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Police won't deliver breakfast in bed

| June 27, 2014 9:00 PM

 A hungry woman at a medical facility on River Lakes Parkway called the Whitefish Police Department requesting that breakfast be brought to her. She reported an unsuccessful attempt to call the nurses’ station after hours. An employee was contacted and the woman received her breakfast.

An acoustically sensitive woman on Flint Avenue called to complain about noisy construction equipment around 6:30 a.m. She said she had made two complaints already about construction noise starting before 7 a.m.

A black bear was sighted about 50 yards away from a barbecue attended by hundreds of children on Wisconsin Avenue. The bear took off toward Dakota Avenue.

A white SUV was spotted driving at high speed, almost hitting a pedestrian on Baker Avenue.

On State Park Road, a man with a red jacket was spotted rifling through mailboxes and putting mail under his jacket.

An ornery man reported called to report from an apartment building on Colorado Avenue that a “neighbor kid is disrespecting him,” riding his bike around his vehicle on an ongoing basis despite a building rule against it.


The Columbia Falls Police Department gave some gardening advice to a person on Second Avenue West who wanted to speak to an officer about pruning trees.

Extra patrol was requested to supervise rowdy neighbors on Mitchell who were reportedly “throwing stuff” from their front porch at a neighbor’s house.


A woman told the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office that someone had entered her home on Mission Trail in Kalispell, stealing a purse and a bag out of her unlocked car.

A man on East Oregon Street in Kalispell wanted a deputy to call his friends who owed him money but refused to pay him back.

Someone on Farm to Market Road in Whitefish reported that a neighbor had cut a fence and that the neighbor’s horses were on the person’s property.

A woman and her daughter requested extra patrol at a Lodgepole Drive business in Marion after giving a ride and dropping off a bushy-bearded transient and his dog. She said the man said he “was living on the land,” and “hadn’t showered for a while and apologized if he smelled,” but said she “smelled really good,” and that he had bought a Wonder Bread truck to continue his travels.

A burglary was reported on Lodgepole Drive in Marion by a vacationer who said a plumber working on his residence found an open garage door and front door and firearms were missing.


Minor flooding and ponding problems were reported after a brief but intense downpour of rain around 1 p.m. in Kalispell.


The Kalispell Fire Department was called to a U.S. 93 North business because of a possible grenade outside the business. The grenade apparently was not live.


A muddied, confused man in his 20s with a “weird gaze” was reported talking to himself and trying to get into a woman’s house on Mud Lake Road in Bigfork, then going under the porch breezeway looking around and scaring children. The man reportedly said that he was being chased by “people in red cars and mean dogs.”

A dismayed woman came home after work to find the dining-room window broken in her Shady Lane home.

A school on Evergreen Drive in Kalispell was reported to have been “tagged” again.

A disgruntled former employee who was terminated from a U.S. 93 business was reported causing a ruckus with frequent visits and panhandling, trying to get money from the owner.

A male was seen throwing around a female on Riley Lane in Columbia Falls.

A woman on Springwood Road in Kalispell reported she found possible drug needles in the possession of her teenaged son.