The Blotter: Walk the line

In Ansley Park, two female neighbors had an argument about the property line dividing their homes on 17th Street. Neighbor No. 1, a 47-year-old woman, called a surveyor to her home to resolve the ongoing dispute. When the surveyor arrived, Neighbor No. 2, a 64-year-old woman, walked outside and started yelling at the surveyor, and “was displaying very irate and unstable behavior,” a cop noted.

Neighbor No. 2 said she was “too nervous to go back home” so the cop agreed to meet her at a nearby gas station on Peachtree Street to hear her side of the story. Neighbor No. 2’s rant about the dispute “went on for almost an hour,” the cop noted. “During that conversation and the conversation this Officer has had in the past [with the same woman] I was able to determine that she is the primary issue in the dispute and is the problem.”

Neighbor No. 2 made previous threats to contractors working on her neighbor’s home. Also, Neighbor No. 2 currently “had a Halloween decoration with a tombstone and some orange cones facing the front door of her neighbor’s property,” the cop observed. “This is an example of some of the small things that she is doing to harass her neighbor.”

The cop issued a stern warning to Neighbor No. 2 to not have any contact with her neighbor.

Shower scum

In Midtown, a 51-year-old man said he let a stranger into his 10th Street apartment and allowed the stranger to take a shower. The man’s roommate was outside on the porch while the stranger was in the shower. After the shower, the stranger reportedly stole the roommate’s iPhone and the 51-year-old man’s MacBook. In an unusual move, both roommates said “they didn’t know if they wanted to press charges,” a cop noted. They did want a police report, however, for insurance purposes.

Vegan thieves

Two guys broke into a local discount meat shop through a hole in the roof. The two guys lowered themselves “through a whole (sic) caused from a previous burglary that had not been fixed,” a cop noted. “After making entry, the males grabbed plastic plates and plastic cups and exited the location the same way they entered.” The entire incident was captured on surveillance camera.

That’s right: Two guys robbed a meat shop, but only stole plastic cups and plates.

Roadrunner’s last call

In Old Fourth Ward, a woman was driving along Ralph McGill Boulevard when she witnessed an accident. A large rental truck slammed into a parked white pickup truck and kept going. Thankfully, no one was inside the white pickup truck at the time of the accident. The woman said the rental-truck driver “did not correct his driving” after hitting the pickup truck and then drove into a building, causing a wall to collapse.

The woman parked her car, approached the rental-truck driver and asked if he was OK. No answer. Eventually, the driver, a 47-year-old man, said he was fine and then attempted a bizarre exit. “She said the male then tried to climb out of the passenger-side window and fell,” a cop noted. “A nice guy tried to help him up. After that, she said the driver didn’t seem to want to answer anyone’s questions and got agitated. All parties became agitated and the driver said he was calling his boss. He went to call his boss and stated he wouldn’t run and then the driver took off running.”

The guy who owned the white pickup truck saw the whole thing go down. He sprinted after the rogue driver, tackled him, and held him down until police arrived.

Finally, the rogue driver admitted what happened. He said he dropped his cell phone while driving, leaned over to grab it, and slammed into the white truck. A cop noted, “He said he tried to correct but couldn’t control the truck and smashed into a wall, causing it to collapse.”

While the cop was doing paperwork, the rental-truck driver passed out in a police van. “I gave him a sternum rub and the male quickly became alert and conscious,” the cop noted. While searching the rental-truck driver’s bookbag, the cop found a possible clue to his condition: an empty bottle of vodka.

It gets worse: The rental-truck driver had been banned from driving awhile back. His driver’s license was suspended long before his drive of destruction.

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