Reckless teen drivers prompt extra patrols
The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office was called in to do extra patrols on Karrow Avenue near Whitefish after a resident caught his neighbor’s teenage daughters doing a burnout in his driveway. They quickly drove off when he approached them with a rifle.
An irate patron at a U.S. 2 West bar near Columbia Falls reported a young child — who turned out to be the owner’s son — was in the bar with a fishing pole that had a dollar attached to the line. The patron became upset when the youth jerked the dollar away while the patron tried to grab it.
An observant wife of a U.S. Border Patrol agent found evidence of marijuana being grown in a Kokanee Bend Drive home while checking on damage caused by a water leak for the person to whom she is leasing the house.
A White Birch Lane man was arrested after calling 911 to say law enforcement could take him into custody for beating his wife, even though his wife tried to say that their argument was verbal only, he wasn’t beating her and she wasn’t injured.
A black bear and her cubs narrowly avoided being hit by a motorist on Ferndale Drive in Bigfork, although it looked like the bear hadn’t been so lucky in the past, as the motorist reported it was limping like it had been hit before.
A person, possibly a young man, wearing a black afro wig and a skeleton mask tried to kick in the door of an Eighth Avenue East North home, but the plucky resident opened the door and told the person to leave, getting in a heated argument before the person ran off. The resident then contacted the Kalispell Police Department, noting that the person sounded “fairly young.”
A peeing panhandler on Hutton Ranch Road caught the attention of a passerby, who called 911. The man, who had a backpack and a cardboard sign, turned out to be the same person who had been throwing fireworks at vehicles the prior night. He was sent on his way.
In an obvious failure of its primary purpose, a freezer in the back of a truck caught fire in a North Main Street parking lot but was put out by a good Samaritan with a fire extinguisher.
A woman with either the worst luck ever or a very angry ex-boyfriend reported her tires had been slashed for the sixth time, this time on Claremont Street.
The Whitefish Police Department was pulled into a family argument when a woman reported two vehicles belonging to her stolen from a Blanchard Lake Drive property. The vehicles — a totaled Ford Mustang and a non-working 1970 Volkswagen — had been on her sister’s property, who wanted the “eyesores” removed from her lawn. It was determined that the woman’s mother had the vehicles towed, and the woman was advised she could seek a judicial solution in small claims court.
A “violent character and assault” were reported at a Central Avenue bar, where one patron took a swing at another, although it is unclear if they made contact.