Flathead follies follow the snow

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office — along with all other law enforcement agencies in the valley — has received dozens of calls regarding parking and snowplowing complaints in the last couple of days. Two examples:

v Tuesday morning, a private plow operator called to report that someone else had plowed snow 6 feet high into his customer’s driveway on Bench Drive and that he had broken an axle on his plow trying to dig it out. 

v Tuesday afternoon, a woman called from West Glacier to complain that her neighbor keeps blowing snow from his tractor on her when she walks her dogs and that he’s done it on purpose for two days in a row. 

In other news related to the cold weather, a Forest Service official received an email from a woman who had questions about nudity on Forest Service land Tuesday afternoon. Brrrr.

A Kalispell person living on U.S. 93 North reported that someone had broken into their house and stolen a couple of rings and a watch Tuesday afternoon. 

A Columbia Falls woman reported receiving an obscene phone call late Monday night. She said someone called from a blocked number saying vulgar, sexual things. She thought it might have been her sister’s husband, who is upset over a domestic issue happening in California. 

Someone reported a man driving while intoxicated through Lakeside on Tuesday evening in a small, blue car. 

Kalispell Police received 19 calls related to parking, snowplowing, cars being stuck or fender-benders in a 24-hour period beginning Tuesday afternoon. 

A man wearing a flannel shirt with a vest over it and a woman in a purple coat and purple pants were seen walking down Main Street screaming at each other Tuesday evening. The couple were on their way home and were advised to keep their arguing to a minimum. 

A man’s wallet was stolen after he dropped it at a Hutton Ranch Road food store. He said it fell out of his back pocket and a man in a black Carhartt jacket picked it up and walked out the back door. 

A man reportedly exposed himself to a child inside a West Idaho Street store Tuesday night. A mother and her child were in the candy aisle when the man, described as in his mid-20s and wearing a camouflage jacket and jeans, exposed himself to the child. The mother was working with customer service to check the store’s surveillance tapes. 

Someone drove up to an East Idaho Street business, stole the snow shovel sitting outside, and drove off early Wednesday. 

A report of a wildfire on Political Hill near Lakeside around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday was unfounded. The call came to the Somers-Lakeside Fire Department as the valley was digging out of more than two feet of snow. 

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office made an arrest on out-of-county warrants Tuesday. 

A concerned neighbor called Whitefish Police on Tuesday after she noticed that her neighbor had failed to leave his house to plow snow. The caller told police she had gone to check on him and he failed to answer the door, although she could see him lying under a blanket inside. Police checked on the man, and determined there was a perfectly good reason why he wasn’t plowing. He had been asleep.

Someone found a wallet on West Second Street and turned it in to police. It was returned to its rightful owner.