Drunk man's threats drive caller crazy

A man was the focus of a pair of calls to the Kalispell Police Department Friday evening due to his unusual and uncouth behavior.

The man was first reported at 4:30 p.m., wandering down the street drunk and being loud. The person who reported the man said he was in her face and emotional, and that while she wasn’t threatened by him, he was “very delusional.” Officers were unable to locate him, but also received word that he had been at a nearby bar disrupting tables and yelling.

He was again reported to police shortly after 6 p.m., when he reportedly threatened to kill a person on 11th Street West. That person screamed at dispatchers for police and threatened to hurt someone before being disconnected.

A man gave “sleeping with the fishes” a new meaning when he was reported snoozing next to a fish statue in Depot Park.

An Eighth Street East family caught up in celebrating the warm weather was advised it is illegal to set off fireworks in the city.

Officers were unable to locate an indecisive motorist reported traveling at roughly 100 miles per hour on U.S. 93 South after having been seen traveling at less than the speed limit.

A South Meadows Drive woman shared her displeasure with her neighbor, who previously planted a tree on the property line, and that the tree grew into her property and the neighbor mows her lawn around the tree. She felt the action was trespassing onto her lawn.

A Looking Glass Avenue resident complained about an 8-year-old neighbor boy shooting a pellet gun into their back yard and that the pellets were bouncing everywhere. The resident also warned the child’s mother might cause a disturbance after officers left, that she had done so in the past.

A concerned Appleway Drive tenant reported people out on the deck of a nearby apartment acting suspicously and smoking something from a pipe, but that he did not believe it was marijuana.

A distracted driver was reported to the Whitefish Police Department after being seen nearly driving off the road while talking on a cellphone.

A motorist received “numerous warnings and citations” after leading police on a pursuit from West Fourth Street.

A group of thrill-seeking pre-teens were counseled after being reported riding around the Colorado Avenue neighborhood on a homemade go-kart.

A car reported parked the wrong way on Iowa Avenue and smashed in on both ends turned out to have been involved in a hit-and-run accident.

A nervous First Avenue East man contacted the Columbia Falls Police Department to report his belief that someone entered his home, stole his phone, and later returned it.

A report of neighbors fighting on Martha Road turned out to be a woman distraught over a friend that was assaulted in Lake County.