Spooky door has life of its own

Someone might have been influenced by the Halloween season when she called the Kalispell Police Department to report a suspicious screen door that had been flapping in the wind for more than a day. Law enforcement investigated and determined the building was secure and it was “just an old screen door blowing in the wind.”

A chocolate Lab and a German shepherd were seen running at large in separate incidents.

A man with long hair refused to leave a gas station and “was being belligerent to customers.” He eventually walked away and the manager of the gas station wanted to make sure he couldn’t come back to any of the other locations in the chain.

A credit card holder called the police to report his card was used twice without his permission at a retail store in California.

A driver followed another car because he saw a child without a seatbelt in the back of the vehicle. The driver with the child pulled over and got all of the children buckled.

A 911 dispatcher was treated to “classical piano music” on an abandoned call.

On another accidental call, a 911 dispatcher also heard “what sounded like a male voice make a noise” from a caller who “sound[ed] elderly.”

A caller told the police about a “really icy intersection.” He reported his neighbor “ended up sliding up onto the sidewalk.”

A woman wanted a call from the police after she found her mother from Butte in the emergency room.

A man was seen walking through a parking lot “trying handles” on vehicles. The person who reported him wasn’t sure if he had been able to open any of the cars.

A woman claimed she heard “one single gunshot” near Woodland Park. An officer drove through the area, didn’t hear anything and said everything appeared normal.

A burglar might not have anticipated the snowstorm when he left tracks in the snow on the way to steal a man’s wallet from his vehicle.

A bus driver called the police to complain about a car in the bus loading zone.

Someone received a call from a person claiming to be with the Social Security Administration. The impostor told him he had to give them information “or he could be arrested.” He provided information to the caller, but he couldn’t remember if he gave them his bank information.