The Blotter: Furry frenzy

A cop received a call about a possible dispute with a weapon at a fast-food restaurant on Metropolitan Parkway. “Upon my arrival, [the fast-food restaurant] employees [pointed] to a 27-year-old in the store wearing a red Papa John’s uniform and a fuzzy hat in the shape of an animal,” a cop noted. “He was shouting at the employees for calling the police on him.”

Earlier, the same cop had responded to two earlier calls from same restaurant, including one from the man in the fuzzy hat himself, who claimed that a woman was trying to kill herself at [the fast-food restaurant], “although we were never able to locate anyone actively trying to commit suicide,” the cop noted.

The cops told the man to calm down, but the man “began to yell at me and shouted, ‘They are conspiring against me! It’s a set up! Why didn’t Grady get her?’”

The cop handcuffed the man for safety purposes, noting, “He stated that the items on the table were his evidence that his ex-girlfriend, who is an employee at [the fast-food restaurant], and her manager were trying to set him up. The items he claimed were evidence included two Xbox 360 games, his house phone, his son’s walkie-talkie, two sets of keys, a jacket that the man said belonged to a “big ole swole kid,” chapstick, his cellphone, and his wallet.

The cop asked the man how these items counted as evidence. The man replied, “It’s all there!” “He said his ex-girlfriend was trying to commit suicide and Grady needed to take her away,” the cop noted.

Suddenly, the man in the fuzzy hat blurted, “Officer, I don’t feel so good. I need Grady.” He claimed to be fainting, and began to lie down on the floor. Then he got up and leaned his head on a table.

The cop called for medics. “While waiting on medics, the man stood up again and began yelling at his ex-girlfriend in the middle of the lobby,” the cop wrote. “He shouted at her, ‘Are you going to suck me or fuck me?’ in front of others in the restaurant.” The cop ordered the man to sit down.

The man’s ex-girlfriend agreed to talk to police, but she refused to give her last name. She said the man in the fuzzy hat has come into the fast-food restaurant for the past three days harassing her and the customers because they recently broke up.

Medics examined the man, who refused to go to a hospital. “I got you,” he shouted. “Something is coming, I got you. You took my job away from my kids.”

At this point, the cop arrested the man for disorderly conduct and took him to jail. The man asked that all his belongings and “evidence” be left with his ex-girlfriend because she would give his evidence to his grandmother.

Disgruntled former employee

In the heart of Buckhead Village, a 37-year-old man became unruly at his former place of employment. The man was fired in December 2014, and apparently still holds a grudge. The former employee was wearing a black sweat suit and neon yellow sneakers “with a hair-pick sitting in his hair.” The man asked if two of his former co-workers were in office, but both were not there. The ex-employee slammed his business card and room key on a table, yelling, “They know where to find me.” The ex-employee pointed his middle finger at his former manager and left.

The ex-employee was staying at a Buckhead luxury hotel about a block away. A cop went to the luxury hotel and inquired about the ex-employee’s room number. A front-desk clerk said the ex-employee was staying there but caused a disturbance when he checked in. Apparently, the ex-employee became “loud with the concierge and staff and accused them of being racist because the concierge said, ‘Hello, sir, are you ready to check in?’” the cop noted. The hotel manager said the ex-employee would receive a refund, and insisted that he leave immediately.

The cop went to the ex-employee’s hotel room for a little chat. “[The ex-employee] stated that he was going to blow the whistle on a very sensitive subject and [a former co-worker] was involved, so he wanted to speak with him,” the cop noted. “He further stated that an unknown person has been following him and he has been getting threats so that’s why he drove from Texas to Atlanta.”

The ex-employee was escorted from his hotel room and received his refund. The cop gave the man a trespassing warning and told him to stay far away from his former office.

Don’t freak out

Outside Atlanta City Jail, a 32-year-old man allegedly started acting weird and refused to leave the area in front of the jail. A cop walked over to the man and ordered him to scram. “He refused and advised he was high on ‘crack cocaine’ and he believed that someone was out to get him,” the cop noted. “[The man] was noticeably paranoid and could not comprehend any questions I was asking him. [He] in fact seemed to be under the influence of some narcotic drug. [The man] then began to act in a violent ... manner, by running into traffic and throwing punches in the air as if he was striking someone.”

The cop arrested the Decatur man and charged him with disorderly conduct and took him to jail.

The Blotter Diva’s helpful hint: If you want to ingest paranoia-inducing drugs, don’t hang out in front of a jail. Just a thought.

Items in the Blotter are taken from actual Atlanta police reports. The Blotter Diva compiles them and puts them into her own words.