POO-POO TO YOU: On Garson Drive, a 29-year-old woman said she left her apartment at 9:05 a.m. to go to work. She said when she opened the front door, she found a bag of dog waste sitting there. She said the bag of dog waste wasn’t there when she came home the night before. She wanted a police report, just in case the dog waste incidents continue in the future.
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PUTTING THE “FREE” IN FRITOS? A man was eating from several bags of chips — and refusing to pay for them — at a convenience store on Forsyth Street. According to the police report: “When an officer arrived, the suspect was sitting in a chair, still eating [one] of the many bags of chips. He then stood up and said, ‘I am ready to go,’ and put his hands behind his back.” The officer asked the man why did he did it. “I want to go to jail. I need a rest,” the man replied. The manager said the man ate about $12 worth of chips and refused to pay — and he did the same thing earlier that day and then came back and did it again. Police charged the 32-year-old man with shoplifting and took him to jail.
CARBONATED REVENGE: A woman said someone poured soda all over her car and left a note, while it was parked at Peachtree Center. The note read: “Dear Asshole, I listened to your piece of shit alarm going off all day yesterday and today and I’m sick and tired of it. Either get it fixed or park somewhere else.” The woman said her car alarm did have a problem.
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PARENT TRAP? An officer responded to a fight call at an apartment on Forrest Park Road. A 35-year-old man said he was inside his apartment when two women kicked in his front door and tried to steal his baby’s clothes from his home. The man said he has two kids with one of the door-kicking women, but they don’t live together. He said he tried to push his kids’ mother out of the apartment, but the two women grabbed a tiki torch near his door and started beating him in the face and arm. He said a third woman — who was inside his apartment — grabbed a gun and told the other two women to leave. He said the two women ran over to his car, a Ford Explorer, and used a cement brick to do more than $1,000 in damages.
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(NOT QUITE) HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS: A 41-year-old man said he rented a U-Haul truck and picked up a man known as “Carwash” on Boulevard. He said Carwash was going to help him move. According to the man, he parked the U-Haul and went inside his apartment, leaving Carwash — and the car keys — in the U-Haul, which was running. As he walked back outside, he reportedly saw Carwash driving away in the U-Haul. The man doesn’t know Carwash’s real name. The U-Haul truck was reported stolen.
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SANTA’S SNACKTIME? A 22-year-old woman said she returned from a weekend getaway and realized someone had been inside her apartment on New Town Circle. The suspect(s) reportedly broke a rear window to get inside. “It appears that they sat on [the woman's] couch and ate several of her Hot Pockets and Chips Ahoy cookies,” an officer wrote. According to the police report, 12 cheese Hot Pockets were gone, along with five packs of Chips Ahoy cookies. Nothing else was reported stolen.
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WEIRD WEB: A woman said she got into an argument with her ex-boyfriend, nicknamed “Spiderman.” She said her ex-boyfriend got mad because she wouldn’t give him any more of her pain pills. She said he pushed her out of her wheelchair, twisted her arm, and slapped her face. The incident reportedly happened in a parking lot on Decatur Street. Apparently, her ex-boyfriend fled before police arrived. She said “Spiderman” wore a black shirt and dark-colored jeans with spider designs. (He is 30 years old.) Medics took her to Grady Memorial Hospital.
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PLEASED TO MEAT YOU: At a grocery store on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, an employee said a man put several sausages in his handbag. Police searched the 57-year-old man and allegedly found 11 smoked sausages (worth $40). He was arrested for shoplifting.
Also, at a grocery store on Metropolitan Parkway, the manager said a man dressed entirely in black put several packages of sliced ham into his bag and tried to leave the store. Police allegedly found $13 worth of Carolina ham in his bag. He was arrested for shoplifting.
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HAUNTED HEAD? At a cell phone store on Peachtree Street, the manager called police and said a strange man refused to leave and demanded a replacement phone, but he had no ID. Police officers found the man down the street. The man “apologized and thanked us several times, but continued to back away,” the officer wrote. Police eventually caught him and pepper-sprayed him. “As we were trying to apply restraints [the man] tried to bite our hands …” an officer wrote. “[The man] made several rambling statements about being a minister, playing for the Cowboys, being friends with [Dallas Cowboys quarterback] Tony Romo, and stated he was going to bring us lobsters.” Police found three small baggies of suspected marijuana in his pockets. The man, age 22, went to jail.
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THE SKY IS FALLING: At Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, a California man said he was looking at an arrival/departure screen on Concourse B, when something struck him in the forehead. An officer investigated and determined that the object that hit the man was a small, white, round object. It apparently fell from a light fixture above him. The man complained of a forehead injury and medics treated him. He refused to go to a hospital because he had a flight to catch.
