More of the bizarre stuff police officers around North Georgia were up against recently.
> Not what the Good Book says: A Conyers man, approached by two men posing as men of the cloth, was scammed out of $1,600 when they offered to bless his money. The two men said they were South African pastors when they asked for a donation and told the man they wanted to bless his cash. They handed him a folder he thought contained his money, but it was empty. > He also didn’t leave a tip: A man at a Stone Mountain Waffle House used the old create-a-distraction ploy to skip out on his check. Unprovoked, the man stood up and began cursing at a woman customer. “I got mine in the car,” he said, according to the police report, believed to be a threat that he was going to get a gun. He left the restaurant, got into his car and drove away. He …
Here's what police officers around Northeast Georgia were up against recently.
> Take the beer, not my noodles: A man was caught outside a Stone Mountain-area Walmart after trying to shoplift some beer and a 12-count pack of ramen noodles. When a Gwinnett County police officer saw the items in the man’s locked vehicle in the parking lot, he gave the officer his keys and said, "Go ahead and give the beer back then." What about the noodles? > That’s a lot of chicken wings: Two men were arrested recently for trying to steal $65,000 worth of frozen chicken wings. They intended to load 10 pallets worth of chicken into a rental truck. Did they have a big Super Bowl party planned? > Nicotine fit: A burglar had one thing on his mind when he broke into a gas station in the Hamilton Mill area of Gwinnett County. The …
It's all in the weekly roundup of strange crime stories in Northeast Georgia, as reported by local Patch sites.
> You don’t see this often: The Walton County Sheriff’s Department reported that people dressed up in gorilla suits were throwing debris on a roadway. They were told to stop monkeying around and clean up the mess. > Oh yeah … the fence: After crashing his vehicle through a street sign and a wooden fence, and then fleeing on foot in Barrow County, a Stone Mountain man under the influence asked police why he was chased. > At least it wasn’t Monopoly money: A man tried to make a purchase at a Stone Mountain Big Lots with a $5 bill disguised as a $100 bill. > Can I have my fake money back? Two suspects trying to spend five counterfeit $20 bills at an Oconee County Walmart tried to snatch the bills back and threatened to beat up the clerk, …
