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Crime & punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some incidents reported to Sandy Springs police this week:
Assault A man reported that “while minding his own business and enjoying an alcoholic beverage” a man walked up, grabbed him and struck him in the nose with is knee.
Robbery
The victim said that someone entered their home and took about $10,000 in appliances and other items. The house is on the market and the realtor said the house was shown to a man who efused to give his name to the realtor (BIG CLUE?). There was no forced entry. One way to at least have a chance to ID someone in this scenario is if they don’t want to give their name, get the tag number.
Thefts
A member of the LA Fitness reported that while he was working out, someone went into his locked locker and stole his pants containing his wallet. In his wallet was $900 cash, a $15,000 check, his credit cards and debit cards. You know what I’m going to say here right? Nine-Hundred bucks? Fifteen-Thousand dollar check?
Comments
By Stone
March 21, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this
Efused?
By Thusitha Johnson
March 22, 2008 1:38 AM | Link to this
How does a mentally ill inmate in Fulton County Jail(Rice St)that is on suicide watch ends up dead with a broken neck and multiple bruises and a bloody nose and busted lip? Someone help me find out.
By black Sambo
March 22, 2008 6:31 AM | Link to this
Let’s see a “mentally ill” criminal ends up dead, meaning my tax dollar doesn’t have to feed it anymore??
Whats the problem? The big problem is whoever did it stopped with one criminal.
By never again
March 22, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this
I used to go religiously regular to the gym. Once, because of a groin rash from h.e.double.ll, I foolishly left my FUBU jockstrap in my locker with only two toy poodles set in ambush inside the locker, you know, just in case. You know what Steve Rose would say, right? Of course the poodles were neutralized with roof’d scooby snacks, and my FUBU was gone. I reported the crime, of course, but the officers said that all men look alike in jockstraps, so there was no point in a lineup of the usual suspects.
I’ll never do that again, I promise.
By Fred
March 22, 2008 11:20 PM | Link to this
Dear Stone: Efused is an example that the editors for the AJC went to the same Gov’t school that you did. Probably up north somewhere.
Thusitha: What the hell is a thusitha? Some damn made up name or did your momma not know how to spell any better than an AJC editor. Hell maybe she IS an AJC editor. Just damn. Hi, my name is Muntimbuanda. It don’t mean squat and isn’t a word but it sounded cool to my crack head mom………
To anyone: Why do you even go to LA Fitness. Read the crime sheets. The members there get ripped off so often the management MUST be tipping the crooks off. There ARE other gyms that don’t make the news nightly for being a haven for crooks. Here is your sign. Quit wasting my tax dollars and cops’ time by “reporting” when you get your stupid butt ripped off from an LA Fitness. Here is a brain, MOVE TO ANOTHER GYM that isn’t staffed by crooks.
By JackP
March 23, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
Whoever did it deserves a metal.
By Stone
March 23, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this
Thanks for clearing that up the efusion, Fred. Thought it was like ebay and e-trade. Educated, if you want to call it that, in the south though.
By glenn Adams
March 23, 2008 10:06 PM | Link to this
Not a bad exercise routine: Chasing thieves off from the gym twice weekly. Pretty good marketing idea, what do you think?
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By ElBubba
March 23, 2008 11:56 PM | Link to this
Lt. Steve, I had a question I posted in your last blog and wasn’t sure if you saw it. What happens to the gun and person when someone is caught with a loaded/concealed handgun that they shouldn’t have? (No permit) Gracias por su atención El Bubba
By Cheney's Okay
March 24, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this
New Rules: Dont leave valuables in your locker at the gym. Employees must wash their hands of responsibility for when they crucified christ, this being easter monday and all. Do we baptise our hands each time we wash them? When did people start washing their hands? Was it barBque’d ribs that tipped the balance? Ditto cannibals?? Did neanderthals wash their hands, and is that proof that we interbred with them instead of hunting them all down one by one until they were exterminated because they wouldn’t wash their hands after using the little boy’s room? See, back then women hunted 4 restrooms in packs, men went singly, and bathroom etiquette made the bathroom the chapel. The original ten commandments until moses’s: “Flush. Wash hands. Dry. Mickey Mouse a seat cover. Sit. Give me some room. No cherry bombs. Eyes forward. Two shakes. Tip. Dont touch the door handle.
By Carlos
March 24, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this
The 3 incidents prove (as I think Lt. Rose would also assert to) that sometimes victims put themselves in position to be victimized. Some prevention and a little common sense would do ya good.
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March 29, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this
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By Fred
March 30, 2008 12:14 AM | Link to this
Dear Stone: Efusion? The way you use it doesn’t make a lick of sense. Steve’s typo was at a point that anyone other than a certified moron would realize that an R was left off the word REFUSED. Come on now, give it up, what you really mean is that your original post was an attempted jab that was so insipid that upon further reflection (and my pointing it out) that you were embarrassed about that weak assed attempt and are responding with attempted levity, like that is what you meant all along……….
That’s cool.