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Crime & punishment
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A look at the police blotter:
Robbery
A man said that just before 2 a.m. he left his apartment in the 500 block of Northridge Drive, headed to his car to go to the store, when he was attacked by three males who hit him with an object and then went through his pockets. The victim was treated for two broken teeth. The suspects were around 16-18 years of age, one wore a white t-shirt.
Thefts
The resident of a home on Crompton Court said that his maid service is responsible for the theft of three iPods from his home.
A woman reported someone stole her wallet from her purse. The thief got $100 cash and three credit cards. The amount later charged on the cards exceeded $1,000.
A representative of an office on Peachtree Dunwoody Road said after they hired an employee to manage billing, that employee began taking money exceeding $1,400. More money is missing and the suspect has not returned to work nor will return calls to the office.
Forgery, Fraud, and ID Theft
The woman reported that her Social Security number was stolen and used to obtain a loan for more than $5,700. She found out when collections services contacted her. If this happens to you, call the police to make a report. Get a copy of the report, make additional copies and immediately send one to the agency attempting to collect. Notify the three reporting credit bureaus, Experian, Equifax, and Trans Union. Have fraud alerts placed on your credit.
A man in the 9400 block of Roberts Drive received a letter from Harbor Financial in Ontario, Canada, telling him he won $100,000. (Clue) Enclosed in the envelope was a check for over $3,900 to cover taxes for the winnings. (Big clue) The victim was instructed to wire that amount of money to New York to an Alicia Cook. The victim would then receive the winnings. (Really Big Clue!) As if you didn’t know, the victim deposited the money and the check was later returned as phony. Go with your suspect instincts anytime you are suddenly informed that you’ve won money, especially lots of it.
An employee of a doctor’s office in the 5500 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road fraudulently called in a forged prescription for 30 tablets of Lortab in the name of one of the doctor’s existing patients. The fraud was discovered before the suspect could pick up the prescription.
Burglary
A man who lives in the 1600 block of Harbor Point said his front door was forced open while he was at work. Thieves made off with a 42-inch plasma TV, PS3 and a paintball gun.
Two people, in charge of checking on a man’s house while he was out of town, saw someone leaving the home on Misty Ridge Manor after breaking in. Officers later made an arrest on the case. The arrested man had worked for the victim. He said he was down on his luck and for that reason, did the burglary. The homeowner refused to prosecute.
This resident said someone entered her apartment in the 1900 block of Sandalwood Drive, without forced entry, and took a gold-plated nameplate from her clock. She suspects the apartment maintenance staff.
Assaults
Two men got into an argument when one of them, allegedly consuming adult beverages, wanted to play the drums in a jam session at Café 290. Soon it turned to physical violence when one of the guys got hit in the head and the other in the face. Please, play the drums responsibly.
Comments
By Dixie
October 6, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this
The holidays are coming boys and girls.
A few years back my CC number was jacked. The officer said the most common way is by fast food kids who get the job exclusively to collect numbers. They take your card, slide it through the machine and while they stand there waiting for approval they lay a piece of paper over the front of your card and run a pencil over it. That gives them a print of the front. Then as they hand it back they flip it over and look at the 3 digit code on the back. Now they can go shopping. After that I recorded those 3 digit codes at home and used a sharpie to block it out on the card. Hasn’t happened since.
By Cindy
October 6, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this
THAT (sharpie marker) is a good idea Dixie. Thanks for the heads up.
By Dixie
October 6, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this
Anytime Cindy. You’ve been missed. I thought Stone was headed for Cindy DTs.
By Troglodyke
October 6, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this
After that I recorded those 3 digit codes at home and used a sharpie to block it out on the card. Hasn’t happened since.
Can a merchant refuse to take the card when I try to use it legally if those numbers have been blacked out? Or are they just for online verification?
All the fast food places I use my card at (granted, it isn’t many) let me swipe my own card.
By Brian
October 6, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this
Trog: those numbers on the back are used mostly for validation of online purchases, not brick and mortar retail/register transactions. The newest hot commodity in international “sales” is stolen credit card data. Security experts say the people living in the former USSR — often in Russia and former Eastern Bloc nations like Ukraine — as well as Asian nations like Malaysia, are operating the marketplaces and buying the card numbers from hackers.
