Odd characters wear out welcome

A man told the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office he wanted three strange characters removed from a location. One of them apparently walked around the place reading Bible verses, then locked himself in a bathroom. Another stole a vase from the bathroom, and the third one apparently left without incident.

A woman on East Idaho Street found a vehicle parked sideways in her driveway. She didn’t recognize the car, which was unoccupied, but she said she was fine with it “sitting there for a bit.”

A woman was “extremely upset and in a panic” when she learned from her daughter’s smart watch that the 10-year-old girl apparently hadn’t boarded a plane to New Mexico as she was expected to do. An officer went to the mother’s boyfriend’s house and was able to locate the watch in a vehicle outside the residence. The girl’s father added he was “not concerned with his daughter’s wellbeing.”

A yellow truck allegedly “blew through” a stop sign in a construction zone.

A contractor said he was shortchanged about $6,000 for work he did on a house, and he reported other contractors hadn’t been paid by the homeowner, either.

A man said he saw a dog go into someone’s yard, then heard a gunshot, followed by the dog whining.

Two black cows were spotted outside their pasture.

A woman said she sold eight bales of hay to a man who never paid her for the purchase.

A neighbor filed a barking dog complaint about a German shepherd in her neighborhood. An officer went to the residence and said the dog “did not bark the entire time” the officer was on the property. The officer was also approached by another neighbor who reported the German shepherd “seldom barks.”

A man who does not use a phone left a green folder in the Sheriff’s Office lobby and a week later he was desperate to get it back.

Someone was keeping tabs on a driver who parked sideways in a park one day, then parked normally the next day. The vigilant park-goer spoke with the male driver of the vehicle and he said the driver “didn’t say anything inappropriate” but the caller nonetheless “got a weird vibe from the male.” An officer did a welfare check on the driver the following morning.

A driver stopped at a weigh station and an employee there reportedly “laughed at him” and asked him to stop kicking up dust with his vehicle. The driver was very upset and wanted the employee to be arrested, but an officer said he “did not believe there was probable cause to arrest him on any charges.”