Thursday 7/29
6:30 a.m. Deputies assisted with the untangling of a horse caught in a fence near Bigfork.
6:36 a.m. An animal warden investigated a lab-mix canine that had been causing problems for several days on Pheasant Drive in Kalispell.
8:30 a.m. After a man fell asleep in his truck in Lakeside, a young woman tapped on the window and woke him up. She said she had been walking for three hours and asked if she could hitch a ride to Polson. The man offered to drop her off in Kalispell but she was determined to head south and declined.
8:54 a.m. Someone combed through a vehicle parked on Parliament Drive, but nothing was reported missing.
9:04 a.m. A concrete wall in Lakeside had graffiti scrawled across it.
9:37 a.m. Several teenagers were yelling at each other on Heart Hill in Kalispell.
1:30 p.m. Someone reported a suspicious person hanging around Browns Road. The person turned out to be a census worker.
7:47 p.m. An intoxicated man was reportedly acting obnoxious at a McGregor Lake campground. Fellow campers said he was rudely demanding bug spray.
9:02 p.m. A dental office employee alerted authorities that a strange couple had entered the office earlier in the day with a small child in tow. The adults appeared to be drunk and had asked for pain medication.
9:42 p.m. Numerous men stood in a front yard on Canyon Road in Hungry Horse, while punching, yelling and hitting one another. When deputies arrived, everyone denied there was a “situation” and no one wanted to file a complaint. As deputies noted, the first rule about Fight Club is that is that you do not talk about Fight Club.
10:18 p.m. A number of people, on a boat in the middle of a lake, were drunk and consequently being very loud. The police report failed to mention which lake they were disrupting.
12:37 a.m. A Columbia Falls resident spotted a drunk driver, but the driver eluded the authorities.
1:34 a.m. A 15-year-old boy and an 18-year-old woman, who had gone on a rafting trip earlier in the day, failed to come home. The pair eventually texted that they were safe and still with the raft company.