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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Weird Police News: People Imperiled by Brooms, Bullets, Chemicals and Cutters

This holiday, let's all thank our law enforcement officers for dealing with this stuff.

It's Thanksgiving week, but holiday season doesn't slow down unusual criminal behavior. Snatching, shouting and shooting continue. A man asked another man if he could borrow his bike at a Sonic drive-in in unincorporated Norcross. The bike owner said yes, and now there's a new bike owner. A television has a new owner after it was swiped from a church in Bogart. Somebody forced a door open at Bogart Christian Church and made off with a flat-screen TV. Another man in Norcross succeeded in a snatching, but he didn't get the bag he wanted. When he demanded a woman's purse, she gave him her lunchbox instead. So there is such a thing as a free lunch. An Athens employee found something he didn't like in his lunch -- a trace of cleaning agent in …

Friday, July 13, 2012

Food Crimes of Passion

Don't mess with a man's cheeseburger in North Georgia and more strange police news.

A man learned the hard way that you can't exchange your half-eaten double cheeseburger for a McDouble at the Winder McDonald's. When he tried, police said, he used a lot of profanity, upsetting employees and customers. So he was charged with disorderly conduct. Also in Winder, a man reported a rack of ribs stolen after a domestic dispute with his girlfriend. The melee also resulted in missing liquor, smeared beans and broken eyeglasses. A domestic dispute in Dacula led to a man's claim that the woman who used to live with him has been stealing his mail since he threatened to evict her. She's also alleged to have called him a "bad person." A silver pitcher, a China plate and some coins were among the missing items after a family left their …

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