Advice wanted on cemetery fence

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office received contact from a resident of Virginia City, Mont., who wanted advice from an animal control officer on how to fix a fence. The inquirer said they have a cemetery with a metal fence around it and every time a moose or elk jumps the fence, the animal impales itself. The person was hoping animal control officers in Flathead County had dealt with something similar before.

A woman living along Montana 35 was advised to get a restraining order after she had to report her boyfriend for peeping at her through the windows. She said she had kicked him out of the apartment earlier that morning for being too drunk and said he was looking through the window to “see what she was doing.”

A feral cat was shipped to the state livestock laboratory to be tested for rabies after biting a person on El Rancho Road.

An anonymous arsonist tried to burn down a garage at a Montana 35 home in Bigfork that is currently under construction.

A teenage boy with glazed-over eyes walked into a U.S. 2 East home, said he didn’t know where he was and that his friends ditched him. He was tripping all over himself and didn’t seem like he was all there, the reporting party said.

Someone cut the fence of a Columbia Falls horse pasture on Columbia Falls Stage Road and stole $3,000 worth of metal fencing and metal feeding chutes.

An Airport Road man contacted the Kalispell Police Department after he received a threat from his brother’s friends — who call themselves the Street Sisters — telling him his brother was going to shoot him with a shotgun.

Someone left the door to an office for a local television station open at a Second Street East building.

A report of a vehicle and house on Granary Ridge Drive covered in what were believed to be paintballs actually turned out to be bird droppings.

A man was arrested for drunk driving on U.S. 2 West after driving up and over a bush and getting his vehicle hung up on a wooden fence post.

An irate mother was reported to the Whitefish Police Department after smacking her child multiple times on Hospital Way and saying “I wish you would die.”

Several youths were reported acting suspiciously in trees on Railway Street.