Law roundup: Store customer can’t flush away rage

A customer reportedly went ballistic over the bathrooms being locked at the back of the store and started punching and kicking an employee on the ground and pulling the employee’s hair. Other employees stepped in and separated them. The customer, described as a screaming blonde woman in her 60s who was wearing a cowboy hat and a flannel shirt, was hauled to jail. Medics were requested to check on the employee, who was conscious but had taken blows to the head.

A man called the Kalispell Police Department after another man he flipped off allegedly got out of his car and spit on him, wanting to pursue disorderly conduct charges. The man told police that he flipped him the bird "because he was driving a Tesla.” The officer informed him that the other man could also pursue disorderly conduct charges for giving him the middle finger.

A plane reportedly circling the area a man was in had him worried it was following him to his destination, a dispensary. He was also concerned about noise pollution. He said he did not have a phone and did not want an officer to contact him.

Officers received a call from a man allegedly following a “road rager” recklessly driving a dark-colored Chevy Silverado. He said the other man was swerving on the road, yelling obscenities and brake-checking him.

A woman reportedly found a Redbone coonhound by the middle school and contained it in her vehicle. Animal control took the dog to the Flathead County Animal Shelter.