Detroit man compares self to Little Richard during DUI stop in Georgia
A Monroe County sheriff’s deputy was recently called to assist in a case involving a drunken-driving suspect on the north side of Forsyth. The driver, a 38-year-old Detroit man, was at the wheel of a 2007 Chevy Impala.
He had been stopped near Interstate 75 on the afternoon of May 15. The driver, according to an incident report, was wobbly on his feet, had bloodshot eyes and “seemed very disoriented.” He said he was bound for Florida but wasn’t sure why he had pulled off the freeway.
The deputy described seeing “several” bottles of Heineken beer on the floorboard in the man’s car. The man was then said to have told the deputy that he could not perform any roadside sobriety tests because “he suffered from the same medical condition Little Richard has.”
It wasn’t clear what the driver was referring to in mentioning the Macon-born singing star, who had died a few days earlier. Upon refusing to take breath or blood tests, the man was jailed on a DUI-refusal charge.
Dispatches: One night in mid-May, a man on Ga. 87 near Forsyth told the cops that his 2014 Hyundai Sonata had run out of gas. He said he had no money and that his cellphone didn’t work. The man said he walked up to a nearby house with an apparent plan to get gas money. He said he intended to sell a hand truck that he seems to have had in his car. The people who live there were not interested in a hand truck, as a sheriff’s report noted. A man in the house stepped out and told the guy to “get the (expletive) off his property.” The hand truck peddler later admitted to throwing the hand truck in the yard because he “was frustrated.” The deputy called a tow truck for the man’s car and gave him a lift to town. . . . In mid-April, a Monroe County woman called the sheriff’s department to report that her grandson’s girlfriend, as an incident report put it, “had destroyed several items on her property.” A list of the damage included two patio tables, five or six patio chairs hurled into a dumpster and the destruction of more than a dozen potted plants. “The pots that the plants were in were broken all over the yard,” the sheriff’s report said, adding that the grandson’s girlfriend “has gotten upset and ‘showed out’ on several occasions.”