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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      PEE-DITTY, PART I: An officer was patrolling the area of Courtland Avenue and Ralph McGill Boulevard, when he reported a man &ldquo;behind the statues on the Northwest corner, urinating on the base of the statue.&rdquo; The officer asked the man what he was doing. &ldquo;He stated he was getting his food together. I then asked him what else he was doing and he admitted that he had to urinate and could not hold it in.&rdquo; (The Blotter Diva googled &ldquo;statue&rdquo;
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES: An officer was working an extra job for Ansley Park Security Patrol when he responded to a call about an alleged theft on Inman Circle. A woman said in April or May 2009, she loaned a diamond ring to a female friend. &ldquo;The ring holds sentimental value to both parties,&rdquo; the officer wrote. Also, the ring is reportedly worth $27,500 and the diamond is 2.68 carats. The woman said in August 2009, she asked her
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY: A 36-year-old man said he called a personal chat line while he was waiting for his cousin to pick him up from the Greyhound bus station. He said he talked with a woman he knows as &ldquo;Little Florida&rdquo; on the chat line &mdash; and Little Florida offered to give him a ride from the bus station if he gave her gas money. The man agreed. When Little Florida arrived, the man put all his personal belongings in her
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      JACK-O-LANTERN DENIED: Around 3 a.m., a man in a brown coat tried to buy a pumpkin and some flowers at a grocery store on Piedmont Avenue. The cashier said he couldn&rsquo;t buy them because the grocery store was closed. The man reportedly got very agitated, walked outside and flung the pumpkin at the store, damaging the pumpkin. Then the man reportedly kicked the flowers. The man left on a red bicycle. Police arrived and searched the area but couldn&rsquo;t find
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      HANGING OUT: An officer saw a man &mdash; wearing a button-down shirt and &ldquo;no pants, no underwear,&rdquo; according to the police rport &mdash; walking down Ponce de Leon Avenue. When the man spotted the officer&rsquo;s patrol car, he reportedly hid behind a bush near a clothing store. &ldquo;The male hid behind the bush, peeking around and over the bush every couple of seconds,&rdquo; the officer wrote. &ldquo;I approached the male and he placed a black shoulder bag over his exposed
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      FOOD FRENZY: An officer responded to a call from an apartment on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. A woman said she &ldquo;found a large amount of mayonnaise missing from her Hellmann&rsquo;s mayonnaise jar,&rdquo; the officer wrote. &ldquo;[She] found peanut butter missing from the peanut butter jar and jelly missing from the grape jelly jar. [She] also found her box of instant potatoes to be open and she had never opened that box,&rdquo; the officer wrote.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The officer looked around and
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      NASTY NEIGHBOR: On Nelms Avenue, a 46-year-old man said he&rsquo;s had problems with his neighbor for about three years. He said he and his family held a yard sale on Saturday and while people approached their house, the neighbor threw firecrackers on the sidewalk &mdash; so people walked away from the yard sale. The man said he asked his neighbor to stop throwing firecrackers and the neighbor replied, &ldquo;Fuck you, faggot. I&rsquo;ll kick your ass.&rdquo; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A police officer talked
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      HE&#39;S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU: Around 12:30 a.m., an officer responded to a possible kidnapping call on Whitehall Street. A 31-year-old woman said three masked men robbed her and her boyfriend at gunpoint, and the men forced her boyfriend into a gold Audi and sped away. While the officer gathered info, the boyfriend called the woman on her cellphone. He insisted on talking to the police officer. &ldquo;I asked [the boyfriend] what was going on and was he kidnapped
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      STAND YOUR GROUND: Around 12:20 a.m., two officers saw a man standing in the middle of North Highland Avenue. The officers said the man just stood there, not moving and impeding traffic. One officer honked his horn and told the man to get out of the way. &ldquo;[The man] continued to stand in the middle of the roadway and raise his middle finger to us,&rdquo; an officer wrote. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;So the officers got out of their patrol car. According to
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      FASHION POLICE, PART 1: An officer was patrolling downtown Atlanta when he noticed a &ldquo;Euro cab&rdquo; picking up people outside the World of Coca-Cola Museum. The cab driver was putting too many passengers into his vehicle, the officer noted. &ldquo;I then parked my vehicle and saw that he had eight people in his vehicle and he could only hold seven,&rdquo; the officer wrote. &ldquo;I asked why he had too many passengers and he just told them it was too many.
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    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      FRISKY ON ASPHALT: Around 3:15 a.m., a police officer spotted a young couple on the ground of a parking lot on Peachtree Street. According to the officer, the man was sitting on the woman, with his pants down and his penis out &mdash; and the couple could be easily seen from the street. &ldquo;I saw [the woman] with [his] penis in her hands, rubbing it on her chest, face and playing with it with her hands,&rdquo; the officer wrote. &ldquo;As
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      ADDING FUEL TO THE FIRE: At a gas station on Moreland Avenue, a 31-year-old woman called police after she used a fuel pump. An officer arrived to deal with the dispute. &ldquo;[The woman] stated when she went to pull the nozzle from her gas tank, she sprayed herself, the parking lot and her vehicle with fuel,&rdquo; the officer wrote. &ldquo;[She] stated that she feels she should not pay for the fuel that was not placed in her tank.&rdquo; The woman
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      GETTING CLEAN ON PONCE: According to police reports, a woman refused to leave a hotel on Ponce de Leon Avenue. The front-desk manager said it was the last day the woman was allowed to stay in her hotel room, according to a paid contract with a community group &mdash; but the woman said she would leave the next day, on her own time. A police officer talked with the woman. &ldquo;[She] stated she was not leaving because she had cleaned
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      FANCY WINE BROUHAHA: A man with a blondish mohawk and a 20-year-old woman walked into a grocery store on Piedmont Avenue. Store employees say the man went to the wine section and grabbed a $130 bottle of wine. He reportedly handed the wine to the woman and she went to the customer service desk and tried to fraudulently return the wine. Employees told the woman that she couldn&rsquo;t return the wine &mdash; so she left the bottle at the customer
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      CLOCK O&#39; LOVE: A police officer responded to a 911 call about a dispute on West End Avenue. A 28-year-old woman said her neighbor &quot;Cupid Time&quot; was making unwanted advances toward her and she was concerned for her safety. Police spoke with Cupid Time and he denied the allegations. No one else could substantiate the woman&rsquo;s claims. &ldquo;During my interview of Mr. Time, he seemed slightly demented or possibly mentally ill,&rdquo; the officer wrote. No charges filed because, the officer
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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