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Friday, July 14, 2006
He lost the shaft, then got the shaft
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A man stole a rotary hammer from a Roswell Road home improvement store. He ran out to his van. He started the vehicle and, alas, the drive shaft fell off.
The loss-prevention guys detained him until police arrived and arrested him for shoplifting.
Car maintenance should never be taken lightly.
Ouch and ouch!
The Roswell Rod victim was scammed when a man who said his name was Bratt Nock (?) said he was a representative of PayPal and due to their site being down needed to verify his account number.
He gave Bratt his Bank of America check card number and his security code. Brett later called back, under another fake name, and wanted to buy an Xbox system. Later the victim found that Brett accessed and took $500 from his PayPal account.
People are strange
A man reported that he let (clue) three strangers stay over at his Marsh Trail Circle apartment. The next day he found them gone, along with his computer game systems and about 40 DVDs.
The reason they call them strangers is because they’re strange and you should never have anyone or anything strange in your house for very long. People are strange when you’re a stranger. See? There’s nothing good about that word.
