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• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:00am EST
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• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:00am EST
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• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:00am EST
  by Lauren Keating

• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 9:00am EDT
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• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 9:00am EDT
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• The Blotter

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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 5:01pm EDT
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• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
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• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
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• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports [...]
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  Posted: July 17, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
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• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports [...]
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  Posted: July 10, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
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• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
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• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
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• The Blotter

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  Check out the latest Blotter. [...]
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  Posted: January 29, 2009, 5:00am EST
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• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports [...]
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  Posted: January 25, 2009, 2:00pm EST
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• The Blotter

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  Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports. [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2009, 5:00am EST
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  Don't mess with your baby mamas. [...]
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  Posted: January 08, 2009, 11:27am EST
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• The Blotter

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  "The witness [Mr. Santa Claus] noticed a black backpack left unattended for over one hour in front of the library." [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2008, 11:16am EST
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• The Blotter

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  Santa's snacktime? [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2008, 5:58pm EST
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• The Blotter

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  A woman said she got into an argument with her ex-boyfriend, nicknamed "Spiderman." [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2008, 12:09pm EST
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  At a grocery store on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, an employee said a man put several sausages in his handbag. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2008, 10:04am EST
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  Tony Romo's "bff" gets pepper-sprayed. [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2008, 4:04pm EDT
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  The sky is falling! [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2008, 1:46pm EDT
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  An old school brawl. [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2008, 10:00am EDT
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  A 69-year-old woman hosted a bridge game at her home on Beaver Falls Place. She said a bridge club partner threatened to slap her face, among other verbal threats. [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2008, 12:48pm EDT
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• The Blotter

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  An undercover officer was working a vice operation at the intersection of North and Westlake avenues... [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2008, 8:00am EDT
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• The Blotter

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  PET PEEVES: An officer responded to a 911 hang-up call on Woodland Avenue. [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2008, 1:27pm EDT
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• The Blotter

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  THE INCARCERATION OF MIMI: Police got a tip that a woman with the street name “Mimi” might be selling drugs from a motel room on Metropolitan Parkway. So police went to the motel room and knocked on the door. A woman opened the door, and she was holding a [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2008, 4:01pm EDT
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• The Blotter

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  RIVERDANCE REJECT? Around 4 p.m., a middle-aged man was allegedly waving a wooden cross at passing cars at the intersection of Freedom Parkway and Boulevard. Police ordered him to leave. So he left. Apparently, this wannabe performer was not to be stifled. About three hours later, the man returned to [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2008, 10:48am EDT
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• The Blotter

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  DETERMINED BOOZE HOUND: At a nightclub on Alco Street, the manager said someone knocked a hole in the roof, dropped down through the hole and stole $4,200 worth of alcohol during the night. “It appeared the suspects used a cinder block, knife, fiberglass-handled hammer (this item broke during the incident) [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2008, 8:00am EDT
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• The Blotter

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  PARTY GIRL: An officer dealt with a 23-year-old woman passed out in the back of a car at Collier and Peachtree roads. The woman’s friend said they had been drinking at a concert venue on West Peachtree Street and at some point, the 23-year-old woman got very sick, so they [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2008, 9:46am EDT
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• The Blotter

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  STORAGE CHEST: Around 9:30 a.m., an officer talked to two women on Pine Street. The officer asked one woman for her name. “When she started speaking, she bent over to fix her shoes and when she did, I could clearly see a clear bag with a lot of suspected crack [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2008, 8:00am EDT
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• The Blotter

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  NOT SO PRETTY IN PINK: One afternoon, a 34-year-old New Orleans woman was arrested for DUI and other charges after a car accident on Ponce de Leon Avenue. Inside the patrol car, the woman repeatedly kicked the door and said she badly needed to go to the bathroom. An officer [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2008, 10:28am EDT
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• The Blotter

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  “E” AIN’T SO EASY: At an apartment complex on Dixie Hills Circle, a woman apparently had a run-in with a man called “E.” According to the officer’s written report, the woman said he “wanted to conversate [sic] with her about a plant … which she told him she had no [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2008, 2:54pm EDT
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  Tray Butler MARSUPIAL MANEUVERS: At a grocery store on Joseph E. Boone Boulevard, the owner said a customer came in and threatened to harm his merchandise. According to the police report, a clerk said the customer “put a dead animal [a possum] on the countertop in front of the cash register [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2008, 3:10pm EDT
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  GEORGIA BULLDOG WOOFED? A 60-year-old man said he left his car with the valet service at Phipps Plaza and went inside to eat at a restaurant. He said he left his key chain, which has a silver-and-jeweled bulldog on it, in his car. After the meal, the man said he [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2008, 6:32pm EDT
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• Tough night at the bar