I for one never, EVER use a credit card where minimum wage people like those at fast food joints work. That may sound hateful or distrustful to some, but in this day in age, trust is a hard thing to come by these days, from the CEO on down.
By Stone
October 6, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this
Cindy DTs? What can I say? I’ve grown accustomed to you three ladies. (u know who ur) You’re pleasant and polite and that is in short supply on these blogs.
By Dixie
October 6, 2008 10:22 PM | Link to this
Stone - You sound a little like Jack Nicholson. Just different intentions.
Trog - I use my cards frequently. In 3-4 years I have not had anyone mention inaccessibilty to those numbers as a problem. Come to think of it, nobody seems to have even noticed they’re blacked out. Or if they did notice they didn’t want to raise suspicion. The only time I’ve been asked for the numbers is online. The big thing I picked up on with that cop is that these people aren’t there to earn money. What the establishment pays them is peanuts compared to what they get for these numbers.
Another thing that happened to me is one took my card, swiped it for our meal then again for a $50 gift card. They pocketed the gift card and the only way I got out of it was the gift card was used during the day 40 miles from where I was working. I didn’t have to pay for it other than an hour of paper work and phone calls. Oh - the restaurant bought me lunch. That’s lunch only. They wouldn’t comp the vino.
By Fred
October 6, 2008 11:42 PM | Link to this
Holy Cow Dixie. That is brilliant. I never thought (or heard, or read) of that before. As soon as I hit enter I’m going to do that to my cards………… oh wait, my wife took them all from me because I was using them to much. OK, I’ll tell HER about it and maybe she will let me have them back long enough to dod the Sharpie thing.
on another note. What do you get for a gold plated nameplate? 15 cents?
By Top of the World, Ma
October 7, 2008 5:52 AM | Link to this
You know, after I read this edition of Officer Rose’s police blotter, this feeling of lawlessness came over me. Crime is contagious, you know.
So, I started casing this one bank that’s just been beggin’ for it lately. I noticed the guard likes to stand outside the door smoking cigarettes. I knew my way in: I’d use the exploding cigar gag. Then I’d tie him up, lock him in the safe, get drunk, ravage the teller’s bodies, and steal all the gold.
All I need is a get away driver.
I’ve realized finally that it’s me who has a complete a total lack of respect for the law.
Top of the world, ma!
By Troll alert
October 7, 2008 7:28 AM | Link to this
Analchord is back this time posing as top of the world ma. This poor fool is fooling no one but himself. He hears the laughter and thinks we’re laughing with him. Off his Lithium again. A complete lack of respect for his mental condition.
By Cassie
October 7, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this
You know, I work in the industry, and I’ve been hit…three times now? and once in my own building? Last year, the folks that run our cafe had some problem with theft, and my Amex number ended up having some fun in Ibizia, without me, to the tune of $6,000!! Prior to that, it was a mag stripe reader theft, and prior to that (and way back) a pickpocket during the Olympics!
I’ve noticed an upswing in ‘net fraud, esp. sites posing as legitimate sites (I’ve seen a VERY good amazon one) asking you to re-fill in your information because it was lost or corrupted. NEVER give someone that security code/CVV value. No one has any need to store it EVER EVER - it is generally only needed at the moment of the transaction, and should only ever be included in the authorization string that is included when your sale is posted.
My two cents - do NOT hand it out. People don’t even need it over the phone. Number and expiration is all that is needed there.
By PinkoNeoConLibertarian
October 7, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
One thing that I’ve started doing when I get my renewal cards is instead of signing my name on the back I write “Verify I.D.” It doesn’t do anything to deter online usage, but if the card is physically stolen it will hopefully deter any large charges.
By olfart
October 7, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
Blacking out the numbers on the rear of the card may help deter online purchases, but all it takes is a little alcohol on a rag to remove the Sharpie ink. Also most large retailers like Wal-Mart don’t even verify the card user’s id and signature. Just swipe it and go. I asked my credit card issuer about this and they told me that verification is left up to the retailer and is not required by the CC company. If the purchase is made with a stolen card the retailer gets charged back for the amount and the cardholder is not liable. It’s still cheaper in the case of a large retailer to absorb the loss versus take the time to verify each card ID and signature. My CC issuer has a good fraud program in place. I use my CCs instead of cash( pay them off each month and get rebates)) so I make frequent purchases with them. About every week or so if I have made several purchases on the same day the CC Co will issue a hold on the authorization until they have contacted me and verified my ID. It’s sometimes a PIA, but it does offer an extra margin of safety. Still…if someone wants your card no bad enough they will get it.
