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.

Hungry bears seem to have about taken over the town this month as this latest batch of police reports has a new record 11 bear sightings (at least, since I started keeping track) along with one report of a “bear carcass” that failed to make the final cut below. It would seem that bears’ “hyperphagia” stage is about to come to an end and, so far, these creatures have not interacted with the other group in town that regularly shows up in the police reports – late night drunks. Maybe next week…

• A mother bear and cubs were wandering around South Willson Avenue at 1:04 a.m.
• A man staggering eastbound on Huffine Lane was given a ride home at 4:26 a.m.
• A black bear was seen walking northbound near East Dickerson Street at 4:30 p.m.
• A drunken man kicked in a Sheridan Avenue man’s screen door, punched him in the mouth and then laid down on his lawn at 1:06 a.m. Police gave the drunken man a ride home. The resident declined to press charges.
• A black bear was seen “just chilling on the porch” in the area of South Sixth Avenue and West Alderson Street at 8:06 p.m.
• An intimidating older man in a Remington Way downstairs apartment was given a warning after blaring music at 12:31 a.m.

• A bear was sighted near the intersection of Arthur Street and South Willson Avenue heading southbound at 5:51 a.m.
• A drunken man with a gray beard, mustache and square-shaped glasses was stumbling in a ditch between Astor Avenue and Bolinger Road west of Belgrade at 5:02 p.m.
• A bear and a couple cubs were in a tree near South Fourth Avenue and West Alderson Street at 7:49 p.m.
• A man said a small, red, heavy-duty truck full of cocaine was heading west near Churchill and Norris roads at 1:16 a.m. The man said he studies MapQuest maps and God gives him visions. He also said he was in a mental hospital for 15 years and was shocked 11 times for schizophrenia.
• A large bear crossed the street near the intersection of Haggerty Lane and East Main Street heading north at 10:29 p.m.
• An intoxicated man was warned for lying in a roundabout and stumbling into the roadway at 3:40 p.m.
• A black bear was seen looking for apples in an alley at 7:12 p.m. in the 600 block of South Black Avenue.
• An older man was following a North Fifth Avenue woman’s grandmother and making lewd gestures at her.
• At 5 a.m. a man called to report that a bear had gotten into his garbage and was now in his yard on Rouse Avenue.
• A woman armed with a mop had her husband call police after confronting a man who mistakenly thought their Grand Avenue home was his at 3:40 a.m. The couple had watched the man try to enter a vehicle across the street, and when he could not, he came to their house and began ringing the doorbell. The man was taken to his proper residence by officers.
• A large black bear was seen in the driveway of a home on Fifth Avenue at 7:45 a.m. The resident of the home said they walked outside and the bear growled at him. Bear traps were the put out and the bear was captured.
• A bear in a West Kagy Boulevard backyard was “just hanging out, not doing anything out of the normal.”
• A North 22nd Avenue woman playfully hit her boyfriend in the face with her bra when they woke up. Her boyfriend got upset and pushed her into the wall numerous times. The woman slapped him and left.
• A bear eating chicken feed in a barn on Big Gulch Drive refused to leave, despite the homeowners lighting fireworks and yelling at it. The bear “just looks at them,” they told a dispatcher.