Law roundup: That’s one way to junk a vehicle

Someone had their nearly 30-year-old sedan hauled to a mechanic's shop after hours and promptly dropped off the map. Employees at the shop told the Kalispell Police Department that the 1999 Ford Taurus had been left sitting there for a couple of weeks and attempts to reach the owner in the meantime had proven unsuccessful. Officers provided the employees with a case number so they could have the vehicle towed off the property.  

Security personnel working downtown Kalispell told the police that a man who had been banned from a bank was sitting outside the financial institution in his vehicle. Responding officers noted that the vehicle, which was unoccupied by then, was parked on a public street.  

Officers warned a motorist for keeping an expired registration sticker displayed on their vehicle.  The vehicle’s registration was up to date, the officer noted.  

Waking up to find her garage door open and her two dogs missing, a woman alerted the authorities. How the door opened was a mystery, she said. She couldn't recall opening it in a week or so. But nothing was missing, broken or out of place, so her concerns were limited to the whereabouts of her pups, who had access to the garage via a doggy door.  

Tired of looking at a syringe jammed into their fence, a resident asked the police to come and take care of it. Officers headed to the scene and saw that it was stuck between two boards from the other side. They unsuccessfully tried to contact the neighbor and saw no other way to get to that side of the fence. The syringe was capped, they said.  

A neighbor hopeful that a sticker put on a box truck left parked in the same spot on Second Street for more than two weeks would get rid of the eyesore. Then they saw that someone had torn the sticker off and left the truck in the same spot. An officer sent to inspect the truck plastered a new sticker on it and left a rock on the back tire.  

The police warned a motorist for turning without using a signal.