Who would wash a car in this cold?

A panicked man hung up on a 911 dispatcher after getting stuck in a West Reserve Drive car wash when the door froze shut. He was able to get out, but his vehicle remained stuck inside. He was later able to contact an employee.

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office was notified after someone wrote “(expletive) the students” and several other sayings on 25 desks and several textbooks, also writing “(expletive) the students or I will kill you” on a teacher’s desk. Sheriff Chuck Curry said there was no perception of any immediate threat but that his office would work with administrators at the Lake Blaine Road school.

A livid Lakeside woman on Stoner Creek Road reported she and her husband had hired a man to shovel snow for their snow-plow business and that there had been a disagreement over him being paid, but that they had paid him. She said the man was now sending them threatening texts, making threatening phone calls and slandering their business on Craigslist.

A Marion woman on Bitterroot Estates Drive who took in a Labrador/pit bull cross when it showed up at her house a couple weeks ago changed her mind after it started causing problems with neighborhood children and destroying her house.

A man was treated at a Farm to Market Road urgent care clinic after he accidentally shot himself with a .32-caliber firearm.

A pair of loud booms reported by a Braig Road woman were determined to likely have originated at a nearby mill.

A woman was arrested on U.S. 2 East after she was reported driving all over the road. The vehicle was turned over to a valid driver.

A set of wheels and tires were stolen on Riverstone Drive.

A frightened Seventh Avenue West woman contacted the Kalispell Police Department after hearing glass break and banging around outside as well as someone kicking a door. Her concerns were later discovered to be based in truth, although she was not in danger as it was found to have been her downstairs neighbor who had to break into his own apartment.

A clerk at a U.S. 2 West gas station reported his belief that a man pumping gas was under the influence and “seemed to have wet himself.” Officers were unable to locate the man.

A former employee at a U.S. 93 bar was banned from the business and arrested on a pair of criminal contempt warrants after he was reported punching the wall and the bar.

A ruffled resident reported a basketball official at a Fourth Avenue West school was always grabbing youths and school administrators wouldn’t do anything about it.

A frustrated First Avenue East resident said he was being investigated by the department, that an officer took his computer and he wanted it back.

A concerned citizen called to speak with an officer about ducks being killed in Woodland Park.

A woman was arrested following a hit-and-run accident on East Washington Street.

“Lots of electronics” were stolen from an unlocked vehicle on Grandview Drive.

A frightened Shiloh Avenue man contacted the Whitefish Police Department after receiving death threats on his phone from an unknown person that may be related to a past relationship.

A pair of girls were caught with bottles containing Gatorade and alcohol at a school. They were cited for being minors in possession of alcohol.

An employee at a medical business reported a mentally unstable woman lunged at her, grabbed her around the neck and clawed at her.

A Columbia Falls Police Department officer was unable to locate a young boy reported walking along U.S. 2 East to the elementary school with his coat unzipped, looking as if he was freezing. The bus driver who reported the boy asked him if he wanted a ride and he said no, that he was just walking to school.

An eviction process was started against a man who broke up with a woman in mid-December but refused to leave the property. Both halves of the former couple were named in the lease.