The Blotter: The ultimate bad dream June 06 2007

A person was screaming inside an apartment on Monroe Drive. A police officer arrived. There was a nude man in the apartment, the officer noted, along with blood smears all over the walls, and broken glass and furniture thrown on the floor. The nude man, age 43, said he’d had a nightmare and broken out the bedroom window. The man didn’t know the day, date or month. There was a large cut on the palm of his right hand. The officer determined the man was on some type of drug. Medics arrived and took him to a hospital. The officer looked around the apartment some more: The bed was upside down and the refrigerator was unplugged. The water heater was damaged and water had leaked onto the floor. “The carpet was ruined with waste and food debris,” the officer wrote.

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