Boy does not have a happy birthday

A Bigfork boy’s parents had no problem punishing him on his 15th birthday, with his mother calling the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report finding marijuana and a pipe in his room, shortly followed by a call from his father, who said the boy took the truck to go camping after being told he could not go.

An upset man called police to say he was shot at, that he had heard a bang and then was hit by something in his shoulder, but said he was not injured. He said he thought the mystery shot might have been fired by his neighbors — with whom he had an ongoing feud — because he thinks they want him dead. Among the man’s more colorful comments to the dispatcher were “you don’t do (expletive),” “are you deaf?” and “you’re crazy.”

A suspicious-acting woman with a baby in a stroller was reported on U.S. 2 East. It was determined that she was in fact the mother of the child, despite reports that she was acting oddly around the child and “looks old enough to be its grandmother.”

A landlord disagreement was reported by a Steel Bridge Road tenant, who claimed her landlord came asking for rent, went into her home illegally, took several items, turned off the electricity, and put her hands on the tenant by trying to grab a phone out of her hands. It does not seem that she reported, as was later learned, that the landlord was her mother.

A report of a man walking down Blankenship Road shooting a 22-rifle and shooting at a man who asked what he was doing turned out to actually be the son of the person grading the road, shooting gophers. The son’s father later brought him in to the resident’s home to apologize.

Vandals caused “quite a bit of damage” to a portable toilet at an Antelope Trail construction site.

A trespassing twenty-something led to a call to the Kalispell Police Department after a Seventh Avenue West resident came home to find the man sitting in his backyard. The man had his possessions spread around him in a circle — among them were his ID and his marijuana. A responding officer cited the man for drug possession, escorted him off the property, and advised him not to return.

A mad mom on Second Avenue West North reported her son used his stepfather’s credit card to pay for more than $400 worth of adult entertainment. She agreed to bring him to the police station as soon as he woke up and sobered up.

A drunk man was jumped by a pair of men at a North Meridian Road bar, suffering a cut around his right eye and cuts on the right side of his face.

A miffed motorist reported the driver of a pickup truck with international plates threw a lit cigarette out the window on U.S. 93 North.

The general manager of an East Idaho Street restaurant reported an employee had been embezzling money from the business.

A knife was found on a West California Street playground.

A pair of methamphetamine pipes were found in a West Idaho Street parking lot.

A passerby found a syringe on a trail on the north side of a park near railroad tracks.

The Whitefish city recreation coordinator called the Whitefish Police Department after several children told her a person in a camper at the beach was walking around naked in full view of passersby.

A group of 20 young motorists were reported squealing their tires and talking about beer in a U.S. 93 South parking lot.

A Houston Point Drive man reported his son was knocked down and bit by an aggressive black Labrador, although the bite did not break the skin.

Columbia Falls Police Department officers responded to Fourth Avenue West after a “belligerent and vulgar” woman called 911 saying she had been pushed down the stairs, refusing to give any other information.

An Eighth Avenue East North woman reported her grandchildren found knives behind an apartment complex.