Law roundup: Phone calls from the great beyond

Over the past couple of weeks, a general manager reportedly received more than 40 phone calls from someone requesting that they "pick her up since she is dead.” They contacted the police for advice on how to get the caller to stop because blocking the phone number didn’t work. Officers told the caller to knock it off. The man told an officer he was going to block all the funeral home phone numbers, in hopes it would stop the calls dead in their tracks.  

A fast-food employee allegedly found a blood-filled syringe in the women’s bathroom and suspected the owner was a woman wearing a dark green coat who left with a man wearing a “construction coat” on bicycles headed eastbound on Idaho Street. The bathroom was closed until the Kalispell Police Department arrived to collect and dispose of the syringe.  

The driver of a blue Dodge pickup purportedly “appeared to be in another reality” as he drove very slowly, blocking traffic and flipping people off, according to the unfortunate driver behind him, who said they followed him from Montana 35 to the movie theater parking lot. Officers found the pickup unoccupied. 

A woman reportedly shoplifted baby food, baby bottles and candy bars. She was advised that she was banned from the store for a year.  

A woman called the police, alleging her neighbor pushed her around and threatened to punch her, then ignored the dispatcher to yell at a security guard to get away from her door. The woman, who was slurring her words, said it all went down when the neighbor left his door cracked open, which she took as the green light to go inside and get her inhaler. This was when he reportedly pushed her out the door and toward her apartment. Officers talked to her about trespassing.  

Officers followed up with a woman who reportedly wanted to document things going missing from her house. She suspected a younger male was involved and changed her locks. Since then, she reported that nothing else had gone missing. She requested extra patrols in the area.  

A reportedly smoking vehicle with a crooked wheel was swerving all over the road behind a bus that had its hazard lights turned on. Both vehicles turned into a bus barn without further incident.  

A white Dodge with a flatbed reportedly tried running a woman off the road on the U.S. 93 Bypass and passed her on the shoulder.  

Someone allegedly spray-painted a derogatory word on the side of a truck parked at a location for an hour and a half.