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By Steve Rose | Friday, September 19, 2008, 02:58 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

One too many

An officer got a call just before 2 a.m. about a drunken guy making a lot of noise. When the officer arrived on site, the man was standing in front of what he said was his apartment. He looked like he’d had a few and sported a bleeding lip to boot. The man said he was doing stand up at a local comedy club when he got into a fight. (Tough crowd)

The officer noted the man became more and more unfriendly, demanding the officer do his job—which was I assume getting his door open. The man became highly agitated and loud and eventually the officer arrested him. The report said the man’s pants fell down and when the officer pulled them back up the man said he was trying to trip him. This man was eventually charged with public intoxication. Thank you, and don’t forget to tip your waitresses.

Robbery

A man reported that just after 9 p.m. he was in his apartment on Summit Drive working on his computer. He heard a knock on the door and when he answered it two men forced their way into the apartment and assaulted him. One man held the victim while the other knocked over his computer and then took his TV. They left the apartment with the TV.

Just after 11 p.m. two men left their apartment on Cedar Run and walked to the store. Somewhere near the dumpster, they were approached by two men who pulled a weapon and took their money. Here’s the good part: The two victims I guess, were so distraught they went on to the store and got some beer. They came back and drank some beer for about 45 minutes and then called the police. They told the officers the bad guys are local and they have seen them before.

A woman and her friend were dropped off at an apartment in the 900 block of Summit Springs Dr. to visit and smoke pot with a guy named “K.” She said it was her birthday. She later called her father to come pick her up. When her father arrived, he helped his daughter place her child in a baby seat in the car. At that time another male named Ryan came out from around a brick wall and pulled a gun on the father. He took over $1,000 from him and then ran off near the QT on Dunwoody Place. The victim said he knew Ryan because they used to live near them in Roswell. By the way, Ryan is a moron.

Burglary

This victim reported that someone forced entry into his apartment in the 500 block of Northridge Drive through a kitchen window. The only item take was his Mexican ID.

Copper wiring was stolen from a home that is under construction in the 5500 block of Lake Island Drive.

A couple, walking the dog spotted a man who they did not know and who looked suspicious, walking down the driveway of their neighbor’s house in the 800 block of Spalding Drive. They called the police and a lookout was given. Later, another officer spotted a man who matched the description, and detained him. The officers found several items on the man that were identified as items taken from two cars at two residences, one of them being the house the witnesses saw the man at. As a result the man was arrested and several items were recovered. This is a great example of people seeing something and then instead of wondering if or not the call the cops, they called and a bad guy goes to jail.

Theft

A cabbie said that around 5:30 a.m. he took a fare to Sandalwood Drive. The man, described as a Hispanic male, got out and took off, ditching the $34 fare.

A yard maintenance employee reported that someone took two chainsaws that were lying in the yard while the men were working. The workers saw a man running up the street with the chainsaws. He got into a white vehicle driven by a woman and left the area.

A woman reported she went to the Target Store at 235 Johnson Ferry Road. She went to the bathroom and accidentally left a wallet on the sink. She returned 3 minutes later and the wallet was gone. She said she suspects a woman, who was waiting behind her, of taking the wallet.

An employee of the Pep Boys Store in the 6500 block of Roswell Road said they did over $200 of work to a car and parked it outside. They later found the car was taken and suspect the person who brought the car in. They suspect him because when he brought the car in, the number he provided was bogus.

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By Dixie

September 19, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

So if I were the cabbie and was going that far I’d request half the estimated fare up front. Then half way through the trip I’d stop & request the second half. If they didn’t want to pay . . “get another cab”

Stolen Chainsaws? Keep your serial numbers recorded. My neighbor got back $4,000 worth in commercial tools within 3 days because he had numbers to report. Sometimes it does work.

The sad part is if the thieves think you’ll get all new tools with insurance $ then they’ll target the new tools too.

By Cassie

September 19, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

You’d have to be in desperate straights indeed to steal a Mexican ID…where are you from if a Mexican ID sounds like a ticket to freedom….Gitmo?

By Dixie

September 19, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

I love the fact that while we’re commenting here on Lt.Steve’s column about the Large Hadron Collider; some hackers were tapping into CERN’s security system. According to informationweek.com “the hackers were “one step away” from a computer than controlled one of the 12,500-ton magnets in the collider”

Barney Fife- that’s your que.

By Lawabidin'

September 20, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

LT,

Saw you in Blacklebee’s reading the paper one night. Check in on Friday nights and you could round up a few suspects. Amen.

