Father-son fight over Burger King breakfast leads to hurled jack handle
On the morning of July 11, there was, as a Bibb sheriff’s report described it, “an argument over a Burger King breakfast.” The dustup was said to have ended with the handle of an automobile tire jack “being thrown at the victim.”
A Felton Avenue man, 61, said he and his son, 36, had gone to Burger King to get food. The father and son had wheeled up to the pickup window. The father said the son had started to pull away without all the food. An argument ensued. The son said everything was in the first bag they’d been handed.
But then the cashier handed out another bag with the rest of the pair’s order. The father later said the son “does not like to be proven wrong” and that they continued fussing. The father said the son kicked him out of the car on Ell Street south of downtown Macon. The father was walking home when the son returned “with a handle to a car jack” and threw it at the father, the sheriff’s report said.
The handle missed hitting the father, who didn’t press charges because the son “had just got out of prison.”
Dispatches: A man in Monroe County told a sheriff’s deputy that on July 1 he found a puppy on the side of Riverview Road. The man, 26, said he went to a house nearby to see if the dog lived there. A man at the house answered the door and the guy who’d found the pooch said, “Is this your puppy? I wanted to return it.” It was then that resident supposedly “struck” the visitor in the face, a sheriff’s report said. “I hit you,” the resident apparently said, “because you were leaning in on me, and I felt threatened.” It was unclear from the write-up whether the dog belonged there. . . . A man from Coffee County was at the Dollar Tree store on Forsyth Road in north Macon on July 9 where, according to employees, he was “yelling and cussing.” A sheriff’s report said one worker told how the man, 63, threatened to beat her and kill another employee. It wasn’t clear what may have set the man off. A Bibb deputy caught up with the guy at the nearby Fresh Market grocery store, where the man was said to have begun yelling at the deputy, screaming “unintelligible words.” He was jailed on charges of making terroristic threats.