Brawl outside Macon barber shop began after man was slugged with trash can, cops say
A man in a parking lot outside Ollie’s Bargain Outlet was “irate” and “screaming” the other day, and he had, as a Bibb County sheriff’s report added, “a big knot on his forehead.” The angry man, 44, told a cop who’d been called to the scene at 3555 Mercer University Drive on the afternoon of Feb. 1 that another guy “jumped on me.” That other guy, 30, was, as the report put it, “also irate (and) screaming” and had a swollen lip. The second man said the older fellow and the older fellow’s girlfriend “started fighting with him.” The girlfriend “was bleeding everywhere,” the report went on, and she said she thought her nose was broken. She said she’d been punched and that another guy there had beaten up her boyfriend. The six-paragraph narrative in the sheriff’s report paints a complicated picture of what apparently went down that afternoon. There was, it seems, a lot for the deputy to sort out. The older man explained that he’d been in a barber shop in the shopping center there and stepped outside to smoke. He said it was then that the 30-year-old came out and asked for money. An argument ensued and the younger man allegedly struck the older one with a trash can. From there, the brawl was on. The alleged trash can attacker claimed that he did pick up a trash can, but only to prevent the woman, supposedly armed with a knife, from stabbing him, the report said. In the end, all three of the alleged main combatants refused medical help and were cited for fighting.
Dispatches: One morning in mid-January, a sheriff’s deputy answered a theft-of-services call at a Waffle House just south of Interstate 75 on Pio Nono Avenue in Macon. A 45-year-old man who lives in a neighborhood just up the road had reportedly ordered, eaten and refused to pay for one of the eatery’s All-Star breakfast specials, which includes a waffle, two eggs, grits and toast along with bacon, sausage or ham. His bill came to $14.23. The deputy’s report doesn’t mention why the man refused to pay, just that “he had no money.” The man was jailed on a theft charge. . . . On Jan. 8, a report of a shoplifting at the Kroger on Presidential Parkway in west Macon was said to involve a woman who had “fled the scene.” She was last seen heading toward a nearby car wash. A sheriff’s deputy caught up with the woman who had, according to a Kroger manager, bolted with a grocery cart hauling $222 worth of edible loot: frozen crab legs and shrimp. She reportedly ditched the cart when Kroger employees saw her try to slip out. The woman, 40, later informed the deputy that, as a sheriff’s report put it, “she did not take nothing … that she was just drunk.”