Law roundup: Officers receive garden-variety complaints

Extra patrol from the Kalispell Police Department was requested in a neighborhood where someone was allegedly cutting flowers out of gardens and stealing flowerpots and shrubs. It was not clear from the report as to whether or not the culprit was obtaining a sacrifice for the Knights Who Say “Ni!”

Officers received another garden-variety complaint from a curmudgeon who was extremely upset about a neighbor’s tree reportedly dropping 80 pine cones on his yard every day that he "had to" clean up. During his rant, he asked law enforcement to “talk with these people.”

A woman claimed another woman was shocking her with “electric guns” that shot “electric waves,” and not barbed probes like Tasers have and requested extra patrol.

Someone went to the police department to report an individual who allegedly choked a dog by wrapping a rope around its neck and also kicked the dog. The individual also reportedly hit ducks with a shovel.

A man alleged his wife, whom he was in the midst of separating from, said she would call the police if he tried to get a “jumper box” out of his truck and then wouldn’t agree to a civil standby from officers.

A switchblade was reportedly stolen from a vehicle that someone rifled through.

An exhausted, very fluffy dog, that an officer was looking for, was reportedly hanging out by a parking lot at the top of a hill.

Someone wanted to help a woman who was arrested get her things back.

Someone at a bank reportedly called 911 but hung up. On a callback with dispatch, they said the angry customer they initially called to report left, and they no longer needed the police.

License plates were reportedly seized off of a vehicle that had been partially blocking someone’s driveway for more than a week.

Store security wanted to know if officers could still ticket a woman for trespassing after she left the property.