By See?
October 7, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this
How easy was that?
bwa
By Lt. Steve
October 7, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this
I really like cottage cheese now. Do you guys like cottage cheese?
By Troll alert
October 7, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this
See? = po fo / analcord, not fooling anyone. Try harder.
By Dixie
October 7, 2008 7:17 PM | Link to this
I like cottage cheese with shredded fiesta cheese and/or shredded asiago chz sprinkled on top. Bacon crumbles are good too. It’s also good w/ a little orange marmalade mixed in. Or by itself.
By Dixie
October 7, 2008 7:29 PM | Link to this
Fred - I liked your “Heads Up: RCP” post. Except the last line. Other than that one it hits the nail on the head !
By Cindy
October 7, 2008 7:55 PM | Link to this
Lt. Steve,
Cottage cheese? It’s alright I guess. I know a guy from Turkey who likes cottage cheese with green beans. Sounds disgusting. Wait, no it’s plain yogurt he eats with green beans. My bad.
By Dixie
October 7, 2008 8:18 PM | Link to this
Cindy - My favorite yogurt mix is Greek Tzatziki. Yee-rohs YYUUUMMMMMM!
By Cindy
October 7, 2008 8:59 PM | Link to this
What is that Dixie?
By Dixie
October 7, 2008 9:17 PM | Link to this
The sauce on gyros.
By Fred
October 7, 2008 10:00 PM | Link to this
Cottage cheese with diced home grown maters is the best. Add salt, pepper and stir to mix. Enjoy…………
Heads up RPC post? LOL I’m lost………
By Fred
October 7, 2008 10:02 PM | Link to this
LOL Nevermind Dixie, I got it now. Thanks, I was trying to find that thread.
Go Obama (just for you Dixie, I really don’t care for McSame, never liked him before and won’t start now……..)
By Fred
October 7, 2008 10:14 PM | Link to this
Just Damn, I read further down that blog Dixie and saw my stalker is back, the one who uses my name for weird posts. Hope you could tell the difference lol.
By Dire P's and Q's
October 8, 2008 5:53 AM | Link to this
Bravo, Fred. You keep commenting. Dont let trolls ruin your day. I think coddling trolls is the number one crime of the new millenia.
Too bad we dont enforce them rules.
By james
October 8, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this
Always get your card from a local bank or CU so you can got in and talk to somebody face to face. I was ripped off by a catalog. My bank girl went tearing out from under her porch and snatched all the money back while I was sitting there.
By BexB
October 8, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this
My Bank of America credit card is awesome - they call me anytime I have made a rather large purchase (such as when my husband and I picked out a diamond anniversary band for me) to verify that I had, indeed, made the purchase. I got the call before I even got home with my new ring!
By Troll Alert
October 8, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this
Dire Ps and Qs is really analrod/ Po Fo/ She?/top of the world and is probably the one stealing IDs. You’re not fooloing anyone PO FO!!
By kia
October 8, 2008 9:12 PM | Link to this
Hi Lt. Steve—
I saw you on WSB TV tonight (Weds) talking about that stolen mega-gun. It looked like something out of Starship Troopers! Hope the good guys get it back soon.
By "The Corporal"
October 9, 2008 6:07 AM | Link to this
What, prey tell, is a mega gun?
By Cindy
October 9, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this
LT Steve, Please tell the detective to read your blog. You’ve instructed us countless times to never leave our purses in the car. So when we think we can leave it unseen, such as in the trunk, let her know she has to do that at another location, not get out of the car, put it in the trunk and then leave.
Even when you think nobody see’s, somebody still usually does.
By catlady
October 9, 2008 9:25 PM | Link to this
Steve, we are hearing of gas being siphoned out of cars up here in the N Ga mtns. True where you are?
I loved your “please play the drums responsibly”. As if.
By Dixie
October 10, 2008 5:58 AM | Link to this
Fred - “Thousands of voter registration forms faked, officials say” All submitted by 1 group(ACORN). Guess who paid these people $800,000 to register new voters in the primaries?
Obama
The article is front page CNN this morning. CNN is in love with Obama. Reporting this must be a painful sting! I felt all along the primaries had been fraudulently tipped. I smell an investigation coming.
