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Naked, cursing Georgia man caught outside house asks cop ‘Who the hell are you?’

A sheriff’s deputy was called to a subdivision in southern Monroe County the morning of Oct. 14 about a suspicious person. The person, it turned out, was more than suspicious — he was naked. The disrobed man, 78, was at a house on Kentucky Downs Drive. It was unclear why he was in the buff.

An incident report just noted that when the deputy arrived, the man was “standing naked in a pile of broken glass at the back door, yelling and cursing for someone to open the door.”

The deputy ordered the man to the ground, reportedly prompting the unclothed fellow to ask, “Who the hell are you?” The man was soon handcuffed and led to a patrol car. He was charged with disorderly conduct, public indecency and trespassing.

The deputy then talked to another man, 71, the owner of the house, who said the naked guy, an acquaintance, had begun “to holler around 3 a.m.” and gone on hollering for half an hour. Then he “started back yelling at 7 a.m.,” the report said, “and went on for about 15 minutes.”

It was not mentioned in the write-up how the men knew each other.

The homeowner said that at about 9 a.m., he noticed the birthday-suited man on his property, pounding on a door, yelling for someone to open up. The homeowner told him to leave, but the man was said to have gone around “to the back door and punched the glass out, then used a flower pot to break the rest of the glass.”

The homeowner he called 911 and later mentioned that the naked man had “terrorized” him “for a long time now, and he wishes (the man) would stop.”

Dispatches: A man on Red Creek Road in northwestern Monroe County recently told a sheriff’s deputy that a neighbor of his “has been harassing him for 11 years.” The man said the neighbor mounted a surveillance camera on a tree “aimed toward” the man’s house, and the man “was upset due to the camera being pointed in the direction of his driveway.” The deputy explained to the man that the neighbor was allowed to have a camera “on his own property.” . . . A man on Shady Dale Drive, which runs north of Ga. Highway 74 in south Monroe County near the Bibb County line, told a sheriff’s deputy on Oct. 14 that he had hired a guy to clear some land for $3,000. The guy who was hired cleared the land but left a pile of trees “in the middle of” the man’s field, a sheriff’s report said. The land-clearer reportedly said he would return to pick up the tree pile but never did. When the land owner called to ask when the guy when he would be back, the guy said he couldn’t come because he was in jail.

Joe Kovac Jr.
The Telegraph
Joe Kovac Jr. writes about local news and features for The Telegraph, with an eye for human-interest stories. Joe is a Warner Robins native and graduate of Warner Robins High. He joined the Telegraph in 1991 after graduating from the University of Georgia. As a Pulliam Fellowship recipient in 1991, Joe worked for the Indianapolis News. His stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the Seattle Times and Atlanta Magazine. He has been a Livingston Award finalist and won numerous Georgia Press Association and Georgia Associated Press awards.
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