More like 'hide and drive grandma crazy'

A Fourth Avenue West grandmother no doubt regretted her decision to tell her 4-year-old grandson to go play outside because the weather was nice when she then couldn’t find the boy. But with a little help from Kalispell Police officers, the child was located, reportedly playing hide-and-go-seek with his unknowing grandmother.

A meandering motorist accidentally drove off Woodland Avenue, about 60 feet down an embankment and into a tree. The driver was uninjured.

A tapped-out parent called for an officer to respond to a Second Avenue East North home to tell the parent’s 12-year-old and 10-year-old children that ‘it’s not OK to hit.’

A man was cited and released after an Appleway Drive woman reported that he knocked on her door and asked where her children were (she didn’t have any children), then pounded on the door and demanding that she open it.

A confounded Third Avenue East North man called for help catching a feral cat loose in his house, which he was so far unable to capture.

Someone broke into a Northwest Lane school and stole all of the keys from the main office, also going through several drawers.

A Whitefish Stage Road woman shared her concern that a child will get hit by traffic that is behind the school every day.

A wildlife warning was issued by a passerby on East Center Street, who reported that four deer were walking down the road toward Main Street. The concerned citizen asked officers to try and direct the deer another way.

A pair of youths were reported swinging from a branch at an Eighth Avenue East park. The person who reported them was concerned they might break the branch.

About $1,000 worth of treated lumber was stolen from a Ponderosa Street property.