July 1, 2003

• SCANNER STOOOORRRRRIIIIEEEESSSS!!!!

  
  

  Man, in his 50's, riding around downtown Square on a bicycle wearing high heels, purple scarf, red camisole top, with his chest hanging out, carrying a 'fruity' wand.

  
  

  Woman parks illegally, blocks man in. Man becomes irate, screams at woman, and proceeds to back into her car, pull forward, back into her car again and leaves the scene. Officers have all information pertaining to this man, including his home phone number, place of employment, address, etc....Filing criminal charges for destruction of property. Woman was given a ticket for illegally parking a vehicle.

  
  

  Major highway is shut down due to accident with injuries... One walking wounded, no entrapments. Two patients being transported, one refuses to go be checked out.

  
  

  19yr old female walking around parking lot with razor blade, possible suicide attempt.

  
  

  20mo. old male burned his hand on a stove burner, blistered.

  
  

  Black gym-type bag found on side of the road. The road is a not-so-great area of our county...officer radios sgt. on the private channel and explains about the bag and says; "I figure there isn't too much terrorism on Franklin Rd. I mean, if they want to blow up Franklin Rd. I say go for it." Sarge agrees. Officer decides to go ahead and open the bag by saying, "Yeah, we'll get Riti to do it, she's pretty much expendable." Later on officer is radiong a fellow cop and says "Yeah, I thought about jumping her from behind or something, but you know, sexual harrassment and all...I wanted to throw an M-80 between her feet, that'd been pretty funny."

  
  

  Woman is stopped for driving without headlights. She explains to the officer that she is driving a rental and isn't responsible for making sure her headlights are on. Officer tells her "So you're telling me that because it's a rental and if I stop you for speeding, I shouldn't write you a ticket, because you didn't realize that your foot was on the pedal?" The woman became irate and exclaimed, "My brother is a cop and on a traffic unit, he would never write this ticket!" The officer tells a fellow officer over the radio; "All I could think was, 'Well then that isn't much of a traffic unit.'

  
  

  
  

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  The house front;
  

  We thought about buying land, but honestly we can't buy land, pay it off AND pay a mortgage too.  So the plan is to buy enough land that we REALLY like, with a house that we can live with for 10 years or so, then build what we really want or just remodel the existing house.  We aren't planning on moving EVER after this, so if the house is just REALLY not what we can live with for a few years, or able to be added on to later, then we don't want it.

  
  

  We want a TON of land, 32 acres isn't too much. As a matter of fact, it really isn't enough! I don't want ANYONE around me EVER...subdivisions are popping up EVERYWHERE...especially in the Atlanta area and surrounding/outlying counties..we'll be about 1.5 hrs from Atlanta proper, but people still live up there and urban sprawl is growing.  We want a piece of land that is large enough so that if we are ever surrounded by subdivisions, we won't really know it.  My parents bought a house on about an acre when they moved to GA and by the time my mom moved out the area we lived in was going mad with development.  I grew up in a SMALL town, everyone knew everyone...then the developers saw some trees....and well, THOSE just HAD to go...you know those stupid pesky trees and all.  Honestly, development in GA is out of control and we want away from it, NOW!

  
  

  Also, our long term plans include horses, so most of our land will be comprimised of pasture and trees...which is just fine by me!

  
  

  I'm not sure about railroad tracks near the house...we would have to put up a HUGE fence so that animals and kids couldn't back there....but the 32 acres is mostly trees anyway, so there goes my pasture land, unless I want to clear trees (nothankyou!)....I'm not sure what we're going to do right now.  I'm really just trying to figure out what it is we're looking for.  I'm thinking that we're looking for pastures and trees, an equal mix of the two.  Hopefully, we'll find it soon enough and we can move..I'm really sick of being here suffocated surrounded by people.

  
  

  If you have any other thoughts, let me know!  I need to make sure we think all of this through......I know that when I first saw this house I *knew* that this was the house I wanted to live in..not forever, but it was meant to be ours...and here we are...so I'm sure that I'll find the right house, I just want to talk about it and try to figure everything out...well that and if I emerse myself into finding a house then I don't have to think about the impending funeral and other unplesantries......

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