Blog Topic: Drunken Mayhem

In the Loop: Drunken Mayhem on the Georgia-Missouri Game Weekend

By Joshua L. Jones | October 20, 2015 4:22pm

Photo Credit: Lee Gatlin

• Friday at 2:57a.m., an officer responded to the Cookout on Waddell Street after the manager called in reference to a driver who had fallen asleep in the drive-through for 30 minutes.

The truck left before officers arrived and was found on Dearing Extension with the engine running, in gear and lights on.

The driver, a 19-year-old Athens man, told officers he had been drinking and was under the impression that he was in the parking lot of a sorority.

He was arrested and charged with DUI.

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In the Loop: Drunken Mayhem on the Georgia-Alabama Weekend

By Joshua L. Jones | October 6, 2015 1:12pm

Photo Credit: Lee Gatlin

After UGA home football games, Flagpole reporter and photographer Joshua L. Jones will be checking the police blotter to find the weekend’s strangest drunken antics. All information is taken from Athens-Clarke County police reports.

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In the Loop: Drunken Mayhem on the Georgia-South Carolina Weekend

By Joshua L. Jones | September 22, 2015 12:50pm

Photo Credit: Lee Gatlin

After every UGA home football game, Flagpole reporter and photographer Joshua L. Jones will be checking the police blotter to find the weekend’s strangest drunken antics. All information is taken from Athens-Clarke County police reports.

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In the Loop: Drunken Mayhem on the Georgia-ULM Weekend

By Joshua L. Jones | September 9, 2015 4:15pm

Photo Credit: Lee Gatlin/file

Last weekend marked the kickoff of UGA's football season and the first real test for Athens-Clarke County's new underage consumption law, which grants officers the discretion to simply cite an offender or take them to jail like the good old days. So this weekend we all missed the sight of students standing on the side of the road with their hands zip-tied waiting for the paddy wagon. But the ACC police reports show an audacious new trend in the long tradition of fake IDs in Athens: Kids these days are simply taking scotch tape, placing it over their date of birth and writing in the magic number to get them in the door.

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In the Loop: School's Back In, and Downtown Is Crazy Again

By Blake Aued | August 27, 2015 1:12pm

The students are back! And if you couldn’t tell from the traffic, you can tell by all the Athens-Clarke County police reports of drunk people getting arrested downtown.

• An officer responded to a stabbing report at 1:40 a.m. Wednesday at Double Barrel, an East Broad Street bar. The victim and suspect had left, but the officer later interviewed the victim at Athens Regional Medical Center and arrested Robert Woodrow Williams, 19, of Savannah, and charged him with aggravated assault. He stabbed a Connecticut man in the neck with a broken wine glass, police said.

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In the Loop: New Georgia Fireworks Law Draws Complaints

By Blake Aued | July 7, 2015 4:07pm

Photo Credit: maf04/Flickr

I was out of town last weekend, but even in Savannah, fireworks were waking up my baby and driving my dog nuts. My social media feeds were full of people complaining about the racket, and it was no different in Atlanta, according to the AJC.

The Georgia legislature legalized fireworks effective July 1. The law allows fireworks to be set off until midnight and until 2 a.m. on and around the Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve.

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In the Loop: UPDATE: Shot Fired at UGA's Greek Park

By Blake Aued | February 16, 2015 3:55pm

Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones

Greek Park.

A member of a University of Georgia fraternity pointed a gun at members of another nearby fraternity during an altercation early this morning, according to UGA police.

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In the Loop: Don't Drive Drunk Tonight (or Ever, but Especially Not Tonight)

By Blake Aued | January 16, 2015 2:27pm

Athens-Clarke County police will be setting up DUI checkpoints tonight. No, they didn't say where.

Police said they'll also be checking for child seats, seat belt and other traffic violations.

So, if you're thinking about downing some shots, throwing your baby in the back and getting behind the wheel of a car with no working brake lights, well, don't.

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In the Loop: Auburn Fan Claims He Was Spit on, Hit by Bottles in Athens

By Blake Aued | November 17, 2014 2:02pm

Photo Credit: Randy Schafer

Georgia and Auburn fans, living in harmony.

This is an anonymous Reddit post, so take it with a Big Gulp full of grains of salt, but a (purported) Auburn fan didn't have a good time in Athens last weekend (if this person was even here at all).

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In the Loop: Burglar Has Terrible Taste in Liquor

By Blake Aued | August 3, 2014 4:08pm

According to Athens-Clarke County police, someone broke into Firehouse Package on West Broad Street Friday night or Saturday morning and took "two bottles of brandy valued at $30, three bottles of vodka valued at $30, two bottles of E&J brandy valued $30, two bottles of Mr. Boston vodka valued at $30 and two packs of Newport cigarettes valued $12."

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