Mother’s Day stress prompts man to whack people with sticks, Georgia cops say
On Mother’s Day morning just before 9, a sheriff’s deputy in Monroe County was sent to check on a domestic dispute. An incident report of the May 10 episode said a man in his late 20s was “trying to hit people with sticks.” A woman at the scene said the stick-toting suspect had walked off, but the cops caught up with him along Old Rumble Road nearby. It was there that the man informed a pair of sheriff’s deputies that he was, as the report put it, “just stressed due to it being Mother’s Day and that he had lost his mother.” When the deputies asked the man about swinging sticks at people, he “admitted to swinging a stick at his brother,” the report said, but that he didn’t hit his brother. The man was taken back to the residence where the trouble apparently began. A woman there said the alleged stick-swinger “was mad about his cat going outside.” She told the cops that the man had “balled his fist in her face and that she felt threatened.” The man and his brother then got into it. The brother said the alleged stick-swinger was armed with a “stick of PVC pipe.” After another witness said she had seen the alleged troublemaker threaten a woman there with his fist, the stick-swinger was jailed on a disorderly conduct charge.
Dispatches: In early April, Monroe sheriff’s deputies were sent to handle an “animal complaint” at a house on Morgan Road. A woman reported, as a sheriff’s report noted, that two dogs had “attacked her chihuahua.” . . . A Grubhub delivery driver was dropping off food at a house on Edge Road in Monroe County the evening of April 27. The driver, 21, later told a sheriff’s deputy that as she walked into the garage, someone at the house opened a door. She said the family’s dog, a schnauzer named Maggie, “ran up to her and bit her right leg,” an incident report said. The driver said she delivered the food and called 911 to file a report. She declined medical help for what was described as “a small laceration … below her knee.” The dog’s owners told the deputy that they had requested “contactless delivery” and just wanted the food left on their porch. They said, as the report noted, “Maggie is usually not aggressive.”