Snake in shower at party and other ‘strange things’ prompt Georgia woman’s call to cops
The snake in the shower was but one of her worries. There were other, as an incident report would note, “strange things” happening at her house that led a Monroe County woman to call the sheriff’s department. It was mid-April when the woman, who lives on Harrison Road not far from Interstate 75 and Bolingbroke, reported the trouble which she said had been going on for weeks.
At a birthday party for her daughter, the woman explained, she and her guests were outside most of the day. But she said doors at the house were unlocked and that anyone could have gone in. At some point, the woman said she had gone upstairs to the bathroom to find a black rat snake in the shower.
The snake had apparently been removed by the time the deputy arrived. But the woman at the house later explained that “there was no way the snake just got into the shower” because the enclosure is “really tall and it couldn’t climb that far up,” the report said. The woman went on to say “there were also strange things and damage in the crawl space upstairs. … (She) advised that nails had been removed from an area.”
She also said there was mud in the crawl space as if from someone’s boots and that on another occasion there was a random belt buckle found in the doorway of the crawl space. The woman suspected an ex-husband who in the past has done “strange things and left ‘calling cards’ for her,” the report said. She mentioned hearing noises in the crawl space, including scratching and footsteps in the night. The deputy’s report suggested the culprit or culprits may be small critters.
“I also looked in the shower where the snake had been,” the deputy wrote. “The shower wall had what looked like the shape of a snake crawling behind it. The shape looked like a snake could have possibly been trapped behind the shower wall and caused the damage.” The deputy told the woman to call the sheriff’s office again if “she heard the scratching or footsteps during the night again.”
Dispatches: A break-in at a Family Dollar store on Emery Highway the other day in east Macon was discovered when a clerk showed up for work and noticed, as Bibb County sheriff’s officials said in a statement, “the front window was missing.” Footage from a security camera revealed that the burglar tried to bust into a cigarette cabinet but failed. Instead, he swiped “several large boxes of M&M and Reese’s candy” worth more than $300. . . . On April 17, a man riding a motorcycle on Taylor Road off Ga. 87 in eastern Monroe County reported that “a large Rottweiler” chased him and almost made him crash. The dog’s name wasn’t mentioned in a sheriff’s report but its owner said it was unusual for the dog to do that as it “is not aggressive” and “just barks at loud vehicles.”