The Blotter: Scattered, smothered, and chunked

A 68-year-old man acted wacky at a Waffle House near Buckhead. Several employees said the man repeatedly walked behind the counter and took whatever food he wanted. “When he was confronted, he started yelling and cursing,” a cop noted. “[He] was yelling that he owns Waffle House and he has the right to do whatever he wants.”

During his scattered performance, the man declared, “I’m going to jail today.” Not a problem. The cop arrested the 68-year-old man and carted him away.

Holy cow

A 64-year-old man walked into a Downtown grocery store, and as he headed for the checkout line, the store manager grabbed an off-duty cop and said the older man had stolen food in his pants. “When I walked to approach the male he had gotten out of line and hid around the corner by the magazine rack,” the cop noted. “I observed the male pulling a package of meat out of his pants.”

The cop asked the man what else he had. After a pause, the man “advised that he had the package of oxtails stuffed in his pants and an onion that he was going to pay for,” the cop noted. “The package of oxtails was completely damaged from being stuffed down [his] pants.” (The Blotter Diva wonders: How does a package of meat get “completely damaged” inside someone’s pants? Wait. I don’t want to know.)

The 64-year-old man went to jail, charged with shoplifting $30 worth of oxtail meat in his pants.

Cat fight!

Three older women brawled at their workplace in East Point. The first woman, 61, heard a bunch of intercom pages for a female co-worker. She went downstairs to the employee break room, found the co-worker, and mentioned the intercom pages. The co-worker alledgedly became verbally aggressive, cursing and calling the 61-year-old names.

The 61-year-old’s response was also less than mature. She told the co-worker that her “mother was a hoe” and then she stormed away from the break room. The co-worker huddled with her female relative who was also an employee and told her about the clash. They decided to start taunting the 61-year-old. “Both of them in passing would threaten to have people come to the job and beat her butt,” a cop noted.

Days later, the workplace hosted a special employee dinner in the break room. The 61-year-old woman arrived late and helped herself to some food. “While she fixed her food, she heard [the co-worker] yell to her that she could only have one of each item, instead of the two sandwiches and chicken wings she had on her plate,” a cop noted. Initially, the 61-year-old woman ignored her co-worker. Then a supervisor showed up and said that every employee is allowed only one of each food item. So the 61-year-old returned one sandwich to the buffet table. The co-worker and relative started yelling that nobody wanted that “shit” after she “put her hands on it.” The 61-year-old dropped her food on the table and said she didn’t want any food. Then she marched upstairs to finish her shift.

Later, the 61-year-old went downstairs to the workstation where employees clock out. Her nemesis co-worker and relative were there, waiting. The co-worker screamed that the 61-year-old really needed to grow up. The relative said, “I’m off the clock now. I can beat your butt.”

Soon, the three women were scuffling and fighting on the floor. After the brawl ended, the co-worker and relative dashed away to find a supervisor. The 61-year-old said her boss refused to allow her to call police because he wanted to handle the matter internally. Her boss reportedly told her to take a week off while they conducted an investigation. Almost a month later, the 61-year-old said she was fired for violating company policy. She wants a police report to take to her unemployment hearing.

Stupid move of the week

Four guys in their mid-20s were training to become Atlanta firefighters — yet protecting their own cars seemed problematic. Recently, the four men went to the Atlanta Fire Department training center in South Atlanta and parked their cars in a public lot. A strange car pulled in and parked near the trainees’ cars. The strange car’s hood was open, showing its engine. Whatever. The four men walked away and headed to their training class, leaving their cars in vulnerable conditions: Three of the trainees left their car doors unlocked and the fourth trainee’s car had a cracked window, so it was easy to reach inside.

Hours later, the firefighter trainees returned to their cars and realized they’d been robbed. Stolen from the first trainee’s unlocked car was his wedding ring (worth $500) and his wallet. Swiped from second trainee’s unlocked car was a video-recorder, a Smith & Wesson handgun, and his wallet and cellphone. The third trainee’s car was missing a Ruger gun and wallet. The fourth trainee lost the least: Only his wallet was missing from the unlocked car. No suspects.

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