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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
How to get arrested
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An officer at Roswell and Morgan Falls roads made a traffic stop on a car that passed a school bus, which was flashing its red lights and unloading passengers.
The driver produced an expired insurance card and said his license was lost. The officer asked the man to spell the name of the street on which he lives. The driver began to do everything in his power to get arrested.
He asked the officer how to spell the word “drive.” (For the record, this is not a good response.) The officer returned to the patrol car and then presented the driver with his traffic citations.
The officer explained the citations and while doing so the man told her, “I’m not #^#-ing deaf!”
The motorist added “#@$-you! %#$#-you! And $#$#%-you!
The conversation went downhill from there.
The 24-year-old Roswell resident was charged with disorderly conduct, in addition to the traffic charges, and taken to the Fulton County Jail.
Camouflage the hard way
Officers were called to a Gables Lane apartment to meet with a woman who said her baby’s father had come into town to see his child. He became intoxicated and got into an argument with the victim.
She told him to leave, but he refused. She put his suitcase at the door and, again, told him to leave. He refused. She then told him that she called the police. He left.
Officers could hear the man running around the back yard in the Hunter’s Branch area and found him after he had covered his face and body with leaves — in an attempt to look like a fallen tree. The officers struggled with the suspect before they could get him into custody. They got him patched up at Grady and then took him to jail.
The 35-year-old Atlantan was charged with obstruction, public drunk and simple assault.
Do you think they’ll recognize me?
A Jones Bridge Road pizza shop employee said she was about to leave work when a man came in holding a wrench and telling her he lost his wallet. The man began to mess around with the coin change machine. He pried open the machine, took the money trays and ran out of the restaurant.
He got into a green early ’90s model Honda Accord occupied by two men.
According to the witness/complainant, the same guy came in the night before, wearing the same clothing. The delivery driver knows the man who came in the night before and has known the suspect for a long time. (This guy ought to get together with the guy who dropped his cell phone with his picture of him holding a gun. They could write a book.)
