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. Note that a new book featuring the very best of these police reports is now available from the Chronicle for only $10 – just click on the banner below to find out how to order.

It’s been a few weeks since the last look at the Bozeman police blotter and, with the weather being unusually warm for this time of the year (although we got about four inches of snow last night that should last about a day – go figure!), there are indeed some interesting items to report, highlighted by the very first entry below.

This should serve as a warning to all alcohol impaired drivers that, if you’re going to pass out behind the wheel, try not to have your vehicle moving in the direction of a police car. Also, in the event that others don’t know what “huffing Dust Off” is in the two items about half-way down, Veronica Rohrmoser explains in this video.

• A man was passed out in the driver’s seat of his vehicle on North 19th Avenue at 1:55 a.m. The vehicle rolled into a city patrol car. The man was arrested for aggravated driving under the influence.
• A woman asked deputies to check on her husband. He was supposed to pick her up from the airport two hours earlier, but he didn’t show. She couldn’t reach him on his cellphone. When deputies arrived at his house, he had just woken up and realized he was late to pick her up.
• A woman was driving around a subdivision very slowly, stopping and looking at every home. The driver was also stopping and looking at young kids on their bikes.
• A man was found passed out in Catherine Lane Interiors under some sheets the store had on the floor.
• A caller reported seeing a driver on a cellphone. The caller was also on a cellphone.

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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. Note that a new book featuring the very best of these police reports is now available from the Chronicle for only $10 – just click on the banner below to find out how to order.

I suppose that these police reports are something I should really try to keep up on here at this blog as they offer a nice, short distraction from what I’m usually working on over at the new blog on Saturdays. It’s been about  month since the last batch and, while the items below contain the usual alcohol related incidents, there are also an interesting set of reports about people who, presumably, were sober.

• A woman complained that there were at least eight kids unsupervised in her neighbor’s backyard on Brentwood Avenue. She said her neighbor ran an unlicensed daycare. An investigation revealed the neighbor was having a play date with four mothers present.
• A man called Jo-Ann Fabrics and told an employee he was groping himself.
• A caller had questions about a towing company. The woman thought the company was “shady” because the driver wouldn’t come to the door until she had $150 in hand.
• A fifth-grader called wanting to ask an officer five questions for a school report.

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The video below (hat tip ES) provides a fascinating reminder of the world that we live in as the making of Southwest Airlines Florida One by 32 workers over a period of eight days is reduced to a two-and-a-half minute video. It’s fascinating in two respects – first because of building the airplane, and second because anyone can watch how it’s done online.

I know a little bit about manufacturing and what’s truly amazing about all of this is that there are detailed instructions for each and every step of this process. Of course, engineers diddling in their cubicles oftentimes resulted in these detailed instructions getting modified for one reason or another – what we used to call ECOs (Engineering Change Orders) – and these oftentimes drove the people on the production line crazy.

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. Note that a new book featuring the very best of these police reports is now available from the Chronicle for only $10 – just click on the banner below to find out how to order.

Two cases of accidental pepper spraying highlight this week’s police reports that, as usual, are dominated by alcohol related incidents. Since when did law enforcement get involved in youths oversleeping, as was apparently the case in the first item below?

• A boy, who forgot to reset his clock for daylight savings, missed the bus and therefore could not go skiing. He got upset and threw a temper tantrum. A deputy warned him.
• Two women on Stucky Road were fighting over cellphones when one sprayed the other in the face with pepper spray. The women were warned.
• A property owner on Gooch Hill Road reported that a man, who had possibly been drinking, said that he killed a deer with an ax that was stuck in a fence. He had deer hair and blood on his shoes. He was warned by Fish, Wildlife & Parks. He was arrested on warrants from Madison County.
• A man reported his 10-year-old brother accidentally pepper sprayed him while the two were inside a vehicle along Technology Boulevard.
• Someone stole cigarettes and a radio from a car parked on North Willson Avenue but left behind some condoms.

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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. Note that a new book featuring the very best of these police reports is now available from the Chronicle for only $10 – just click on the banner below to find out how to order.

Things appear to be livening up around here now that warmer weather has arrived much earlier in the year than usual – it hit 70 degrees not far from here yesterday whereas, during a normal March, anything in the 40s would be considered a nice warm day. We had our own little “Occupy” protest not long ago as recounted in two reports below – there were five or six people with signs out in front of the Main Street branch of Wells Fargo for a few hours one recent afternoon. Lastly, to those readers with warrants out for their arrest – if you lose your wallet, don’t call the police to report it.

• A woman said she did not want to press charges as a result of damage her son did to her vehicle “but rather wanted it memorialized in case of future conflicts.”
• Occupy Bozeman protesters placed signs on a West Main Street bank’s fences. The bank manager wanted the signs removed.
• A man said an angry cyclist threw his bicycle at him when the man tried to talk after the cyclist struck his vehicle.
• A caller wanted to know if police knew more about an Occupy Bozeman rally scheduled for Wednesday, saying he was afraid to send an armored car into the area.
• A deputy found an extremely intoxicated man sleeping in his car with the radio turned up extremely loud after a resident of North Shore Drive complained about the noise around 12:15 a.m. The man called his mother for a ride home.

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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. Note that a new book featuring the very best of these police reports is now available from the Chronicle for only $10 – just click on the banner below to find out how to order.

It’s become clear to me why the police reports have been relatively dull lately – the lack of snow seems to have had everyone feeling a bit glum, but, their mood (and alcohol consumption) have picked up considerably with the recent snow. There’s still not much snow to speak of in town since, whatever does come down seems to melt within a few days (highly unusual for around here), but the higher elevations have seen four or five feet of new snow in recent weeks and that seems to have put everyone in a friskier mood.

• A woman driving through a West Main Street parking lot was traveling “too fast for conditions” around 7:45 a.m. When preparing to turn right, she saw a plow truck heading in her direction, “panicked” and went over a curb and into a fence. No one was injured.
• An officer spoke with a man whose neighbors complained about him walking around his house naked in the evening without closing his blinds.
• Upon leaving the detention center at 4:30 a.m. an officer observed a vehicle still running and parked in the roundabout outside the jail. A man was found passed out in the passenger seat. Officers discovered this was the same man they had ticketed for drinking underage earlier in the evening. He had been driven to the jail to bail out a friend by another female friend, who then left him and her vehicle in the roundabout. She was gone and could not be contacted by phone, so the passenger was given a ride home by the bail bondsman that bailed out his friend. The vehicle was towed.
• Around 12:30 p.m., a woman asked a dispatcher “who this was” and then said, “There ain’t no emergency,” and hung up.
• A somewhat evasive man “kept saying no one needs to respond; that his friend is intoxicated and being dumb but that everything is OK,” after a dispatcher heard a woman yelling and buttons being pushed during a 911 call around 1:30 a.m.

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