Category: Randomness

Atlanta Police Officers Fist Fight Over Who Can Run Faster

Two Atlanta police officers are “off duty” after getting into a drunken brawl at a bar over who could run faster. LOL! 

The argument got so heated that it resulted in the two coppers going outside to fist fight, and one copper allegedly pulling his gun on the other! 

You CAN’T make this stuff up.  This has drunken written all over it.

Wouldn’t the more befitting thing to do to settle the score have been to just go outside and race? Winner takes all. 

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According to Channel 2 news– A local police officer is suspended and another has resigned after the two men got into a fight.

Investigators say the Atlanta police officers started arguing at the R. Thomas Deluxe Grill in Buckhead around 5 a.m. last Friday. The two were arguing over who could run faster.

Officers Stephen Green and Joseph Tyer decided to go outside where they started fighting.

According to a police report, Green said tension escalated, and Tyer told him, “I’m going to punch you in the face.”

The co-workers then began physically fighting, until other officers broke it up.

Officers say Tyer allegedly pulled his gun. No shots were fired.

Green has been relieved of duty, but is still being paid as the investigation unfolds. He’s been worked at the department for more than four years.

Tyer resigned Wednesday. He worked at the department for more than three years.
There’s an ongoing investigation within the police department and on a criminal level.

Library Book Overdue 50 Years Finally Returned

 

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A library book overdue by nearly 50 years has been returned to a university library in southwest Ohio. 

The University of Dayton says a former student who borrowed the “History of the Crusades” in 1967 has sent it back with an apology for the late return. 

Read the apology here | Library Book Overdue 50 Years Finally Returned

Former Toronto Mayor Recorded Smoking Crack Has Died


Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has died. The 46-year-old Ford gained international notoriety after a video surfaced in May 2013 that apparently showed him using crack.

He served for a decade as a city councilor before being elected mayor in 2010.

He was a bombastic and larger-than-life personality who spoke bluntly — traits that helped him craft an image as a champion for the working class.

He had undergone 18 months of treatment for a rare cancer — leomorphic liposarcoma — that was initially diagnosed during his 2014 re-election bid, the Toronto Star reported. He underwent surgery that was followed by the discovery of two new tumors, according to the newspaper.

Ford’s time as mayor was plagued by scandal.

In May 2013 a video surfaced that appeared to show Ford smoking crack cocaine.

Ford denied any wrongdoing and ignored those calling for his resignation.

“I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.”

But as more videos surfaced showing Ford in compromising circumstances, the scrutiny became more intense, and his relationship with the City Council became more acrimonious.

Months later, the admission finally came: He told reporters he “probably” smoked the drug at some point.

“Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine,” he said. “Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors.”

Ford refused to step aside, even after the City Council stripped him of most of his powers.