Your best speeding excuse? Woman tells GA cop she’s in rush to catch plane — in Miami
On a summer morning, a woman heading south on Interstate 75 in a white Honda Civic was pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy a few miles north of Forsyth.
The woman was said to have been going 86 miles an hour in a 70-mph zone. Upon stopping the woman, the Monroe County deputy noticed, as he wrote in a report, that the driver’s hands “and body were shaking extremely fast.”
After handing over her driver’s license, the woman, according to the deputy’s write-up, “demanded me to give (it) back to her and for me to let her go.” She was then informed that she was being cited for speeding and again insisted she be let go.
“Because,” as the woman reportedly put it, “she was on the way to Miami to catch a flight to Moscow.”
After some pills were found in the car in a bottle with “some type of substance crushed up inside,” the woman, who allegedly continued to resist, was jailed on obstruction charges in the July 1 encounter.
The report said she “kept repeating, ‘Let me go, I need to go to Miami.” Because of her agitated state, she was taken to a county hospital “to be evaluated,” the report added.
Dispatches: In mid-July, a Bibb County sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to a pawn shop in east Macon “in reference to,” as a report noted, “an altercation.” A woman who works at the pawn shop said another woman, a customer, had thrown something at her after accusing the worker of having sex with her husband. . . . On July 10, cops were sent to a tire shop on Houston Avenue in Macon about a reported theft. A shirtless man in blue jeans had wheeled up in a pickup to get a tire. A tire shop employee got the man a tire and put it on a rim and pumped it up. The employee hoisted the wheel in the bed of the man’s truck while the man was sitting in the cab waiting. The customer, who according to the report goes by the nickname “Tree Man,” then told the shop worker to “back up,” and that’s when he drove off without paying.