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PET PEEVES: An officer responded to a 911 hang-up call on Woodland Avenue. A man said when he returned to his apartment around 3 a.m., his door was unlocked and someone had been inside. He said his red parrots were outside his front door, and someone had opened the birdcage, allowing the red parrots to go free. But nothing was missing from his apartment, he said. The man, age 40, smelled strongly of alcohol, the officer noted.
Later the same day, another officer responded to a call from the same apartment on Woodland Avenue. The 40-year-old man said when he returned to his apartment later, his tank of pet fish had been thrown on the ground. (Five pet fish were dead, the officer noted.). Also, the man said, another birdcage was broken, releasing two finch birds inside. (The finches apparently flew away, according to the police report.) The man kept his fish tank and birdcages on his patio. The man said he suspects the owners of his apartment complex are trying to intimidate him — because he reported dangerous mold at his former apartment complex, which is owned by the same company.
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THE INCARCERATION OF MIMI: Police got a tip that a woman with the street name “Mimi” might be selling drugs from a motel room on Metropolitan Parkway. So police went to the motel room and knocked on the door. A woman opened the door, and she was holding a suspected crack pipe in one hand and a vibrator in the other hand, an officer noted. The woman “was naked except for a bra.” The officer asked if she was Mimi and she said yes. The officer asked her to hand over the suspected crack pipe. Apparently, Mimi tried to slam the door, but the officer stuck his foot in the door before it closed. After police searched the motel room, Mimi allegedly admitted she had bought $100 worth of crack earlier that day and sold some of it because she ran out of money. According to the police report, Mimi is a 31-year-old prostitute with a scar on her forehead. She was arrested for drug possession.
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RIVERDANCE REJECT? Around 4 p.m., a middle-aged man was allegedly waving a wooden cross at passing cars at the intersection of Freedom Parkway and Boulevard. Police ordered him to leave. So he left. Apparently, this wannabe performer was not to be stifled. About three hours later, the man returned to the same spot but this time, he allegedly danced and made gestures at passing cars. This time, police arrested the 49-year-old man for disorderly conduct and “pedestrian in the roadway.”
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DETERMINED BOOZE HOUND: At a nightclub on Alco Street, the manager said someone knocked a hole in the roof, dropped down through the hole and stole $4,200 worth of alcohol during the night. “It appeared the suspects used a cinder block, knife, fiberglass-handled hammer (this item broke during the incident) to knock the hole in the roof,” the officer wrote. “Once down on the ground, the suspects stole a trash can from the business next door to carry away the alcohol.” Some tools were found in another trash can. The nightclub does not have a surveillance system or an alarm. But apparently, the Waffle House across the street has a surveillance camera pointed at the nightclub. The Waffle House manager said he would have to contact the main office to pull the video.
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PARTY GIRL: An officer dealt with a 23-year-old woman passed out in the back of a car at Collier and Peachtree roads. The woman’s friend said they had been drinking at a concert venue on West Peachtree Street and at some point, the 23-year-old woman got very sick, so they called a friend to pick them up. On the way home, the 23-year-old woman reportedly vomited and defecated on herself, so her friend stopped at a gas station to check on her and call for help. Medics took her to Piedmont Hospital.
Later, the officer followed up with Piedmont Hospital. The officer said he talked to the 23-year-old woman’s father, who said she was OK now and she had been sick before going out drinking. She was awake at the hospital and laughing with friends, according to the police report. No visible injuries reported.
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STORAGE CHEST: Around 9:30 a.m., an officer talked to two women on Pine Street. The officer asked one woman for her name. “When she started speaking, she bent over to fix her shoes and when she did, I could clearly see a clear bag with a lot of suspected crack cocaine between her breast[s],” the officer wrote. The other woman said, “You got my baby’s candy in your shirt,” and reached between the woman’s breasts. “[She] was trying to push the bag down deeper in the woman’s shirt,” the officer wrote. Both women were arrested and taken to jail. Both are age 24.
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“E” AIN’T SO EASY: At an apartment complex on Dixie Hills Circle, a woman apparently had a run-in with a man called “E.” According to the officer’s written report, the woman said he “wanted to conversate [sic] with her about a plant … which she told him she had no interest in.” The woman said “E” got upset, picked up a beer bottle and struck her mouth. She had minor injuries but refused medical treatment. “E” reportedly wore denim shorts, a blue hat and a white T-shirt. And he lives two apartments away from the woman.
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