The wife of a farmer called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to report her husband had been knocked off his tractor by snow coming from a snowplow on the North Fork Road in Columbia Falls. The tractor left the road when the farmer was forced off the vehicle. The plow driver reportedly didn’t stop to check on the man, which aggravated the situation even further.

Two men were shooting at bald eagles in the Stillwater Wildlife Reserve, according to the reporting party, before driving off. He saw the birds flying but was unsure if they had been hit. Bald eagles are the national bird and are a protected species.

As the story goes, a man was trying to plow a path with his vehicle in the West Valley, got stuck, got drunk, then said he wanted to kill himself. The person calling in about the man had a drink with him and tried to calm him down. Apparently the first man had been having some personal issues, and getting stuck in the snow was the last straw. The kind conversation may have worked to defuse the situation because there was no bad outcome reported except for the plow still being stuck.

A power outage was reported about 6 p.m. that affected more than 1,450 Flathead Electric customers east of Kalispell.

The Kalispell Police Department took a call from a First Avenue West business reporting a stocky man who was trying to pick fights. He had been asked multiple times to leave and kept refusing. One of the business’s managers gave him a ride home.

A man was lying under a woman’s car, claiming she had broken his legs by running him over with her vehicle. The man was the woman’s ex-boyfriend and kept trying to get into her vehicle. He walked away, and police investigation confirmed that no one had run the man over.

A caller complained about a group of homeless people setting up a “shanty town” near a creek off Foys Lake Road.

The Whitefish Police Department was called about a group of hooligans on Baker Avenue chucking snowballs and pieces of ice at cars. Officers found the young men, but no damage was done so they were told to scram.

A Glenwood Road man called because someone had hit his garage with a car. Officers were investigating a vehicle in an auto shop which had damage possibly matching the damage done to the building. 

The Polson Police Department made an arrest at 2:16 a.m. near Lion Park on U.S. 93 for driving under the influence of alcohol.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office made an arrest at 6:47 a.m. for possession of drug paraphernalia on North Foothills Road.