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.

Multiple reports of hissing bears highlight this week’s reports along with the usual alcohol related entries and flipping off incidents. As the ursines go on their fall eating binge in advance of a long winter sleep, look for bear sightings to rise sharply since, as the eating accelerates, they’ll be tooling around Main Street in about a month looking for food, hopefully during the wee hours on the weekend to help settle the drunken late-night crowd. By the way, does anyone know what “huffing” cans of “spray duster” means?

• A person on Valley Center Road reported a wrench stolen sometime in the past year.
• A man in a blue Town and Country minivan drove around Summer Ridge Road at 2:40 p.m. handing out tissues.
• A South 16th Avenue man wanted to retrieve his gun that was confiscated by an officer. He couldn’t remember which officer took it or why.
• A man arrested on East Main Street for disorderly conduct and assault was also charged with criminal mischief after spitting and urinating on the floors and walls of the jail.
• An aggressive black bear was hissing and snapping at a man along Little Coyote Road. The bear wouldn’t let him pass and he had to drive across the yard to get in his house.
• A caller wanted to talk with an officer to find out whether it’s illegal to lie to someone about having Hepatitis C before having intercourse with them.

• A suspected large party on Typha Court turned out to be a birthday party hosted by a Christian youth group. It was neither loud nor large.
• A group of several loud men on South Fifth Avenue was advised at 3:35 a.m. to go home and stop making noise.
• Someone entered a woman’s house on North 10th Avenue, took her wallet and emptied the contents onto her driveway.
• A man was seen defecating on the trail next to the Sunset Hills Cemetery off Highland Boulevard at 8:10 a.m. He was asked to clean up after himself but the man, who wore a backpack and a flannel shirt, did not.
• A bearded man huffed four cans of spray duster before lying on the ground near the southeast corner of Oak Street.
• A 38-year-old Cherry Avenue man had been “drinking for months” and was concerned he had alcohol poisoning.
• A man flagged down police at 1 a.m. on Main Street to tell them that he had been chased by a group of six people. He said he was uninjured and was going home. Later that morning the same man flagged down another officer and changed his story, telling the officer that one of the men in the group attacked him with a hammer.
• A caller reported that a person kicked a horse with pointed boots and tied the horse’s legs together, causing the horse to have serious rope burns.
• A Steamboat Trail man got home after work to discover all his furniture gone.
• A red truck cut in front of another vehicle on West Main Street. The truck’s driver flipped off the car behind him.
• A drunken man fell down some steps on Haggerty Lane and landed on his dog.
• Two German shepherds were running loose on Foster Lane. A caller said the two dogs have attacked other dogs and have been an ongoing problem in the area. The caller also said the dogs “only speak German, and most neighbors know better than to try to capture them.”
• A bear broke through a window screen of a home at 10:20 p.m. on Sandhill Road and was “hissing” at the occupants. The residents said they had left garbage out earlier in the week and the bear had gotten into it.
• A man listening to loud music in his idling truck on Yerger Drive appeared “to be on something” and turned his music up when a woman asked that he turn it down. He then began yelling obscenities.
• A group of young people in a brown Chevrolet Cavalier flipped off another driver on Spooner Road.