By TeaTime

September 20, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

I had tears reading this one. Truth is funnier than fiction. Great job, Steve Rose. The tag line on the stand up comedy drunk guy was inspired. It proves to me that even in the world of comedy, that our brave officers and men of the police force, who protect our rights, our safety, and our general well being, for little or no money and who deserve our thanks beyond what we can give, yes, every single day these brave cops have to deal with people who harbor a complete and total lack of respect for the law.

By Tom T

September 20, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

A couple of disturbingly stupid things jump out at me from today’s column.

1) Why was the toker girl’s dad carrying $1000 in cash in the first place?

2) Most disturbingly stupid is that toker girl apparently took her child with her to smoke pot, apparently to celebrate her birthday?

Where the HELL is Child Protective Services in THIS case?!?

By Joy

September 20, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

I’ve been home all week (“doctor’s orders”), bored out of my mind. I regularly read the AJC —just not as extensively as when I’ve got time to kill. Imagine my delight to find Mr. Rose’s column which provided many real smiles plus an outloud laugh or two! In this week (month and year) of frightening and devastating news all around, it’s quite refreshing to put it all in perspective and chuckle and the foibles and just plain stupidity of some regular folks. Thanks for a good dose of “not-so-bad” news, which goes down alot easier after all the rest! —A fan

By CoffeeChat

September 20, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

I think what TeaTime is trying to say is that no matter which area of our civilization you explore, you are bound to find, even upon a casual examination, people who harbor a complete and total lack of respect for the law.

That about sum it up, TeaTime?

PS. I agree.

By Dixie

September 21, 2008 5:12 AM | Link to this

Reading Joy’s post reminded me of when I started reading this column. But I had to laugh as the thought occurred to me- Is she referring to the stupidity of the people in his article? Or those of us posting? More I ponder the possibility the more I laugh.

By Tea Time

September 21, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Yes, coffee chat, I think that sums it up pretty well. I would only add that there are exceptions. There are demographic groups, or population niche’s that do go along with rules, regulations, statutes, ordinances, and bylaws. These include the Marines, the Navy, the Army, and the Air Force, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the Brownies, but NOT the Webelo ranks of the cub scouts. U C, the cub scouts have to progress through several rankings to get into Boy Scouts: Cub, Tiger, Wolf and Bear. Now all the kids in these rankings comply with rules, and they work and play well with others. But there is a holding pattern rank between the cub scout and the boy scout, and that is Webelo.

I mined some data. I compared the current prison population with the ranks of the webelos of the past fifty years. there is a 100% direct correlation between webelo membership and current inmates.

And all of these folks exhibit a complete and total lack of respect for the law.

I personally never graduated past the webelos and into boy scouts. I thought being a webelo was enough, give it a rest already. I bailed on scouting when I was ten, man. I guess that’s when it all started to go wrong for me. I guess you could say that I bailed on life then.

Once, I forged my mother’s signature on one of the merit badge applications for the bear ranking in cub scouts, and I kept erasing it and trying to make it more real, and the funny part was that I was using a pen, with one of those pen erasers, and by the time I turned the paper in, it was a shredded mess. So, the cub master called my mother and asked if she had signed it. Later, my mother and the den master came to me with the forgery and asked if I was responsible. I looked at the total holy mess and then tried to pretend like I was inspecting it to be sure, and said, “no”. I wish you could have seen the exchange of looks those two gave each other. Fortunately they both laughed, and gave me a lecture about lies and dishonesty and not earning your merit badges. I put both of my index fingers in my ears and went, “La la la la la” during the entire diatribe, believe you me.

I think I need a sermon from the Forgotten Messiah, dont you? Check it out at Jay Nookwood’s column at the AJC.

By Conservative Amusements

September 21, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Obama/Biden 08: Maybe politics does make strange bedfellows, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a chocolate on the pillow?

By catlady

September 21, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

Reminds me of the guy who was stealing gas from one of my neighbor’s cars and he lit a match to try to see if there was any gas in the tank because it was hard to get any to come out. This was 20 years ago when it was not so hard to siphon gas. I had taught the guy when he was small and this confirmed my opinion that he should have been placed in sp ed.

HOWEVER, the Brown’s Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in AL (say no more!) was shut down for several years because some contractor was checking for a gas leak with a candle! I kid you not. This was also a couple of decades ago, as I recall.

Evolution, help us here!

By Cassie

September 22, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

It took me three gas stations to find gas on Saturday, and it was over four bucks for unleaded. F*cking privateers ought to be drawn and quartered, and then used as chum in the shark tank at the aquarium.