Hands Down Pants, Parking Lot Sex and Other Strange Police Stories

Read about what law enforcement in the Northeast Georgia area has been up against recently.

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Meat in Pants, Drive-Up DUI and Flipping Police the Bird

Here are some strange activities police encountered across Northeast Georgia recently.

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Villains Fight the Law, Law Wins

There are a lot of ways to attack and defend, and Northeast Georgia villains and victims have tried most.

When the police are after you, fighting back generally leads to more trouble. A Barrow County man whose dogs attacked officers trying to arrest him lost his dogs in that exchange. Running from the police might also lead you to end up in a tree with a deputized dog on your tail, which is what happened to a possible burglary suspect in Oconee County. It's better, if you're caught with a bunch of metal that doesn't belong to you, just to stop the truck, like these folks did. However, when some bad people are after you, fighting back is a good idea. An Athens man smacked an intruder with a baseball bat after the guy kicked his door in, and the guy ran away with his door-kicking friends. A woman in Norcross beat back a man who sprayed her with …

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Peeping Tom, Fleeing Flasher and Shoe Snatcher

Truth is stranger than fiction.

The weird police news report might not be good for much, but it can help potentially like-minded people connect. For instance: The man in Athens accused of being a peeping tom after creeping around an apartment complex looking into windows, and the woman in Sugar Hill accused of flashing her breasts at motorists as she ran away from police. A crack pipe was found in the Athens case; methamphetamine use is suspected in the other. There are always new ideas for things and ways to steal: You can remove a Wii game and cell phone accessories from a package so the recipient gets the box in the mail, but not the stuff. You can break into someone's house and take a bunch of valuables, like a gun, jewelry and a camera -- then for good measure also …

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Job Seeker Turns Robber After Learning Business Not Hiring

Strange crime news from Patch sites in northeast Georgia.

In an act that probably will not end up on his resume, a man robbed a Norcross-area car wash after the owner told him there weren’t any job openings. The owner had been cleaning the parking lot and returned to his office to find a man inside. The man asked for a job, and the owner told him that he wasn't hiring at the moment. The man walked away, but returned a short time later -- with a handgun. After taking the owner's money and driver's license, the still-unemployed man fled. In other strange crime news:

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Weird Police Stories of the Week: Dog Bites and Beer Drinkers at the Grocery Store

Here are some of the stranger Northeast Georgia police stories of the week.

At the Publix in Winder, a man agreed to hold a chihuahua for another customer who said he was going in to claim a winning lottery ticket. Police were called after the man reported the chihuahua bit him on the nose and cut his upper lip. The same day at the Winder Ingles, a man was charged with public intoxication after refusing to stop drinking his beer outside the store. He'd been sitting with another man and woman at an outdoor table. Other unusual arrests:

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