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Pot in his car? Well, er, maybe
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Just before 3 a.m. an officer was dispatched to a suspicious car on Pinion Lane. He saw two men in the car and spoke to the driver. The officer noted the driver’s appearance as “nervous.” The officer asked him why. The officer also asked the man if there was anything in the car that he, the officer should know about.
The man said, “There may be some marijuana in the car.” He really didn’t want to commit but “maybe” under those circumstances means, “Yes, there is pot in the car and I want you to note my honesty here.”
The officer found a bag of pot between the front seats and a joint under the passenger’s seat. He asked the driver how the pot got to be between the seats and the driver told him he didn’t know. The passenger said he didn’t know, either. The two men were charged with possession of marijuana and released on a copy of charges.
Tales of marijuana, Part 2
An officer saw several men hanging around a known drug area on Dunwoody Place. The officer went around the block and when he returned, one man remained. The man saw the officer and got into the back seat. The officer asked the driver whether he knew the guy in the back seat.
The man said he did not know him; that he had just gotten in the car and asked for a ride. The officer told the suspect to get out of the back seat. He did so, but not before reaching into his pocket and taking a plastic bag (marijuana) and tossing it under the driver’s seat of the car — a place he believed to be magical and invisible.
As you know, we adults, when we really screw up, attempt to find this mythical place. To his amazement, the officer recovered the marijuana and locked him up.
Her story has no leg to stand on
A man was at the Roswell Road bank, using the ATM machine. He said a woman inched her car up to the point of striking him in the leg.
The man punched a hole in the woman’s windshield. The officer got a different story from the motorist, who said the man, for no reason, punched a hole in her windshield.
Two witnesses said the woman appeared to become impatient and then inched her car up to the point of hitting the man’s leg. The man sustained minor injuries. The driver was charged with battery and criminal damage to property.
This report is a good example showing that people, now more than ever, have a short fuse. Little things quickly turn into big things. Keep that in mind in your day-to-day interaction with these human beings.
Other things
— Witnesses driving on Ga. 400 near Abernathy Road saw a motorcyclist pass them at a high rate of speed. While the man was showing off doing wheelies, he lost control and hit the median wall. The man was taken to Grady and the pieces of his uninsured motorcycle were impounded.
— After closing time, an officer was in the process of clearing the parking lot of a Roswell Road club. One of the patrons ignored repeated requests to leave and decided to hang around and talk to some folks in a car. The officer arrested the man for disorderly conduct. Try to remember that the officers working the clubs get to go home after you leave. Here’s the formula. If you take more time leaving the club and parking lot than it does for the officer to write an arrest report, you’re in trouble. Go home. You’ve had all night to get your lame pick-up act over on the ladies. If you haven’t succeeded by 4 in the morning, then you need to go get a waffle and call it a night.
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By Stephen
September 8, 2005 2:47 AM | Link to this
I have to agree with Det. Rose… If ya’ll are dragging your feet and you are causing an underpaid officer who not only works his regular job but the extra and he or she wants to get some shuteye before heading back to the regular job, then you are on the way to the jail one way or the other.