I don't know. There doesn't seem to be much news this morning. I'm reading The Daily Interlake police report and feeling vaguely encouraged.
September 20, 2021
"A man in his 50s with red hair and a beard allegedly approached another man to ask him if he wanted to help him 'take people.'"
"The man called the Kalispell Police Department to report the redhead who didn’t give any other specifics.
A very intoxicated man seen lying on the ground reportedly turned down a bartender’s offer to call him a cab after they closed up for the night. The man did not want help from law enforcement either.... A white car containing a dog had reportedly been parked near garbage cans for two days and someone claimed they didn’t see the dog let out once.... Someone asked officers to check on the welfare of a teenage hitchhiker they picked up on the bypass and dropped off at a bike path. They said he was on a skateboard and was trying to get to Lakeside. Officers made contact with the skateboarder who was OK."
I don't know. There doesn't seem to be much news this morning. I'm reading The Daily Interlake police report and feeling vaguely encouraged.
I don't know. There doesn't seem to be much news this morning. I'm reading The Daily Interlake police report and feeling vaguely encouraged.
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@Althouse, Dave Barry’s blog already does Kalispell from time to time. He’s pretty formidable competition, so you might want to stay in your lane. Just a suggestion.
Confusingly, our Professor said...
There doesn't seem to be much news this morning.
And yet, in Kalispell Montana...
A man left his car unlocked and someone reportedly went through the glove box but nothing appeared missing or damaged.
OMG! OMMFGDMFGDG! WHAT is going on in the world, when people in Montana can't leave their cars unlocked, and Not have people go through their glove boxes;not taking or damaging anything, but Still!
A woman’s boyfriend allegedly went on a “bender” after getting out of the intensive care unit and was screaming and yelling at her and her child and she wanted police assistance in getting him to leave.
Is it BAD of me, to assume that i'm familiar enough with Kalispell, to be assume that i am able to assume what Nationality this boyfriend is?
My small town newspaper when I was a kid (it failed as a going business last year) published a Police Blotter twice a week. Most of the items were on the order of "suspicious activity reported in the 700 block of North Morgan". They really have it going on in Kalispell!
"@Althouse, Dave Barry’s blog already does Kalispell from time to time. He’s pretty formidable competition, so you might want to stay in your lane. Just a suggestion."
I used to blog this site years ago. It was a regular stop for me, and I consider it mine. I discovered it while traveling in the area, visiting Glacier National Park. Not something I took from Barry!
"A white Dodge Dakota reportedly blew through a stop sign while speeding."
Who knew those trucks were so small, and the winds so strong.
Big Mike said...
@Althouse, Dave Barry’s blog already does Kalispell from time to time.
He does the Flathead Beacon ("You know the county"), "Flathead County Sheriff’s and Kalispell Police Reports", and blogged the 2:30pm incident the other day.
@Althouse, Barry got it from you??? The nerve.
I don’t want to detract from the post, but there is a lot of big news that the media doesn’t want to cover. This reminds me of a previous September.
“OMG! OMMFGDMFGDG! WHAT is going on in the world, when people in Montana can't leave their cars unlocked, and Not have people go through their glove boxes;not taking or damaging anything, but Still”
It is a problem. I don’t tend to lock my vehicles when we are living in NW MT. Or didn’t. My partner has a vice or two, and one of them is drinking a little vodka. We have a quasi deal, where I provide her with two vodka shooters a night. I used to leave them either in one of the (unlocked) vehicles, or in the garage. I buy in bulk, because, esp when we are living in Phoenix, I have a hard time finding them. Here in MT, I buy maybe 5 sleeves (5x10=50) at a time, and that lasts 3 weeks or so. Or did, until this summer. They started disappearing maybe 5 a night. Moved them to the garage, and the disappearance continued. Moved them into the garage. The disappearances continued. After awhile, I went to the town hall, and talked to the chief of police there. Turns out, we often don’t have police coverage from 2-6 am, except maybe weekends. I suspect that a local teenager (who obviously doesn’t live in the subdivision, since the youngest here is maybe my partner in her early 60s) was floating through the neighborhood early mornings after the police quit policing for the night, and opportunistically grabbing a handful of the vodkas. And at one point stole one of our garage door openers. This went on for a month or two, and then I started locking the Tahoe and Audi in the driveway, as well as the garage door openers. Problem disappeared. Pickup at my new garage next door remains unlocked, with the keys on the console. And I still don’t lock the vehicles when out and about anywhere in this county (but do when we go to Kallispell, Missoula, and esp Spokane). And then I have to retrain myself to lock our vehicles when we go south to Phoenix for half the year.
