Police (Off)Beat | 4 bottles more than enough

A man slumped over the steering wheel of a damaged car parked near the airport was awakened by an Atlanta police officer and said he'd been drinking. Then he went right back to sleep. The cop pulled the man and four bottles of whiskey out of the car. The man napped alongside the road until the paddy wagon arrived.
A visitor to a Roswell Road Kroger was found lying on the floor of the bathroom with four bottles of cheap, stolen wine.
A man returned a car riddled with bullet holes to an Atlanta Avis location. Avis told police the man tried to hide the damage by replacing a window and covering holes in the roof and headliner.
A Bartow County man working on a boat with a family member got angry and began swinging a drill around his head by the power cord, threatening to strike the other man. But, the cord got wrapped around his neck and the drill nailed him on the forehead, ending the violence.
A Sandy Springs store reported the theft of several cartons of cigarettes and 30 boxes of nicotine gum.
A dad visiting a Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway fast-food restaurant with his 5-year-old son was shocked when his child found razor blades and what appeared to be crack cocaine sitting on a table. A police officer arrived and after a short investigation the crack turned out to be paint shavings scraped from the restaurant window.
A Peachtree-DeKalb resident let her ex-boyfriend borrow her cellphone but he ran off with it and refuses to give it back.
Two male motorists on I-285 pulled over at Northside Drive to beat each other up, according to Sandy Springs police.
A Marietta man is accused of stealing sheets of stainless steel from Marietta Recycling. He was caught when he returned to the premises an hour later and asked what he could get for the purloined plates as scrap.
A man in the Cobb County courthouse who slapped a woman and told her "I'll kill you" was immediately arrested.
A warrant accuses a Smyrna man of using a handgun to steal $5 from a resident of Keeneland Farms apartments.
A Mableton man was spotted walking down Clay Road at night, carrying a cooler. A Cobb County police officer asked him where he was headed and the man said "home." The officer asked where home was and the man pointed in the opposite direction. After checking his pockets and the cooler, the officer found two stolen credit cards, a video game system, a 6-disc CD player and a MP3 player. He was also carrying a cordless drill, a screwdriver and flashlight, which police said were used to break into homes.