I haven’t been back to that RCP column with your stalker. I only saw 1 post and it was calm and sensible. That was you who wrote about all the people who move to Georgia, do nothing but sit around whinning about it and refuse to leave. Wasn’t it? I think those people are going to be miserable no matter where they are. They’re just looking for anyone other than themselves to blame it on.
Cindy - When we’re going to a 2nd or 3rd store I tell my children (all the time) to put things in the trunk when we leave the first store. Anyone sitting in a parking lot (in Dunwoody) sees you get out of your car, put something in the trunk, and walk away, is going to know that must be of value. Why else would you go through the motion? They raise more attention than if they’d just tucked it under the seat.
By "Spank" the monkey
October 10, 2008 6:10 AM | Link to this
There might be an investigation AFTER the election but by then it’ll be too late and my man Obama will be pres. Obama ‘08
By The Way
October 10, 2008 6:54 AM | Link to this
Palin 08: Even a blind squirrel can find an ACORN.
McCain 08: Forgetting Sarah Palin.
By Twynn
October 10, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this
Dixie, you are so right to do it that way too. Of course, there’s always the creeps that sit around watching for people to do that, then follow them to the next store and wait for them to go in too. Ain’t that the biggest bunch of crap? Can’t keep it in the car, can’t take it home, can’t throw big boxes away because then that advertises that you just got that new product…so they come thief it from us too. Grrrr.
By Stone
October 10, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this
This election isn’t over yet. McCain might just pull it out in the end. I voted for him eight years ago (and plan on doing so again) but he pulled out of the race the next day. He’s a good man and would have done a much better job than Bush these past eight years. Doesn’t look good though if you believe the polls. McCain ‘08
By reader
October 10, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this
The polls. Do they ever say how many people have been polled? I’ve been a registered voter for 20+ years, in different states, and have never, ever been polled. I don’t even know anyone who has been polled. When the commentators speak of the polls, I wish they would not talk in percentages, but actual numbers and demographics, etc.
By "The Corporal"
October 10, 2008 7:13 PM | Link to this
Po Fo, by The Way, you’re not fooling anyone.
By Dixie
October 10, 2008 8:54 PM | Link to this
I’m almost 48 & I too don’t know of anyone who has been polled. The few times the articles admit to the numbers polled, it’s usually around 2,000.
Whoop tee doo.
And you have to wonder if they’re honest about that. Likely closer to 200.
Maybe they count on these silly little “Questions in a box” that you see on web pages.
By Stone
October 10, 2008 10:17 PM | Link to this
I guess the people who are polled are the ones dumb enough to stop in the mall when a person with a clipboard says “can I ask you a couple of questions, it’ll only take a minute” or who don’t hang up when and automated voice says HI THERE, WE JUST HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS FOR YOU. I’ve never been polled either, nor know anyone who has been. Good point “reader”.
By Troll Coddling 4 fun and profit
October 11, 2008 4:45 AM | Link to this
No, corporal, (rocket scientist), By The Way is the ID. You see, I knew that each ID is preceeded by “BY”, so, because, “By The Way” is a lexiconic phrase, I simply put “The Way” in the ID box, and it comes out, “By The Way”. I do that because I’m a creative genius, while you’re one of my many stalkers. I am analchord, and never try to fool anyone. I use multiple IDs as an ID, dig?
You should try to remember your training, (what training? ARMY training, sir), and join the good men standing in line who have learned (by blogging with me) their own limitations.
By "The Corporal"
October 11, 2008 7:01 AM | Link to this
Analrod/pofo/way/troll do you really expect people to believe that crap? “Creative Guiness?” Guinness has two n’s, you simpleton. LOL! You post nonsense, try to deceive by using different names, get busted because you’re so transparent and lame and then claim Oh, I never try to fool anyone/ I use multiple IDs as an ID. That doesn’t even make sense. Go away you pathetic little man, back to that lonely, loser existence you call a life.
By "Spank" the monkey
October 11, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
Too funny! Does anyone like Analcord?
By Dixie
October 11, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this
I’m frequently amused by him/her/?/it.
Somtimes Analchord makes valid points mixed in with all those off the wall rants. I for one don’t want anyone to leave this column. Can you imagine how bland it would become?
