Law roundup: Marauding chickens leaves neighbor clucking

A flock of mischievous chickens left a Kalispell area man with more than just ruffled feathers. He told the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office that the rogue poultry routinely came onto his land from a neighbor’s property and damaged his belongings. He was “at the end of his rope” and asked for help from deputies.

He predicted his neighbor would soon notice chickens flying the coop without returning if the situation went unfixed.

Someone mysteriously erected a metal pole on a Hungry Horse property owner’s land. A camera was affixed to the pole and pointed at a nearby Bible camp, she said.

A neighborhood near Columbia Falls was going to the dogs with the arrival of new guests to an area short-term rental. A neighbor to the east of the house had heard nonstop barking since their appearance. They suspected the dogs were either stored in a horse trailer or in kennels on the back of a truck.

Frustrated with people using her driveway to turn around, a Bigfork homeowner put up a sign requesting motorists bang a uey elsewhere. But the sign was going unheeded, she told dispatchers, who she asked for help in dealing with the offending drivers.

Someone reported a pair of “stoners” hanging out on a railroad bridge near Kalispell. The caller told dispatchers they had alerted authorities to the trespassers the day prior, but the duo was still there.

A dog locked in a trailer, “barking for days,” prompted a Whitefish area resident to contact authorities. They had only seen one person in the vicinity of the trailer in all of that time. They did not know the owner of the trailer and wondered if maybe that person was in the county jail.

An ongoing issue between a Kalispell resident and their homeowners association prompted a call to the Sheriff’s Office. The caller said the other members of the association had teamed up and were “going after her family.”

A set of holes appeared mysteriously on a motorist’s pickup truck. The motorist did not know where the damage occurred.

The presence of a burned out camper trailer on a Kalispell area road left one nearby resident concerned. They worried neighborhood kids would find it attractive and get into trouble with it. They asked that deputies remove it.

Someone phoned in a report of several large explosions. From the sound of it, the caller suspected one or more people were shooting dynamite.

After a motorist left a car parked near a Columbia Falls resident’s driveway for five days, the resident turned to the Sheriff’s Office. A few days earlier they had asked the motorist if he was visiting anyone in the area. He told them he was waiting for someone.

A Marion woman suspected a neighborhood boy was flying a drone over her home to spy on her and her children.

A motorist near Kalispell spotted someone in an older van stop and light an object on fire before leaving it in the middle of the road and taking off. The motorist thought it might be a sparkler bomb and described it as outfitted with wires. Deputies warned the motorist against approaching the object.

Disembodied screaming in the Kalispell area left one person worried. The screaming, which sounded as though it came from a man, had gone on for 15 minutes.

Loss prevention personnel at an area store reported taking two minors into custody for shoplifting.

Another shoplifter caught red handed at another store was being cooperative with loss prevention personnel, but would not give her name. She was trying to steal alcohol, they told deputies.

A boat trailer left parked in front of a no boat trailer parking sign for two weeks left one person irked.