A homeless man was moved along after he was hiding in bushes on East Idaho Street talking to himself.

A confusing call to the Whitefish Police Department regarding a family member having a heart attack led officers on a wild goose chase trying to locate the alleged emergency.

The caller kept hanging up and wouldn’t give any further information. An officer eventually located an apartment he believed was the source of the call and announced himself as law enforcement, but no one would come to the door. There were no signs or distress or requests for help.

A trio of exhibitionist girls of an unknown age were reported standing at a high school on East Fourth Street in bikinis, exposing themselves to passing cars.

A frightened man contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department while hiding behind a dumpster near a Nucleus Avenue bar after he ran from another nearby bar, where four men had assaulted him, kicking him and hitting him in the ribs. He was transported to the hospital.

A Council Bluffs Drive man reported his soon-to-be ex was breaking things in the residence and then bit him.

A woman cut her hand with a knife during a fight with her son on Martha Road.

An attentive officer made the passenger of a vehicle get out and pick up the trash that the passenger had thrown out the window.