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We're suckers for silly calls to 911

| November 22, 2013 9:00 PM

A 9-year-old Bigfork girl called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office after her 14-year-old brother took her lollipop.

An upset customer contacted the sheriff’s office after a man called him making fun of him for buying underwear at a local store. The man said the caller was verbally abusive and made sexual statements.

A Montana 206 woman who suspected someone was coming onto her property, possibly a peeping Tom, contacted the sheriff’s office after capturing an image of someone on her property on a game camera.

An administrator at a Commerce Street school in Bigfork reported a student who may have had marijuana on him. The administrator said he could smell the pot, but the student was refusing to submit to a search.

A deer carcass and hide were taken to the landfill after a Hidden Valley Drive woman reported they had mysteriously showed up in her driveway.

A Cobbler Way woman called to speak to a deputy regarding her husband and pornography.

A girl was arrested and transported to the Flathead Juvenile Detention Center after getting into a fight with her mother at their Montana 35 mobile home.

A motorist was reported spinning brodies in a Martin City sports field.

A man turned himself in on a felony warrant for issuing a bad check.

Mail was stolen from a mailbox on Apple Lane.


A disturbed Spokane Avenue woman contacted the Whitefish Police Department to report that another local woman made a Facebook post saying she had run over her neighbor’s cat, hit it in the head with a hammer, put it in a bag and threw it into the woods.

A recurring problem was reported on East Fourth Street and East Edgewood Drive after a boy who had been kicked off the bus kept showing up and flipping off the bus driver when she was picking up other students.

An angry Wisconsin Avenue man called police after he confronted his neighbor for letting his three dogs bark right next to his window and the neighbor slammed the door in his face. The man said he wanted his neighbor prosecuted “to the full extent of the law.” The neighbor later apologized and said he would monitor his pets better.

A trio of youths were cited for being minors in possession of an intoxicating substance after an observant West Eighth Street woman reported they had climbed the fence into her yard.

A mountain lion was reported close to houses on Reservoir Road.


An upset Second Avenue West man reported his roommates to the Columbia Falls Police Department in retaliation after they kicked him out of the house. He reported the roommates were smoking methamphetamine around a 5-year-old, but later said he only called 911 to get them in trouble over drugs because he was upset.

A motorist in a silver Nissan was reported driving recklessly, traveling at more than 80 mph, nearly rear-ending another motorist, running a stop sign and driving in the wrong lane, all in the area of Railroad Street.

A man was reported lying on the sidewalk along Ninth Street West.