Botched haircut leads to fight

The Kalispell Police Department was called when a hair salon client became upset about her haircut and “wanted a refund.” When her request was refused, she started “trying to fight people” and reportedly assaulted the salon owner.

A frustrated father called the police because his twenty-three-year-old son wasn’t listening to his instructions. The suspect son was “not going to bed when [his father] asked him to,” but the police determined there was no need for law enforcement to get involved in determining the adult son’s bedtime.

Another disgruntled parent wanted the police to speak to her daughter about allowing the daughter’s friends to drive the mother’s vehicle. The mother even considered pressing charges against her daughter but decided a talking-to from the police was punishment enough.

Someone called the police about a supposedly stolen vehicle, but they determined it was “not the stolen vehicle.”

A careless thief rifled through a woman’s vehicle and “left her freezer open” when her garage door would not close. She requested extra patrol in the area.

When a library-goer’s car was stolen from the library parking lot, he was primarily concerned because his dog was in the stolen car. Less than an hour after he reported the theft, KPD confirmed the man, “dog and vehicle were reunited.”

A hotel manager wanted a guest to be removed from the location because “he was acting very vulgar and slammed the door.”

A daughter jumped to conclusions when her call to her mother dropped. She thought the mother might have been in an accident because she “was talking to her and all of the sudden there was no one on the other end of the phone.” The police located the missing mother at a grocery store.

Someone was concerned because a reckless driver abandoned his vehicle. He wanted the car to be removed from the area, but the police explained they had already checked it out and since there was no one in the vehicle there was nothing they could do.

Someone accidentally set off a building alarm for the tenth time in just over two months.

Someone apparently stole a man’s truck from a bar parking lot and then “whoever took it brought it back.”

A woman in Kalispell, who may have been a police dispatcher herself, apparently called a police department in Texas to complain about “a situation that occurred there years ago.” The Texas police department asked KPD to check on the woman, who “did sound intoxicated.”

Someone apparently called the police by accident and then told the dispatcher, “I don’t need you.”

A father asked the police to come to his child’s school because “he was sure the mom [was] going to cause a scene.”