Safe discovery is anything but

A man called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report finding a grenade when he cleaned his father’s gun safe. He didn’t know if it was live, but he put it in another room. A sheriff’s deputy collected the grenade so it could be destroyed.

The sheriff’s office recently investigated three burglaries — one each in Columbia Falls, Kalispell and Martin City. In one, petty cash was taken from a landscaping business after a break-in. In another, a door and window were broken into with money, brownies and pop stolen. In the third, someone broke the locks on a beer trailer, and the suspect left a phone at the scene of the crime.

A man called to report his wife being bitten by a neighbor’s dog. The woman was taking a walk when the animal attacked her. The skin was broken and she had black and blue marks. The owner was cited, but it was noted the dog was current on its rabies shots.

A delivery driver was threatened by a man on Lore Lake Road. He said the man told him to slow down and if he didn’t he’d be “going home in a body bag.” The driver said he wanted the incident logged in case anything else happened.

A man riding the Amtrak train through to Seattle got off to stretch his legs in Whitefish, but when he returned, the train was gone, according to a caller. The man didn’t have any money and wanted to know if it was OK to sleep on the bench on the outside platform for the night.

Someone called to report a possible animal cruelty case in the Marion area. The person said there was a sick sheep, a horse with an abcess on its face and a dead pig.

A woman who had apparently been drinking heavily allegedly hit a man in the head with a beer bottle. She left the residence in a blue nightgown.

There is a seemingly endless number of ways for people to accidentally dial 911. After a hangup, a call from a Columbia Falls Police Department dispatcher to the caller revealed she was trying to turn down the volume on her phone when she inadvertently dialed the magic number. A woman called and wanted to speak to the chief of police because she believed she was being harassed by the cops. They supposedly woke her up early in the morning because her car was parked illegally.

A man called the Whitefish Police Department to report two “train-hopping” kids in front of the property drinking alcohol out of some type of a can. He asked them to leave, but they refused. They were later removed from the location.