"A man in his 50s with red hair and a beard allegedly approached another man to ask him if he wanted to help him 'take people.'"
That's basically how Uber got started.
There's that word 'allegedly"! I thought it had been struck from the style manuals. I guess they just forbid its use when writing about J6. That must be an awful interesting style manual, if it were ever publicly available.
We live in a condo property: townhouse units in three buildings, a parking lot. The other night for the first time since the property opened three years ago, some cars were rifled--presumably the ones that were found to be unlocked. Some gift cards for a supermarket were taken, and the lady who owns the car says on WhatsApp that she keeps such cards to give them to the homeless. Possibly mission accomplished. One guy had about $300 in cash in the console of his truck, but only a few coins were stolen. A number of valuable items were untouched. Of course it might have been teenagers looking for a little trouble, but it has the feel of the homeless person or drunk in a small town looking for change, hoping not to do any real harm.
One of my favourite memories of living in Northfield, MN (a two-college town) for six years. The local paper reports a car stolen from a "downtown" street. Correction, there was no theft. Two owners of identical vehicles had each left the vehicle unlocked, key in the ignition. One owner had said to a friend: go ahead pick up my car and use it. The friend mistakenly drove away in the wrong car.
They just want you to believe everything is going good while they steal your freedom away one covid requirement after another. If you're not paranoid, you're not paying attention.
The Missoulian could use a column like this. Instead they hardly ever run the police blotter anymore, crime has gotten so bad with all the meth and fent and the usual vandalism and break-ins. Every freaking day something crazy happens.
So the TV and radio stations have picked up the slack. Every day is like Florida Man now.
It's all got to be related somehow...
"I don't know. There doesn't seem to be much news this morning."
Not sure I agree. The woman on the rock off the island in Croatia sounds HUGE.
I especially like how they didn't find her in Croatia. No, and they didn't even find her on an island in Croatia. No, they found her on a rock off an island in Croatia. The location makes it all sound very odd and exotic.
I’m only concerned about the dog in the car.
Bruce I'm glad you and your parter found acceptance in Monatana. Someone told me it was homophobic, but I think parts of it are quite liberal.
Kalispell…many a family reunion there on my dad’s side. Grandma and a lot of cousins up there. Worst hangover of my life from “doing the trap line”, which involves a visit to all the bars on the route between Glacier and Kalispell.
I’ve noticed here in Door County, WI that it’s fairly common to leave the car running as you run into post office, coffee shop, etc. I’m assuming come winter I’ll be doing same.
So much depends upon a white car
With a dog
Beside the garbage cans.
“The Missoulian could use a column like this. Instead they hardly ever run the police blotter anymore, crime has gotten so bad with all the meth and fent and the usual vandalism and break-ins. Every freaking day something crazy happens.”
You are forgetting the frigging liberals you have in Missoula. East side around the campus is bad these days. The Albertson’s on Broadway, just NE across the river from the University, is where I got into the masking shouting match in April. Only place enforcing masking in our trip up, through AZ, NM, CO, WY, and MT doing so, and doing so obnoxiously.
Then again, Liberty Safes of MT is just east of there. Next exit on I-90. Bought one about a week about two weeks ago, and had it delivered last week. Big enough that I wanted it located by the back corner of my new garage before it gets framed in this winter. Almost a thousand pounds. Now I need to buy stuff to fill it up.
Kalispell's the kind of place where a bar sign might say: Get Drunk and Be Somebody.
Up the road you get Whitefish: tiny and tony at the foot of a ski slope.
The demonization of the gingers is pervasive in our society. Do you think the paper would have commented on the alleged conspirator's hair color if it had been brunette or blonde. I think not. I would have expected better from the good people of Montana, but I guess critical hair theory hasn't reached that part of the world....... Whenever a ginger saves a child from drowning, that's never part of the story, but let a ginger take one step out of line, that's the first thing they mention.
Bruce Hayden said...
