LAW ROUNDUP: 'Crotch rocket' revs up annoyance

Two people on a snowmobile and “crotch rocket” apparently thought they were straight out of the action movie “The Fast and the Furious,” when someone on Liberty Street told Kalispell Police Department the pair were “driving like idiots” through a parking lot. The snowmobile eventually left, but the driver of the “crotch rocket” was “just sitting there revving his motor.”

A possibly intoxicated man was trespassed from a U.S. 93 South grocery store after he was caught eating items in the store that he did not intend to pay for.

An odoriferous situation was reported on Second Avenue East and Third Street East by someone who said a person was living in a vehicle that “smells really bad” and had garbage all over. The caller was concerned that the funk was a health risk to a day care across the street. Officers placed a 72-hour notice on the motorhome, but didn’t notice an unusual smell.

A concerned citizen on Sixth Avenue West and Third Avenue West asked officers to check on the welfare of a highly intoxicated man who had urinated on himself.

Officers received a report that a vehicle in front of an East Idaho Street business was leaking oil and “they are trying to blow up the vehicle motor,” and “the smoke is a traffic hazard.” When officers arrived, there was no smoke and no vehicle.

A scared Santa Fe Street resident told officers three paintball-gun-toting teens had gotten into an argument about damage done to the property while picking stuff up at the house. After they left, she was afraid they would return.

A basketball fanatic got carried away in his Fourth Avenue East apartment and a neighbor complained that the man had his TV cranked up while “yelling at the top of his lungs at whatever he’s watching.” The man apologized and said he would keep the noise down.

A rambunctious hockey team staying at a hotel on Treeline Road was called out for being noisy after the front desk received many complaints.

A DUI-related call came in after a car was seen driving up the curb on Mission Trail and Whitefish Stage Road then down into a dirt path.

A woman on Bluestone was probably not happy to receive a call from an electronics store that a fraudulent purchase, amounting to $549.99 on her stolen credit card, was ready for pick up.

Whitefish Police Department received a report that an old man driving a brown Chevy Silverado was reportedly “flipping off” a woman and her child, speeding and passing erratically on U.S. 93 South.

A woman on Minnesota Avenue called police to report that her intoxicated boyfriend had allegedly dragged her up the stairs.

Bear spray was reportedly discharged inside a Central Avenue bar.

A woman on Mitchell Way called Columbia Falls Police Department after a vehicle owner wouldn’t move his or her vehicle off a narrow street. The woman said the offending vehicle was a safety issue because emergency vehicles can’t get through.

An employee of a Ninth Street West restaurant said a man in the lobby “who possibly did a drug deal in the parking lot last night” was holding a grocery bag with a hatchet inside. The caller wanted the man trespassed. Officers learned that the “hatchet” was only an ax handle the man said he purchased.

A business manager on Nucleus Avenue told officers he saw a man wandering around a parking lot taking pictures of cars. The man said his vehicle had broken down and he was taking pictures of car parts he needed.

Someone was suspicious of a man who they said had sat in the parking lot of a restaurant on Ninth Street West for a half hour staring at an apartment complex across the street then driving over to the apartment complex and sitting there.