Besides, If analchord isn’t here then that means he could be out starting a conversation with some unsuspecting innocent. By keeping analchord here we are doing good.
So I guess I like analchord. Mostly because I think the “analchord bashers” are really analchord trying to mess with us. Surely I’m not the only one who recognizes the similarities in the posts.
By Stone
October 11, 2008 7:19 PM | Link to this
I agree Dixie, no one should be told to leave this blog no matter how ridiculous their rants are unless they are racist or hurtful to others. I also suspect anal-chord is behind the calls for him to shut up (strange as that is to believe) though I do think he and corporal have a battle going on that is real. I’ve read other blogs where the corporal is asking if he thinks Anal. is fooling anyone. I think the guy is just lonely and likes reading his own words whether they make sense or not. Live and let live people!
By Tyrus Raymond
October 11, 2008 8:14 PM | Link to this
Corporal, your lame Heetler reference is pathetic. You’re not so much Mein Kamfp as Band Kamp. But you made the big mistake of conjuring and invoking the demon that was der heetler. Well, I can channel Hitler if you’d like. Lets just see what he thinks of you.
You have to get into a dark room now, corporal and cooperate, stone, U2. Dixie, please help us here. Turn all the lights off, yes ALL of them. Now, light a candle, one candle. Okay. Heetler…..Heetler…..Wo bist du der Heetler…..Heetler…..Heetler….Wo bist du der Heetler…..”ICH BEEN DER HEETLER”…..(I think we got him, folks)….”Ich been der Heelter unt der corporal ist ein dumkauf unt ein sheisskauf”……
AUUUGHHH!!! Whew! That was painful. Okay, Let me read what I wrote, I’ll translate in the Germanic vernacular of the Litchenstein Quatrain, so that you can understand what der Heetler say to you this day…….”corporal is a dope and a sh!thead”.
Wow. Hard to get happy after that one, eh corporal idiot?
bwa haw
moron.
By "Spank" the Monkey
October 11, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this
Tyrus Raymond is Analrod/troll coddling/dire p’s and q’s/post haste. You confused people are whacked if you think he is purposely revealing his many aliases. Dixie you and your yesman stoner are idiots. Me and the corpral are all over his a* and it’s starting to get to the fool. What’s all this heetler sh*t about anyway? Po Fo you aren’t fooling anyone.
By Tyrus Raymond
October 11, 2008 9:37 PM | Link to this
Wrong, Spank, corporal is a purposeful reference to hitler. U C, hitler was a corporal in ww1. He was a message dispatcher and would drive this little truck across the battlefield with orders for troops on the battlefield. The allies would use Hitler for target practice. They zeroed in on him many times for sport. he was one little car. him with shell. Somehow, in spite of many near misses, where anyone else would have been keeled a thousand times over, Hitler survived. It’s an amazing story, actually. the subject of a thousand parodies, including one by the three stooges.
I’m not surprised that you dont know this, but know this: I’ve destroyed the coporal, and it’s very unlikely that you’ll ever hear from him again.
I know who you are spank, glw yahoo? Annetteintheinternet? granny, dusty, @@, woodgirl, RW, Wooten, Jbmlaw.
You’ve just proved it, you fool. And I’ll see you in court.
You cant threaten another american in a time of war. You just cant. They passed the patriot act just for jackasses like you.
You pathetic fall guy. I set you up and you fell for it.
bwa haw.
Start shredding and deleting. the pathetic coverup efforts are worth millions to me.
By Dixie
October 11, 2008 11:09 PM | Link to this
Oh Spanky - Did I hit a nerve? Or are you still sore from the previous columns?
As my students say - Whatever!
I’m now laughing my a$$ off!
By Tyrus Raymond
October 11, 2008 11:32 PM | Link to this
Moron!
By Dixie
October 11, 2008 11:37 PM | Link to this
BTW - Yesman get more BJ’s, eliminating the need to Spank the Monkey.
By Fred
October 12, 2008 12:09 AM | Link to this
Depending upon the poll, they are done very scientifically and have been actually proven correct. I would try to explain but if you have been too stoned all your life to understand higher mathematics, I could easier teach a pig to fly.
Of course, all at the same time polls can be manipulated by the way they ask the questions and the choices that they give you to respond.
