Supposed ‘COVID-19 cougher’ causes tiff at Middle Georgia water park
A man who was leaving his job at Sandy Beach Water Park on Lake Tobesofkee in western Bibb County in early July told a sheriff’s deputy that he was quitting because of “concerns over COVID-19,” a sheriff’s report said.
The episode happened in the early afternoon of July 9. According to the report, the deputy was dispatched to a “disorderly conduct” incident. The man quitting claimed that a woman he worked with had recently “been to a couple of large metropolitan areas” and, the report went on, the man said he “was concerned that she may have been exposed” to the new coronavirus.
He said that as he was gathering his belongings to depart that the co-worker “blocked his path, intentionally ‘bumped into’ him, and purposely coughed in his face.” The woman later told the deputy that she “didn’t touch” the man and said the man had pushed her twice, “once with one hand and once with both hands,” the report noted. No arrests were mentioned and it was unclear whether the woman had been exposed to the virus.
Dispatches: There was a theft reported outside Ollie’s Bargain Outlet on Mercer University Drive on July 11. A 27-year-old man shopping there who said that when he was leaving, a woman was parked next to his car. The woman, 32, was someone the guy recognized, apparently a former love interest. He said he tried his best to avoid the woman but that she followed him around the parking lot, yelling, as the report put it, that “if she couldn’t have him then no one would.” The man later told the cops that as he went to put his shopping bags in his car that the woman “snatched” a book bag and a pair of sneakers “and took off.” . . . Cops were called to a Mercer University Drive hair salon on July 12. A customer had returned to complain that a stylist burned her hair, a sheriff’s report said. The customer said the stylist had shoved her as she tried to snap a picture of the salon’s business license. The salon’s owner later said the customer and the customer’s sister had “entered the business with attitudes and was demanding that (the affected sister’s) hair be redone because it was burnt and braided too tight,” the report said. The shop owner, according to the report, said she “offered to look into this matter and see what could be done,” but that the sisters were “not satisfied with that answer and became very difficult to talk with … and they stormed out.”