It is a problem. I don’t tend to lock my vehicles when we are living in NW MT. Or didn’t. My partner has a vice or two, and one of them is drinking a little vodka
I hadn't thought about looking for booze! i'd thought... No one leaves their car guns in the glove compartments anymore.. Do they?
But BOOZE! Sure! Who Doesn't leave spare booze in their glove compartments? Worth a check see
"There doesn't seem to be much news this morning."
"There doesn't seem to be much coverage of the news in the media I frequent," might be a better take.
Last Friday afternoon was a rough time for the current administration.
Sounds a bit like the Carmel Pine Cone's police blotter. Full of unbelievable trivialities, but also weirdnesses that it's hard to imagine outside a very rich seaside town in CA.
My husband and I both used to play in the Carmel Bach Festival. One year the choir, for the "Best of the Fest" finale, took portions of the last five weeks' police blotters and set them to the formula of an Anglican responsorial psalm -- basically a few harmonized notes up to a reciting chord, and then a few notes back down to cadence. (A variety of fauxbordon, if anyone here knows the word.) I remember particularly the one about three poodles observed walking down one of the few major streets in town. It ended (as so many police-blotter items did) "Unable to locate."
“ I hadn't thought about looking for booze! i'd thought... No one leaves their car guns in the glove compartments anymore.. Do they?
But BOOZE! Sure! Who Doesn't leave spare booze in their glove compartments? Worth a check see”
There was a gun in the console, at least early on. But the kid wasn’t stupid enough to steal that. Stealing a gun is a big thing. Usually a felony. And the sort of thing that cops and the ATF like tracking. If you have a gun stolen, you need to report it to the authorities (Sheriff’s Dept here in rural MT) ASAP. Then, if it is ever used in a crime, and recovered, you won’t be tagged for it. Instead, they will try to trace it back to who stole it.
“@Althouse, Barry got it from you??? The nerve.”
I started in 2012. When did he start?
“ "There doesn't seem to be much coverage of the news in the media I frequent," might be a better take.”
My word “seem” took care of all that.
I think pithiness is better.
Here’s the first time I blogged that Montana column:
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/08/two-young-girls-were-driven-home-after.html
You can see how humorously it’s written. Doesn’t need a mediator to inject the humor. It’s in the original.
This is the sort of Society pages we have here, in Fayette county
On July 14th, 2021, at approximately 8:34 p.m. Fayette County Deputies attempted to serve a court order on an inmate being housed in the Fayette County Jail. While attempting service, 38 year old Erica Jo Slack of Tripoli refused to follow deputy or jail staff commands and assaulted the officer. Slack was arrested and charged with interference with official acts (simple misdemeanor) and held at the Fayette County Jail pending initial appearance with a magistrate.
I was Really impressed with
a) serving a court order on Erica; WHILE she was Already IN the Fayette County Jail
b) that, WHILE Already IN Jail, Erica resisted arrest, AND assaulted a Police officer
So, i did some digging, and found THIS from two days earlier
On July 12th, at approximately 00:41 hours, the Fayette Police Department received a call of a robbery at The Pumper Gas Station. The report was a woman came in and took product off the shelves and would not stop for the clerk, got into their vehicle, and left. A description of the vehicle and person was obtained. Shortly after, the vehicle was located on Highway 150 pulled off on the side of the road. When the officer made contact and identified the same description of the woman in the robbery, the vehicle then fled the scene and a pursuit was initiated. The vehicle was pursued into West Union and then back to Fayette along Highway 150. The Vehicle was disabled by Stop-Sticks and the suspect was apprehended without incident.
Erica Slack (38) of Tripoli was charged with Theft, Eluding, and Interference with Official Acts. She was transported to the Fayette County Jail to await an appearance with a magistrate. A Fayette Police Vehicle sustained minor damage during the pursuit. The Fayette Police Department was assisted by the Fayette County Sheriff's Office and the West Union, Iowa Police Department. No injuries were sustained in the incident.
I assume that the "Extra Service" came about, when they decided to charge her with the damage to the Fayette Police Vehicle (which, i Assume, ran over the stop-sticks with her)
The Coolest thing is:
Tripoli (where Erica lives) is due west of Fayette, and West Union is Due North
So, apparently, when she got up here, she realized she was NOT going the right way; and turned around, and ran BACK to Fayette
Red-bearded man wanting to "take people"?
That could explain why "Groundskeeper Willie" always went around with a shovel.
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