The Best of the Bozeman Police Reports

Culled from the Police Reports page of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle come the best of the Bozeman police reports from the last week along with some items from the Sheriff's Office.

They must be on vacation – either at the police station or at the newspaper – because this is, by far, the worst batch of police reports since this was made a regular Saturday item about six months ago. I find it hard to believe that, after all that has appeared in these police reports in recent months, this is all that was happening around here in the middle of the summer, when both humans and animals seem to be running wild. Hopefully, whoever is on vacation this week will soon return…

• Two goats were in a woman's yard.
• A man was holding a sign outside Walmart that read, “Why lie, I'm looking for a joint.”
• A woman thought her neighbor was shooting birds because she heard a sound like a gunshot and saw a dead bird in her yard. Her neighbor was actually clapping wood together to scare off the birds.
• A man wearing a Pink Floyd T-shirt with a red dog was yelling at passersby and standing in the street at 5 p.m.
• A woman accidentally shot her boyfriend in the leg with a pellet gun.

• Someone walked up to a door of a house on Allison Court at 1:30 a.m. and tried to open the door. When they couldn't open the door, they left.
• Two women in “nasty swimsuits” were trying to get into a bar on North Rouse Avenue just after midnight. The caller, an employee, called the women “zombies.” She said the women were “scantily clad and not welcome at the business.” Police arrested one of the women on a warrant.
• A woman was suspicious of a mail carrier who came up to her and looked at her. He also was taking newspapers from porches, she said.
• A property owner reported transients kept camping in the backyard. They've been told to leave several times, but they always come back, the owner said.
• A man reported someone had slanted his solar panel in a different direction.
• A person dressed in all black was reportedly skateboarding on the interstate around 3 a.m.
• A bear was in a tree on the Gallagator Trail around 8 p.m.
• A large pile of Styrofoam peanuts, “larger than the size of a car,” were on the side of the roadway at Greek Creek Campground. The caller was worried the wind would blow them into the river.
• A caller saw his cat sitting in the window of a neighbor's home upon returning home around 2 p.m. The cat was outside when the man left home.
• A man called a woman to get drugs. He had the wrong number. He was “obscene” to the woman.
• Cows were on Round Mountain Road.
• A woman on River Rock Road arrived home and found her 16-year-old daughter and her friends drinking alcohol.