Lollipops calm children but they also apparently calmed large, mentally disturbed men who are armed with a razor.
According to the Macon Telegraph, police were called to an apartment complex on Gray Highway Thursday night by a worker who had gone to check on a 38-year-old patient from the River Edge mental health facility. The man, described as 6-foot-4 and weighing more than 350 pounds, had become violent and the social worker couldn't calm him.
First the patient hit an officer in the left hand with a broom and then he threatened him with a razor, according to the news story.
The patient became even more agitated when another officer, armed with a Taser, got to the Overlook Gardens Apartments.
Then one of the officers remembered the lollipops in his patrol car. The man agreed to swap his razor for a handful of suckers.
The patient, finally calmed, was taken to The Medical Center of Central Georgia for treatment.
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