Hello, dear Blotter readers! This my last attempt at filling your inbox, and your day, with a few chuckles derived from the ridiculous things people call 911 to report. Starting next week the duty of bringing you the Best of the Blotter will pass to my colleague, Maggie Dresser, the next in a long line of witty journalists behind these entries. In my last issue: Rock throwers, bear spray users and slow-moving tourists! Enjoy the Best of the Blotter.
~Micah Drew
Best of the Police Blotter
Thursday 9/5
8:17 a.m.A woman’s Apple watch accidentally dialed 911.
8:55 a.m.A woman called dispatch to ask some questions but hung up when she got unsatisfactory answers.
9:31 a.m.A mom wanted a police officer to speak to her four-year-old about his angry behavior.
10:18 a.m. Some tourists in Glacier were driving so slowly they kept blocking traffic.
11:04 a.m. A woman wanted to know why it was legal for two men to walk around a grocery store parking lot carrying automatic weapons.
12:05 p.m. Two dogs kept playing frogger with traffic.
2:35 p.m.Two brothers got in a fight and one got a bloody nose.
4:30 p.m.A woman was concerned that she kept seeing elementary age girls at a nearby park during school hours.
4:56 p.m.Someone wanted to report “tweaker activity” occurring near a church.
5:52 p.m.Two drunk roommates got into a fight.
8:16 p.m.A woman flopping around on her back like a turtle was doing alright.
11:21 p.m. A group of pickup drivers were loitering at a gas station seeing who could rev their engine the loudest.
Friday 9/6
12:16 a.m.A gentleman was walking around downtown Kalispell with a compound bow.
2:43 a.m. An intoxicated woman drove her car very slowly into a cart corral in a grocery store parking lot.
6:42 a.m. Siri accidentally dialed 911.
9:16 a.m.Someone thought it was suspicious that there was a six-foot phone charging cord plugged in outside their gym each morning.
11:18 p.m. Someone checked out of their hotel but forgot their marijuana in their room.
12:05 p.m.While doing some kind of drugs, a tenant caused a water leak that seeped into the apartment below them.
12:41 p.m. A man accidentally discharged a can of bear spray in a parking lot.
1:50 p.m. A shirtless man with a “nice tan” was loitering in front of a business.
1:54 p.m.A box of nails was left strewn across an intersection.
2:02 p.m.After being caught in an affair, a man slashed the boat trailer tires of his girlfriend’s husband.
7:22 p.m. A Bigfork resident reported a man shooting a firearm in the wetlands and was concerned they were hunting in an inappropriate area.
8:06 p.m.Some youths on motorcycles were tearing street signs out of the ground.
8:08 p.m. Two drivers were spinning brodies in a church parking lot.
10:22 p.m.A man reported being attacked twice by “two drunk punks,” one who threw an ice cold glass of water into his truck and another who threw a bag of apples at his truck.
11:27 p.m.Someone made a little campfire in the middle of a Forest Service Road.
Sunday 9/8
1:47 a.m.Some youths were reportedly ding dong ditching all over Kalispell.
7:21 a.m.A woman kept driving by her ex’s house and throwing rocks at it.
8:18 a.m.A visitor to Glacier National Park refused to leave the entrance station until they spoke to a supervisor about the reservation system.
11:08 a.m.Several people were trying to camp out at the sports complex in Kalispell.
2:34 p.m.There was a dumpster fire.
9:48 p.m.A woman who just got out of open heart surgery wanted to tell officers that the hospital was “very dirty and weird looking.”
Wednesday 9/4
7:40 a.m.A woman hit a mountain lion with her rental car.
8:57 a.m.A man was throwing rocks at passing cyclists.
11:31 a.m. A pitbull and a lab ran off together.
12:06 p.m.A Kalispell resident suspected they were the victim of identity theft after receiving a call from the Federal Trade Commission.
1:45 p.m.A feral cat wouldn’t come out from underneath a pickup truck.
4:21 p.m.Someone reported one of their chickens was missing and suspected the neighbor’s dog was the culprit.
5:51 p.m. A pack of six pitbulls killed the neighbor’s dog.
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