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Monday, August 20, 2007
Stop crime & save trees
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As usual, there were a number of thefts from cars last week. I really wish people would just, if nothing else, hide their stuff. I don’t mean I actually want people to have to go to the trouble of taking something out of the car, eliminating the opportunity to steal it. No, I think that’s a bit much. I’m not saying people are lazy but…….well it’s your stuff but those theft reports generate paper and according to my calculations if we reduced thefts from cars as much as 30 percent, we’d save an average of 16 trees each month. This means that the greenhouse effect would be, uh, affected and Al Gore would have to make another movie because all the numbers would be skewed.
I think that you should make a checklist of only a few things, but important things. Check your deadbolts and make sure they’re sturdy—especially in the older homes. Check the window locks and if you have time, think about pinning then together. (Drill a hole and pin them together where the two windows meet in the middle.) Use the alarm. We caught someone last week after he tripped the alarm at a residence at about 5:30 a.m. How many of you went to bed and forgot to set the alarm?
Check your outside lights to see if they work and think about motion detectors. When you make the hardware store run, go and check them out. They are easily installed.
For those of you hitting the clubs, remember, if you haven’t got it done by midnight, go ahead and cut your losses, save money, and just head on out. Don’t get into that mode of the false sense of rationalization where you’ll just have a couple of more shooters and then cruise the bar one more time. Did you know that excessive drinking in the bar actually presents a harmful effect to the other patrons? It’s true. When you throw up on them, they could slip and fall causing physical injury to them and you; them by banging their head on the bar and you by a punch in the face. After that we have to come out and write a report. (See Al Gore-above.)
Some, but not all, incidents reported to the Sandy Springs Police over the past week:
A delivery driver said that he delivered an order to an address in the Foxcroft Condos. The occupant of the condo said they did not order anything. The driver then exited the stairs and was walking out of the front of the building when he was struck on the head with an object, possibly a bottle. He said a male, about 17 years old, tall, wearing khaki shorts and a beige t-shirt ran back through the building and out the opposite door after he was hit. He was treated for a cut on his head. A broken bottle was found nearby.
Two men robbed the Comfort Inn on Roswell Road around 8:30 p.m. They came into the lobby and walked around until no customers were present and then one man pulled a gun and demanded money. They left with a small amount of cash. (There isn’t much. It’s a credit card transacted business.) Suspects: Two males. One was wearing a white t-shirt, black pants, white baseball hat and dark sunglasses. The second guy had on long baggy jean shorts, white t-shirt, and a black baseball hat with a yellow “P” on it, similar to the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball hat. The description is similar to a number of other hotel clerk robberies in the metro area.
A man reported that he was selling jewelry from his apartment on August 12th. He said he invited a woman and two men inside to look at the jewelry. He said during the meeting he felt uneasy so he went into the bedroom to get his gun which I guess makes you feel easy again. When he went into the bedroom he left his stuff in the other room so when he came back out, he told the three people he felt uneasy, even with the gun, and asked them to leave. They did and so did a $1500 Rolex and a fake Rolex valued at $50 (that’s a stretch).
According to the victim, the three people then knocked on the door, trying to get back in. He would not let them in. He said that instead of remaining in the locked apartment, with a gun, and access to a telephone, and I am assuming knowing how to dial 911, he instead fled the apartment. He said the other people shot at him. Officer’s found that the ‘victim’s’ gun that was left inside the apartment (duh) had been discharged, again according to the victim, by the suspects.
This one doesn’t even pass the smell test does it?
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