Color me lucky or stupid, but I have been polled several times in the last several years on a myriad of topics, including politics. Some where heavily slanted to elicit certain responses and I did not complete them. Some were not. True polls, asking unbiased questions of 2-3 thousand people actually are correct more often than not. But don’t let me cloud your dumb assed stoned mind with reality, toke up another joint.
By Stone
October 12, 2008 3:53 AM | Link to this
Hey everyone, Spank, Dixie, Tyrus, Anal-chord, please leave me out of this weird argument/discussion y’all are having. I blog here for enjoyment, a chance to escape my troubles for awhile, not to vent anger, tell anyone to stfu or be disrespectful to others. I wish all of you the best, really. As Rodney King said, “can’t we all just get along?”
B Blessed
By "The Corporal"
October 12, 2008 7:55 AM | Link to this
PoFo/analman you aren’t even close my confused, psychotic nemesis. You spent a wonderful Saturday evening online posting gibberish slamming your perceived enemies, threatening retaliation against all the people who are sick of your multiple IDs and incoherent posts and desperately seeking out who is relentlessly dogging you and causing you such grief. Sounds like the only person who likes you is that sweet soul Dixie who seems to like anyone with a pulse. If you had a life you wouldn’t have spent Sat. night online raging against people with your pompass, blind, angry BS. You’ve destroyed the corporal? Please it’s obvious you don’t even know who “The Corporal” is. It ain’t Hitler, that’s for sure. Think back, think way back to when this all started. Way back.
By "Spank" the monkey
October 12, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this
LOL! Somebody’s cracking under the pressure, by the way. POor FOol!
Fred- You are going to explain higher mathematics to us? Too funny. I have a degree from UGA, do you even have a GED from GA, redneck? (or is that GAREDNECK?) The one that sounds stoned on the board is you, burger queen. Just make me a wopper and shut the hell up about higher mathermatics.
By reader
October 12, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this
Fred: Seriously, how were you polled…via telepohone? I’m not talking about paid participation surveys, but “real” political polls. How is it that you’ve been polled several times and most people don’t even know a soul who has been polled?
I just don’t get how extropolating a survey of 2,000 people somehow morphs into a representation of public sentimments, especially when the talk involves percentages. For example, 68% of 2,000 is 1,360. Somehow, the polls attempt to make it seem that the opinion of 1,360 individuals represents the majority in public opinion? Well, who are these people polled and where are these people located? Give some demographics, filters and related facts when reporting the stats. I don’t see the accuracy or science in these polls, only political spin.
Um…is UGA considered an elite institution of higher learning?
By "Spank" the monkey
October 12, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this
reader- um…not to brag or anything, but UGA taught me how to count all the money (95k) I make and I’m just two years removed from Athens. A lot better than selling fries at Burger King, just ask Fred the math wiz… when his shift is over.
By Stone
October 12, 2008 7:08 PM | Link to this
That’s a little smug Spanky. Somebody has to make the burgers and someone has to be their manager. I have more respect for the honest, hard working, friendly burger flipper than the corrupt politician, dishonest salesman or doctor taking illegal kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies. If you have a heart, respect and compassion for your fellow man and a moral code that you live by, then you are a success in my book, degree or not.
By reader
October 12, 2008 7:36 PM | Link to this
Rememember, someone owns that fast food restaurant, too, and probably more than one. Those stores are not all corporately owned. It’s called franchising. And, that owner may sometimes wind up flipping those burgers…whatever it takes to get the job done. That owner-manager who sometimes flips your burger is the guy/gal laughing all the way to the bank, especially when those full of misguided youthful arrogance look down their noses at them. They’re making a lot more than 95K.
By Fred
October 12, 2008 8:22 PM | Link to this
Dear Spank,
Impress me with your degrees, or not. Degrees are for those too stupid to be able to learn themselves. You are a case in point. Am I supposed to be so stupid that I don’t realize that you are an AJC employee who can have access to my throw away Email addy? Just damn, you got busted. Toke up another joint, have someone throw some crap down your head and call it ejumication.
But to answer your silly question. No, I do not have a GED from Georgia. I have not needed a GED but thank you for your concern. I actually had to pay more than your 95K in taxes last year, and I did not go to UGA. Not slamming UGA, it’s a fine institution of higher education. I however find it amusing that YOU, blessed with the benefits of higher education, and perhaps a brag on your next post of advanced degrees, needs the concept of higher mathematics explained to them. I guess this would be a good place to get a dig on UGA, but frankly, it not only would not be accurate, but also my heart wouldn’t be in it. Higher mathematics encompass somethiong other than 1+1 Mr. Spank. Statistics are a little further along that trail. Given your comments, I KNOW I can not explain it to you.
