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Employing his car horn rather than a boombox blasting Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes,” an ex-boyfriend showed up at his former flame’s home looking to speak with her.

A job seeker’s bad experience en route to an interview at a local business prompted a phone call to the Kalispell Police Department. Officers listened while he described what he considered a rude encounter and gave him some advice going forward.

Putting a new phone through its paces, a resident decided to make sure it could contact first responders presumably in the event of an emergency. Dispatchers confirmed that the phone had, indeed, successfully called 911.

The unhappy owner of a new cat phoned the Columbia Falls Police Department with concerns the feline was unwell. She told officers she had called several area veterinarians after getting the calico cat from a neighbor and each had encouraged her to contact the authorities before they would do anything.

Taking the adage “sleep with one eye open” to heart earned a motorist a police response. A passerby summoned officers with the Kalispell Police Department to the vehicle, telling dispatchers that they had walked by a dirty tan car with a man either passed out or dead inside.

A juvenile took a matter-of-fact approach to explaining her absence from school to officers with the Columbia Falls Police Department, shrugging and telling them she didn’t want to be there. Authorities tracked down the girl at the behest of her mother, who told officers she should have been in a classroom when she was instead last seen at a local laundromat. After counseling the girl on her behavior, officers turned her over to her uncle.

A man allegedly sent a woman $300 in gift cards after she threatened to send photos he sent her to “church people and family.”

The Whitefish Police Department responded to a report of a dark blue pickup allegedly ramming a two-door car.

A pair of callers, frustrated with a local man’s penchant for going on booze cruises, phoned the Columbia Falls Police Department looking for an intervention of sorts. The first said that the man arrived at an area bar already drunk and likely drove there.

The Columbia Falls Police Department was tasked with tracking down a posse of clowns after a caller reported seeing a troupe of jesters armed with baseball bats.