Tree cutter cited for relieving himself in front of Macon man’s house
On the afternoon of Nov. 19, a Bibb County sheriff’s deputy answered a call on Hawkinsville Road about a reported case of indecent exposure. It was there, near Allen Road, that the deputy spoke to a 25-year-old man who works for a tree-cutting service. The man said he had opened some panel doors on his boom truck, apparently to conceal himself as he relieved himself, and then stood with his back to a nearby house and with the truck between himself and passing cars. “As he was urinating,” the deputy’s report said, “he heard a male yell at him. … He immediately stopped urinating, secured his pants, and turned around. He stated he never exposed himself to the residents of the home.” The deputy then spoke to the man who’d reported the matter. That man, 51, said he was sitting in his living room with his 3-year-old granddaughter when he saw the boom truck stop out front. “He saw the male open two panel doors and begin to urinate on his property. He realized his granddaughter was watching so he yelled at the male who turned around and exposed his genitals to him,” the deputy’s write-up said, noting that the grandfather averted his granddaughter’s eyes an instant before the man turned to face them. The report said video footage of the episode, possibly from a security camera, showed the tree worker using the bathroom and turning as the grandfather had described. The tree worker was cited for indecent exposure after the grandfather said he didn’t want the guy arrested, the report said, “but did want him held accountable.”
Dispatches: A woman who left her 2008 Dodge Magnum at a shade-tree mechanic’s place on Capitol Avenue in Macon in mid-November was asked by her cousin sometime after that whether she had picked up her car. A sheriff’s report said the woman had not retrieved the car, but that the mechanic was curious because “the mechanic could not find it.” . . . On Nov. 23, a reported shoplifting at the Dollar General on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Macon was noted in a sheriff’s write-up. It seemed that a man in an Army jacket was said to have concealed a $1.99 bag of cotton balls beneath his clothes and driven off in a pink Ford pickup. According to the sheriff’s report, a clerk said she knew the man swiped the cotton balls because the bag “was sticking out of his shirt.”