Between you and I however we know everything there is to know in the world. YOU know everything except that you are a revolving arsehole, and I know that. I get one fact and you get the rest. I’ll be content with my one fact.
Reader: I am not being deliberately obtuse but it really does take an understanding of higher mathematics to understand that yes, legitimately polling 2000 people can accurately predict the behavior patterns of 250 million. And yes, I have been polled by reliable polling people. I can see through the idiots and their slanted questions in a nano second. LOL I start harassing them when it is apparent they are trying to slant the so called data and they hang up. As you can see, I can hold my own against liars and idiots and am not easily intimidated.
oh, and yes reader, in all actuality, UGA is a fine institution of higher education. Is it Harvard, MIT, or Emory? No, but it is not that far behind. UGA at least scores number one in rankings for educating it’s “student athletes” in the top 25 teams in the AP football polls. Higher than Ga Tech (which was not ranked but they showed theirs score) higher than VT Tech, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and Duke among others who claim to be “academic schools that hold their athletes to higher standards. This is a FACT, not a wish. I have no reason to lie as I have NEVER attended a class a UGA like Spank has. Please don’t equate him with the typical Georgia grad. I rather doubt he actually finished a degreed program there as it is actually a good University.
By Fred
October 12, 2008 8:31 PM | Link to this
Amen Stone. I’m still p** at you for throwing me under the bus but intellectual integrity DEMANDS that I give you kudos for that burgers/manager post. NO ONE who works deserves to be denigrated. We all do what we can do and us good ones do it to the best of our ability. I flipped burgers for McDonalds once when I was much younger and I was the best damn burger flipper i could be. I am in no way ashamed of that. Had I ever refused to work and as such get welfare, I would be ashamed.
I’m 25 years out of the burger flipping business, but give me two weeks and I’ll challenge the best burger flipper out there to a contest. Only arseholes try to denigrate someone, ANYONE who does whatever it takes to earn money.
By Fred
October 12, 2008 9:03 PM | Link to this
Dear Corporal,
Can’t say I really give a fat rats a* as to what “corporal” you are referring to in an obscure manner to placate your weird feeling of superiority.
I’m thinking of a number from 1 to 10 brazzilion that equals pink and if you don’t know what it is you are a complete and utter fool……………
Yeah right. that crap has been going on since Christ was a Corporal and the only other Corporal of “historic” significance (actually the only one since Christ never was a Corporal) is that rat b******* Hitler.
but……….. well but nothing. You are a revolving arsehole. No matter which way you spin or which way someone looks at you, you are STILL an arsehole.
(God Bless our American auto snaggers that don’t catch British expletives).
By LIZ R
October 13, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this
STEVE ROSE NEEDS TO REALIZE LIKE THE REST OF USE SANDY SPRINGS IS THE NEW HOOD. DRUGS; SEX; STOLEN CARS; YOU CAN GET IT ON ROSWELL ROAD BETWEEN ABERNATHY AND JUST BEFOE THE OLD TACO MAC AT THE RIVER. TOO MANY UNRULY ROTTEN CHILDREN WHO ARE NOT SUPERVISED, TOO MANY ILLEGAL IMMIRGANTS, AND NOT ENOUGH OF ANYONE GIVING A DAMN IN THE ” BEAUTIFUL CITY OF SANDY SPRINGS!”
By Stone
October 13, 2008 8:14 PM | Link to this
LT- saw your name in the paper concerning the rapist y’all caught. Congratulations and thank you. Question: I notice that the AJC routinely omits the race of a suspect that is wanted by the police. Do you supply that information to the paper and they choose not to print it or what? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read the description of a suspect (6’2”, scar on his face, wearing jeans and a blue shirt) yet the perp’s race is omitted. Can you explain why the press routinely does this when the apprehension of the suspect should be our primary concern?
By Fred
October 14, 2008 9:29 PM | Link to this
Stone, you racist. Printing the race of a suspected is a racist behavior. I’m surprised they print the sex of the rat b******* as in YOUR politically correct weirdo world, that should be sexist.
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