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Beware of the decoy
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A shopper reported that two men did a decoy while she was at the checkout lane at a Roswell Road grocery store. One man knocked over a pamphlet display, causing a distraction. The second approached her and asked if she haddropped something.
The woman said the first man ran off and the second walked away. When she got home she noticed that her wallet was gone from her purse. The thieves charged $400 to her MasterCard.
And what exactly do you do with this marijuana?
A woman found a change purse on the floor inside a business office. Inside the purse was the license of the owner as well as some marijuana. The complainant called police, who spoke to purse owner. She said the pot was hers.
Sometimes police reports are silly in and of themselves. The next sentence of the report says, “(the officer) pulled the marijuana from the change purse and asked the offender what it was. She replied it was marijuana and it was hers. I then asked her what she does with it. She replied that she smokes it.”
Beer keg and punches fly
The Wright Road victim reported that just before 2:30 a.m. he got into a fight with several other people. He said he was kicked and hit several times before he grabbed a keg of beer and swung it in self-defense. He was taken to the hospital by his sister and treated for bruises and scrapes.
Witnesses reported that the victim was acting belligerently and violently toward several people. This conduct included grabbing people in places that you’re not supposed to grab without expressed written consent, and some keg- and chair-throwing. The other parties to the fight left prior to the arrival of the police.
The mysterious Mr. “T”
A guy walks into a Old Alabama Road bank and produces a check for the amount of $6,755. The teller thought it looked suspicious, so she called police. The officer came and spoke to the customer, who said a “dude” named “T” picked him up to do some tree-branch cleaning up. “T” paid him with the check. The guy asked “T” if the check was stolen and was told no.
The officer called the company name on the check and the representative of the company said this was one of six checks stolen earlier in the day. Our 43-year-old bank customer from Indianapolis was arrested.
Friday mop-up:
— Someone entered the Leeds Garden Lane victim’s home while he was out of town. The offender took a laptop and a bottle of Absolut Vodka. No forced entry.
— A juvenile was charged with shoplifting five packs of Yu-Gi-Oh playing cards from a drug store on Abbotts Bridge Road. He was turned over to his mother. If you want to know more about Yu-Gi-Oh cards, go to www.yugioh.com and read about it. Then call Dr. Phil.
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By Santa
January 13, 2006 8:48 AM | Link to this
Dont you have to be a drunk fat redneck to get into a jimmy buffet show? Or did they loosen the restrictions?
By kahlee
January 13, 2006 12:30 PM | Link to this
Sorry but I dont see anything to be proud about when arresting someone for the possession of marijuana. It should be decriminalized.
By Stephen
January 13, 2006 3:11 PM | Link to this
Some must consider the green leafy stuff to be legal, however currently because it can cause severe impairment of the user that is why it is still a criminal offense to possess it.
By Santa's Drunk and Kahlee is high...
January 13, 2006 7:49 PM | Link to this
Hey Santa, put down the eggnog. You are in the wrong thread.
Kahlee, I don’t recall anyone saying they were “proud” of arresting someone for marijuana. You can say you think it should be decriminalized (as I too, believe), but you still have to abide by the law.
By your line of thinking, if someone believed it should be legal to kill a dog with a hammer, would a policeman be wrong for arresting that person for doing that to your dog?
Just because YOU think it should be legal doesn’t give you the right to break the law. Again, this coming from someone who thinks pot should be legal. Don’t like marijuana laws? Do something about it. I am…. www.norml.com
By Charles Farley
January 14, 2006 7:49 AM | Link to this
Legalizing marijuana will make more jail space available for child abusers and molesters. Who would you rather have as a neighbor? A pot smoker or the child molester who got out early on “Good Behavior” to make room for the pot smoker. The War on Drugs is a failure, let doctors treat addiction, prison sodomy doesn’t cure it. Thanks to the efforts of the drug war American teenagers can get heroin and crack easier than they can get beer and cigarettes. Where are the priorities? What happened to doing it “for the children”? Is it all just a money scam?
Chas. Farley
By David
January 14, 2006 10:40 AM | Link to this
I think the grinch is the one who called the police about the pot. If it was an amount that could fit into a change purse it couldn’t not have been more than a few joints.
By willie
January 15, 2006 11:53 AM | Link to this
as someone who has seen 2 relatives end up in psychiatric institutions (loony bins)due to canabis use it is time people realised it is NOT a harmless drug.Canabis use also brings you into contact with the inevitable DEALER who would really like to get you on to something more expensive and like any good salesman he (or she)will promote there more lucrative products.
By bill
January 16, 2006 3:09 PM | Link to this
its legal for me to kill dogs with hammers because im not stupid enough to tell anyone i do it or leave the body in my wallet.
By A Better Mom Than That
January 17, 2006 2:18 PM | Link to this
Hey, I don’t need Dr. Phil to tell me what to do if my kid shoplifts! One did it when she was 3 and remembers well the lesson learned. She often told the story to her little brother so he also knows the consequences. (It was 11 years before she would go into that store again…just in case they recognized her.)