Georgia woman alerts cops after finding something glued to the roof of her car
When it comes to absurd things in police reports, regular readers of the Cop Shop column have no doubt seen their share. Strangeness seems to find its way into incident reports, and one such odd occurrence did just that on Sept. 27.
A young woman from Stockbridge was apparently taking a course at, of all places, the Georgia Public Safety Training Center, where law enforcement officers from around the state are schooled. Though it was unclear why exactly the woman was there, a Monroe County sheriff’s report said she returned to the parking lot to find her Nissan Altima “covered in trash and food.”
What’s more, the woman said, for reasons unknown and not noted in the write-up, someone “also glued a pizza box to the roof of her car.” A sheriff’s deputy asked the woman if she knew who might have done it and she said “she had an idea but wasn’t completely sure.”
Dispatches: A Tifton man driving north of Interstate 75 the afternoon of Sept. 14 was said to have been “very nervous” and shaking when he handed over his driver’s license after being pulled over for having an expired automobile tag. The man, whose age wasn’t noted, said the SUV he was in belonged to “a friend,” a University of Georgia volleyball player. The report said the sheriff’s deputy who stopped the man noticed “a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle.” The driver, who was traveling alone, said he had been smoking weed. The report said the cops looked in the back of the SUV and found a gray bag with “16 individual clear bags” of pot in them, and also a weighing scale. He was jailed on drug charges. . . . A woman on Hopewell Road in southern Monroe reported that her dog was attacked by a neighbor’s dog on Sept. 30. The neighbor’s dog, which the woman said had “killed her chickens and ducks before,” said the neighbor, another woman, “witnessed the whole thing and was calling her dog off, but to no avail.”