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  Around 1 a.m., a manager asked an officer to remove a 43-year-old man from a bar on North Highland Avenue in Virginia-Highland. He said staffers had repeatedly asked the man to leave, but he refused. The officer told the man to go, and “he grabbed my wrist and turned around, [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2008, 12:00pm EST
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• Never too old to party

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  Around 11 p.m. on Peachtree Street, a 66-year-old man stumbled off the curb and directly into oncoming traffic, an officer noted. The driver of a black van slammed on its brakes to avoid hitting the man. The 66-year-old was very drunk, and his breath smelled like gin, the officer noted. [...]
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  Posted: February 07, 2008, 5:04am EST
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• Geek grief

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  A man said someone broke into his 1991 blue Honda Accord while it was parked outside his home on Milledge Avenue. He said his car doors were unlocked, and someone stole about 20 books on gaming, “specifically Dungeons and Dragons,” from his car trunk, the officer wrote. The man is [...]
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  Posted: February 03, 2008, 12:00pm EST
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• Do you hear what I hear?

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  A possible kidnapping victim contacted police. The 34-year-old man said he finished his job working at the stadium for an Atlanta Falcons game, and he went to cash his paycheck. He said around 2 a.m., three men jumped him, threw him into a truck and beat him until he was [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2007, 5:09am EST
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• A holly jolly Christmas

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  On Holly Street, a 47-year-old man said “Butch” approached him and they argued. (Butch is his ex-girlfriend’s new man.) Then, he said, his ex-girlfriend snuck up behind him with a hammer and struck his face. He said his ex-girlfriend took his wallet, which contained $100 cash and his ID. Medics [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2007, 12:00pm EST
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• �Tis the season to quit smoking pot

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  An officer was patrolling Springdale Road. He said a man came up to his patrol car and said, “Boo!” The officer asked: “Do you have any illegal drugs on you?” “No,” the man said. The officer asked: “Can I search you?” “Yes,” the man said. So the officer searched him [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2007, 5:04am EST
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• �Tis the season to find bad Santa

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  A security guard said a patient escaped from Grady Memorial Hospital. Initially, the male patient was admitted to Grady’s psychiatric ward, but he was moved to another floor for observation. “[The patient] was supposed to be monitored by Grady security,” the officer wrote. “[The patient] removed his restraints and left [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2007, 12:03pm EST
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• Hitting a sour note

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  A woman said she was carrying her daughter’s band instrument (a saxophone) when she stopped to buy some marijuana at a drug dealer’s house. She said the next day, she realized she had left the saxophone at the drug dealer’s house. So she went back to get it. She said [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2007, 6:00am EST
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• Holy terror?

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  A 29-year-old woman said she works as an administrative assistant at a synagogue on Ponce de Leon Avenue. She said she talked to her boss, a rabbi, because she hadn’t been paid the money owed for doing her job. She said the rabbi got agitated and said he no longer [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2007, 12:00pm EST
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• Tom wants to visit

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  A man said he and his wife went to bed around 10 p.m. Shortly after midnight, he said he heard someone knocking on the guest bedroom door. He asked: “Who’s there?” The suspect replied: “It’s Tom Foolery.” The man said he didn’t know Tom Foolery. The suspect replied, “It’s me, [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2007, 5:00am EST
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• Direction unknown

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  An officer saw a driver make an illegal turn onto East Paces Ferry Road. “The [car] then pulled into my lane going the wrong way,” the officer wrote. He said the car stopped about 10 feet in front of his patrol car, and the female driver got out and flagged [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2007, 12:00pm EST
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• Quest for peace, love and red meat

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  At a grocery store on Ponce de Leon Avenue, a 32-year-old man allegedly took two strip steaks (worth $27.14) and tried to leave the store without paying. He ran, but security guards stopped him. The man wore khaki shorts and has “Fuck Dem Pigs” tattooed on both arms. He was [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2007, 5:00am EST
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• Football and home turf wars

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  On Ashby Terrace, a 54-year-old man said he was watching football when his live-in girlfriend got mad because he was watching TV. According to the man, she said: “You better turn off that television or else I’ll mess you up.” He said she had been drinking large amounts of alcoholic [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2007, 12:00pm EST
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• Bizarre bar scene of the week

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  A woman walked into a bar on North Avenue and told employees she was being followed and she was afraid. She had an IV on her arm and a heart monitor. A police officer asked: “What’s going on?” “She said she left Crawford Long Hospital because her boyfriend poisoned her [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2007, 5:00am EST
  by Lauren Keating

• The hullabaloo within

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  At an apartment complex on Piedmont Avenue, a security guard said a man with a handgun was threatening to shoot him. Several Atlanta police units arrived and arrested the man, age 36. The security guard said the man came into his apartment and threatened to shoot him if he didn’t [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2007, 12:00pm EST
  by Lauren Keating