Law roundup: The garage sale that keeps on giving

Someone wanted to know if they “had the right” to go talk with a neighbor who was purportedly holding a perpetual garage sale.

A man allegedly called a bartender a racial slur and refused to leave, so other customers and employees helped haul him away. When officers with the Kalispell Police Department arrived, he turned tail and fled. Management wanted the man and his girlfriend, who had shoved her phone in the bartender’s face, given a lifetime ban.

A woman with an accent went to the authorities to report that someone was racist toward her and broke her phone.

A woman wanted to speak to an officer regarding a pamphlet containing “hate speech” and anti-immigrant sentiments that was dropped off at her house. Officers previously received a separate, but similar, complaint.

A man standing on a corner and yelling into a megaphone while holding a sign that had statements about a “deep state” was found by police to be acting within his rights after someone complained about him.

A woman wearing a pink skirt allegedly went in and out of a building all day and a housekeeper saw her going through the trash, throwing it around, eating cardboard and stabbing a pen into the ground.

An employee called officers voicing animal cruelty concerns regarding a homeless couple who allegedly kept “getting new animals that starve to death.” Their latest acquisition was a dirty golden retriever puppy they allegedly said had been eating pig poop all day.

Five minutes was the breaking point for some drivers to wait at a Center and First stoplight where someone reported that drivers were running the light, which they thought was broken. They said someone got out of their car to push the crosswalk button in an attempt to get it to change. An officer watched the lights cycle through and didn’t see anything amiss.