‘Confrontation’ with 82-year-old toting golf club sparks spat between Macon neighbors
On the afternoon of Nov. 16, some people who live off Bloomfield Road near Barden Elementary School in southwest Macon called the cops to complain about a woman they said had walked into their yard toting a golf club. “A confrontation ensued,” a Bibb County sheriff’s write-up noted, but it was unclear what prompted the encounter. The residents said the woman, a neighbor of theirs, had called the cops on them in the past for “loud music and loud talking,” the report said. The woman later told a sheriff’s deputy that she has “never said a word to her neighbors … and that she was never in their yard,” the report added. When the deputy informed her that he had seen a video that showed her at the edge of the neighbors’ yard, she said someone must have “doctored” the video. The deputy went on to note that he explained to the woman that he “was trying to find a way to keep things peaceful between her and her neighbors, and she advised that she was not the problem.” The woman further informed the deputy that she was 82 years old and that she was “not going to be intimidated by her neighbors or anyone else,” adding that she “walks nearly every day for her health and that every time she passes” the house where the neighbors in question live they “yell obscenities at her.” The deputy returned to the neighbors’ place after that and in the report concluded that “they were all in agreeance that there may be no possible way for the two households to get along.”
Dispatches: On Dec. 1, a woman on Thomaston Road reported that someone rummaged through her car and stole her debit card and, as a sheriff’s report noted, “her military gas mask.” . . . A clerk at a convenience store on Houston Road in south Bibb County reported on Dec. 1 that four guys who shoplifted “an unknown amount of candy,” as a sheriff’s report put it, “appeared to be high.” . . . In mid-November, a Macon man reported that while he had been in the hospital three pool cue sticks of his worth about $2,000 had been taken and sold by one of his daughter’s acquaintances. The rightful owner later tracked down the buyer at a deer-processing place and according to a sheriff’s report “received his pool sticks back and stated that he did not want to prosecute.”