Funny Police Reports in Montana papers (Bozeman, Bridger: campground, auction, trailer)

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The Bozeman Police Department reports for Sunday included the following:

• An older man was driving a large sedan extremely slow and kept stopping in the middle of the road around 6:30 a.m. He was possibly driving a Cadillac.
• Police determined that a badly damaged vehicle parked in a Ferguson Avenue parking lot had been used to make a video involving a crash.
• Police found a 75-year-old man reported missing. He was standing on his front porch.
• A caller reported seeing what looked “like a giant squirrel, possibly an otter,” crawl into the engine of a Buick parked at North Bozeman Avenue and Main Street around 4 p.m.
• A bike with multiple stickers on it, including one that stated “They still hang bike thieves in Montana,” was stolen near Bozeman High School.
• People were singing and playing guitar loudly around a fire at a South Third Avenue home around 10:15 p.m.

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The Bozeman Police Department reports for Tuesday included the following:

• A man was warned for riding a skateboard in the middle of the street with no lights at 12:40 a.m.
• A man was reportedly digging a hole in his backyard at 4:25 a.m.
• A group of people stole some alcohol from a Seventh Avenue business using an electric shopping cart. When they realized they were being pursued, they abandoned the cart and the alcohol.
• A man wanted confirmation that it’s not illegal for him to smoke a cigarette on his own roof.
• A kid who grabbed a key out of an excavator and threw it into the Bozeman ponds was warned.
• Officers responded to 122 calls.

The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office reports for Tuesday included the following:

• A man said someone had gotten into his unlocked car, turned on the lights and killed the battery. When asked if he may have left the lights on himself, he said he was certain that wasn’t the case and an unknown man must have done it.
• Someone broke into a Jetway Drive home the previous night and moved things around.

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The Bozeman Police Department reports for Wednesday included the following:

• A caller complained about someone weed whacking and mowing the lawn at 8:05 a.m.
• A man selling soap products was stopped and warned for posing as a government employee.

The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office reports for Wednesday included the following:

• Participants in a hot tub party on Mary Road at 12:55 a.m. were told to put a stop to the noise.
• An Azure Road resident said that neighbors keep complaining about her son skipping rocks on the river.

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The Bozeman Police Department reports for Friday included the following:

• A duffle bag was reportedly sitting on the corner of Pondera Avenue and Ravalli Street.
• Reportedly suspicious people seen on porches were actually salesmen.
• An intoxicated man was warned for disturbing his Grand Avenue neighbors at 3:50 p.m.
• Sprinklers at a 23rd Avenue apartment complex had been running for the last four days.
• Officers responded to a complaint of people yelling at a hotel at 10:50 p.m. Officers found several kids in the pool being rather loud.
• Officers responded to 123 calls.

The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office reports from Friday included the following:

• Deputies responded to the area of Valley Center Road and Jackrabbit Lane to a report of a cow on the road. Deputies could not locate the cow.
• Two 12-year-old boys were shooting pellet guns unsupervised on a Mountain Splendor Drive property.
• A deputy warned a woman selling things door to door for disorderly conduct for not leaving a home when she was asked to.
• A deputy checked on a motorist who had his flashers on. The man had accidentally put diesel fuel in a gasoline engine, causing it to run poorly.
• Deputies responded to 114 calls.

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The Bozeman Police Department reports for Saturday included the following:

• Officers checked on a suspicious “ninja motorcycle” at 6 a.m. on Grand Avenue.
• Officers received a call from a pay phone stating that tire shop employees were wearing Superman capes and harassing customers.

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The Bozeman Police Department reports for Wednesday included the following:

• A suspicious vehicle parked in a lot at 2:40 a.m. was a man sitting in a running car, waiting for his wife to finish work.
• A person called in to say a tent was flying across the street.
• A man said someone took his car, backed it across the street, hit another vehicle, then returned it to his driveway.
• An intoxicated man who hugged a woman’s dog also fell into someone’s car and broke off the mirror. The caller thought he was having a stroke, but he was just really intoxicated and laughing while lying on the ground. He was given a ride home.
• A man who said he’s been letting his girlfriend drive his vehicle reported that she took it to Billings, even though she wasn’t allowed to do that.

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The Bozeman Police Department reports for Thursday included the following:

• An officer warned a man for chasing another man with a construction cone.
• “Music makers” were asked to perform at a different location at the request of the owner of the business they were playing in front of.
• A caller wanted to know if the police had picked up her belongings that she had left at a rest stop for three days.
• A snowboard found in a bush on Lincoln Street was turned in.

The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office reports for Thursday included the following:

• A caller said his neighbors’ goats were climbing over a fence and eating his plants.
• A horse was going back and forth across Gallatin Road.
• A woman reported that she sensed that someone had been in, or was currently in, her home. Deputies searched the home and found no signs of trespass.
• Deputies responded to 98 calls.

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The Bozeman Police Department reports for Friday included the following:

• An officer moved a mattress out of the road on West Babcock Street
• Two roommates disputed ownership of several kitchen items as one of them moved out. An officer stood by to maintain peace and told them the matter could be taken up in small claims court.
• A 24-year-old was arrested after he crashed into a Dumpster on South 19th Avenue and fled, leaving parts of his car behind.

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The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office reports for Monday included the following:

• A woman let her friend’s dad watch her dog. She said they never agreed on a price and now he is refusing to return her dog unless she pays him $700.

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The Bozeman Police Department reports for Tuesday included the following:

• A man reported that a large orange cat with a collar comes onto his property at night and is ruining his flowerbeds.
• A caller had a duckling in a box and wanted to know what to do with it.
• A caller had questions about shooting arrows and slingshots in residential areas.

The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office reports for Tuesday included the following:

• A caller reported finding a “friendly” dog that looked like a wolf on Redwood Drive.
• Five llamas appeared in a woman’s Moffit Gulch Road yard. They were “content at the moment” and eating grass. She didn’t know what to do with them.
• A caller reported a man walking around Tulip Avenue with a clipboard because the caller thought it was too late for solicitors.
• “Tons” of beer cans were all over Durston Road.