Car washes prove hazardous

An epidemic of vehicular proportions struck the Flathead Valley when both the Whitefish Police Department and the Columbia Falls Police Department received reports of vehicles stuck inside car washes. The events appear to be unrelated and both cars eventually were extracted.

A man called the Whitefish Police Department to ask a few questions about drug trafficking. He had all his questions answered.

Two black Labs were picked up by animal control near Park Avenue.

A deer was seen wrapped in fencing on West 8th Street. Officers were unable to locate the deer, who wandered off with the fence still attached. However, a later report stated that a deer had “eviscerated itself” and was walking down West Fifth Street with its “guts hanging out.”

The Columbia Falls Police Department responded to reports that a group of men kept hopping the fence into a pool area on 11st Street West. Officers advised the men to stop trespassing.

The Kalispell Police Department responded to reports that a man with long hair and a bright green shirt stole “an entire cart full of groceries” from a store on Third Avenue East North. The man left in a dark-colored Honda Civic that had no license plate.

Police responded to reports that a woman on Liberty Street gave the 14-year-old neighbor boy five anti-depressant pills. The boy gave the pills to his mother, who reported the neighbor. Responding officers warned the woman to stop giving away her pills and called her doctor’s office to alert them of the situation.

A woman called to have her ex-boyfriend removed from her porch on Fourth Avenue West. The man was standing outside her house yelling that he wanted to have her arrested because “she gave him herpes.”

A woman found a joint in the snow near her hot tub at her home on Ruddy Duck Drive, and suspects people have been sneaking into her hot tub while she’s at work. Responding officers found no tracks in the snow.

A man told the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office he heard multiple gunshots on North Ashley Lake Road. The man said he though that it was people firing distress shots because their car was stuck.

A pistol was reported stolen from a car on Wild Rose Trail in Kalispell.

Several callers reported two horses— one white, one brown— running down U.S. 2 east of Kalispell. Officers were unable to locate the free spirits.