Driver takes strange child-care measures taken by Kalispell driver

A Kalispell Police Department officer met a woman reported to be driving erratically on U.S. 93 North. She told the officer that “she was trying to calm the infant passenger by driving recklessly.”

A suspected drunken driver was in fact not intoxicated. He simply showed “poor driving habits,” according to an officer.

Police responded to a transient who reportedly was lying down in the middle of U.S. 93 traffic and was crying.

Someone made a pre-emptive call to police because she heard someone might vandalize her car.

Police detained and cited several juveniles who were reported to be drunkenly walking near Seventh Avenue East North.

A vehicle ran over a stop sign on Meridian Road. The driver reported not having brakes.

Someone left a computer and a “baggie of items” with a computer repairman. Upon return of the computer, the baggie was missing. To add insult to injury, the caller also said the computer still didn’t work.

A man threw a children’s tricycle at a passing vehicle on River Juction Road, according to a report to the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office by the driver. He thought the toy tosser was angry about the vehicle’s speed.

A Swan Way resident wanted a deputy to speak to his wife “about her behavior.” She was allegedly throwing things at him.

One caller described a suspicious vehicle on North Main Street as a “dinky old car.”

A man asked the Sheriff’s Office what he could do about his brother, whom the man said “keeps smoking marijuana” around a pregnant woman.

One resident of Grayling Road didn’t know why some adults pitched a tent in the middle of the Lakeside subdivision. She thought they might be trespassing.

A man said that a white pickup nearly hit him on Stillwater Road.

Someone reported 10 horses and mules running free near KM Ranch Road. Animal control helped to corral the animals.

The Whitefish Police Department helped a man call a taxi after he was found lying on the sidewalk near Baker Avenue.

Hospital employees were concerned that two intoxicated patients were going to drive home after being discharged. They were advised to call a cab.

A Columbia Falls Police Department officer was flagged down by someone who wanted to report a suspicious person near Nucleus Avenue. The suspect was “intentionally avoiding eye contact” with other drivers.

Police and medical responders were called to a downtown shopping center to free a 16-month-old child from a locked car. They had to break the windows to retrieve the child, who was described as “extremely hot” after being inside the vehicle for 40 minutes.