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Crime & Punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The victim said that his apartment building had caught on fire and therefore he and his wife were evacuated. The following day he and his wife were temporarily allowed back in. He discovered that his wife’s jewelry was gone. The victim said that only the firefighters and apartment maintenance staff were allowed inside before they were. The value of the loss was over $10,000.
Should have left a better tip?
A man said that his bank card was taken by a restaurant server but not returned. He found later that three charges were made on the card totaling over $800.
Neither a borrower …
A guy loaned his car to another guy who then loaned it to a girl. The guy who loaned the car remembered that he left a gun in the glove box. The guy went to where the two other people were and discovered the gun missing and nobody knew nuttin. He called the police. The officer looked around and found the gun tucked under the back seat of the car. The man and woman were arrested.
Asleep at the wheel
A 23-year old man was arrested following a traffic stop. He was in possession of marijuana at the time he was stopped for Improper Flow of Traffic. He had fallen asleep and was just sitting there.
Snacktime brings jailtime
A 25-year old man was arrested about 6:30 a.m. An officer found him sitting in the parking lot of a closed business and just after an alarm sounded at the location. The man said he had stopped in the parking lot to eat.
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By frank123
October 23, 2006 5:14 PM | Link to this
The victim said that his apartment building had caught on fire and therefore he and his wife were evacuated, and he had $10,000 in jewelry. Sounds like fraud and arson to me. Can’t imaging jewelry surviving a significant fire.
By Mark in Atlanta
October 24, 2006 9:43 AM | Link to this
If his bankcard was taken by the waiter, why didn’t he approach the waitstaff and management before leaving if he didn’t get his card back?
By Nooneknows
October 24, 2006 3:26 PM | Link to this
Mark - He was drunk that is why he left the card. Happens all the time, I worked in a bar for a long time and I have friends who would leave cards everywhere and come back for them because they were hammered.
By Blog Dawg
October 26, 2006 8:09 AM | Link to this
I think I see your problem. You cant even describe the police blotter without introducing more questions than you answer. When you say, “man and women were arrested”, you need to describe the charge and explaining what those arrested did wrong and what fine points of the law they broke, sir.
Also, there are too many descriptives left out for anyone to read this without grabbing a hammer and smashing the screen, or throwing the mouse in the garbage disposal, or peeing on the keyboard in frustration, man.
I like to read stories that have ponies in them or maybe an Indian massacre.
Take your “Asleep at the wheel” story. You say he was in possession of marijuana at the time he was stopped. Well stopped has two meanings. It means the cops pulled him over, or it means he was stopped at the red light, but you already said that. How can the driver get “stopped” by police when he was asleep. Better to write that the cop approached the man who was just sitting in the car. “Stopped” implies action that just didn’t occur.
I have a nerf AK47 that shoots foam bullets and I just plastered my wife I’m so mad after reading your blog. Oh oh. She’s got a nerf Taser that gives static electricity shocks. HIT THE DECK!!!!!
Blog on, sir.