That plan wasn't well thought out

A pair of poorly skilled panhandlers on Denver Street were reported to the Whitefish Police Department for trying to wash people’s car windows for money while it was raining.

A frustrated former wife on Baker Avenue complained that her ex-husband kept calling her from various phone numbers and hanging up.

A helpful officer directed several visitors from Germany to a motel.

A pair of soon-to-be-former tenants at a Jellison Road property in Columbia Falls contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office after a not-so-neighborly dispute. The couple said they have received a 30-day eviction notice and are mostly moved out, but had still been taking showers at the property. While there recently, a man came onto their property and, when asked to leave, punched the male tenant.

A worried Lower Valley Road man reported finding a dead rooster on his property that belongs to his neighbor. The man and his neighbor have a history, and he was concerned his neighbor would think he had killed the rooster. A pair of deputies agreed the best solution was to dispose of the animal and not contact the neighbor.

A quick-thinking trespasser destroyed the “no trespassing” signs on the Harmony Road property on which they were trespassing.

An inconsiderate thief stole from more than just the KM Ranch Road resident when he took hydraulic oil and wildland fire fighting hand tools from the property.

A wary woman through she had discovered something more major when she reported two bags of a greenish-blackish tarry substance off West Evergreen Drive that may have been drugs or some other kind of toxic substance. A deputy reported his belief that it was a component used when things are shipped out of the timber plant in the area.

A North Main Street man narced out his own family to the Kalispell Police Department, reporting that his son and daughter-in-law are transporting heroin to the area from Washington, as well as his belief that they are using pills and marijuana, despite having their three young daughters with them.

A scarf-wearing 23-year-old man with an accent was reported going door to door at an Appleway Drive apartment building, “being very persistent about getting into people’s apartments to speak to them about parenting.” The man turned out to have been approved through police to sell books door to door.

A Kalispell memorial was found to be undamaged after police received a report that a boy and a girl had been defacing it with a hammer.

A distracted dump truck driver was reported for taking too tight a turn on First Avenue East, driving over the top of a Volvo.

A furious Fifth Avenue East father reported a man refused to stop texting his daughter using profanity and lewdness.

An elderly man with a bad gas problem drew a call to the Columbia Falls Police Department after he drove away from a Ninth Street West gas station with gasoline pouring out of a hole in the vehicle. A concerned passerby tried to tell the man, who was traveling with two children and an elderly woman, about the leak, and said she was afraid the vehicle could explode if someone threw out a cigarette.

The vice president of a Nucleus Avenue bank tried to head off any problems for a crew coming in to clean the bank’s carpets that night, telling police the workers are supposed to be there.