A Peak into Life in Montana

As in most newspapers in most towns, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle has a crime report section. The first time some of these said crimes were read aloud to me, I had to double check and make sure they weren't a joke. Normally crime is no laughing matter, but it is so sparse out here in the mountains, that in order to fill up space the reports that are printed consist of the most hysterical, inconsequential crimes I've ever heard. Here's a few examples from May 25, 2012:

• A man who was stopped by officers called to say they still had his ID and he’d like to get it back.
• A man pounded on a woman’s door saying he had a pizza delivery. But she said she did not order any pizza.
• A woman walked into another woman’s apartment. When she was told to leave, the woman said she wouldn’t leave unless the other woman said please. She then left, slamming the door on the way out.
• A man received a call from a person claiming to be an employee of a local hotel requesting personal information. The caller gave out his name, address and phone number but refused to give his credit card number.