Football fans get up to some crazy stuff. After each University of Georgia home football game, Flagpole checked the police blotter to find out what kind of beer-fueled mayhem took place. Here are the funniest and strangest shenanigans Athens-Clarke County’s finest responded to. All the information below is taken from from police reports. Check back Monday to find out what happened after the Kentucky game.
South Carolina, Saturday, Sept. 8
An ACC police officer was leaving for work one morning last weekend when he heard some splashing in his apartment complex pool. He found three people skinny-dipping. When he asked if they lived there, they told him no, but their friend “Diego Sanchez” did.
At the Rivalry Music Festival, a 23-year-old man was being patted down by security at the front entrance gate. When asked to take off his hat, two dime bags of meth fell onto the ground.
A 20-year-old man was enjoying a midnight victory pee in a downtown Athens alley after the UGA game. A patrolling officer asked him for his license and he handed him a Rhode Island ID that was a “very bad fake.” The cop asked him, “Really?!” The man replied, “Yep, that’s a fake.”
A 24-year-old man, who was visiting the Lay-Z-Shopper in downtown Athens after the UGA-South Carolina game, began “urinating in between the shelves” inside the store.
While writing an open container citation to a male who had crossed the street Saturday night with an open container, a random 26 year-old-man tried to intervene. “What you are doing is wrong, and that ain’t right,” said the intervening male. After several verbal warnings, the 26-year-old man was arrested after physically obstructing the officers.
Police came upon a 32-year-old man lying in the middle of the intersection at Lumpkin Street and Clayton Street. Two officers instructed the man to come towards them, but the man just laughed and ran away. When the officers caught up to him, they arrested him. He called one of the female officers a lesbian and yelled to strangers that the police touched him on his penis.
North Texas, Saturday, Sept. 22
A man got caught with his hand in the Flanagan’s tip jar. After taking some money, he went next door to The Bury. Police caught up with him after a Flanagan’s employee pointed out the offender and said there was video of the crime. The man admitted to taking the money and pulled $7 from his pocket. When asked where the rest of it was, he said he gave it to another Flanagan’s employee.
An officer noticed a shouting match that turned physical while on patrol in downtown Athens. He went to break it up and ordered everyone to leave the scene, but one guy did not comply. He became more “vocal and animated by clapping his hands in the face of passing patrons” and also started yelling louder and jumping up and down. After another directive by police to leave the area went unheeded, the man was arrested and taken to jail.
LSU, Saturday, Sept. 29
After the game on Saturday, a police officer witnessed a group of intoxicated males walking downtown. A moment later, one of the males walked right out in front of a car, almost getting hit. He tapped the hood of the car and started dancing, “apparently pleased with his actions.”
Police responded to a report of an extremely drunk male lying on the floor of the downtown Holiday Inn. When asked for his date of birth, he responded, “Five o’clock.” When he was told to leave, the man left the hotel but began walking down Hull Street towards Broad Street and was arrested after repeated orders to get out of the street.
A concerned neighbor advised police that a man was kicking and banging on a door after the Bulldogs took home the win. Apparently, he was there to house-sit, but he vomited on the front porch and began shaking the door handle, trying to break the glass to the front door. When police arrived, the man was passed out on a couch that was on the front porch.
Police responded to LSU fans’ complaints of people yelling at passers-by from a rooftop downtown. A man, who was pointed out by witnesses, was accused of spitting on people as they walked by. The man had previously been warned multiple times to get off the roof.
A man urinated on the front door of Walk the Line tattoo parlor on East Broad Street. When police made contact, the man was “full of attitude” and refused to corporate. As he was being put in handcuffs, “everything changed” and now he was sorry for what he had done. He also said that since he served his country in the Army, he deserves a break.
Before the game, an officer noticed five men running around in the street “playing some type of game” in heavy traffic. He began to approach the group and discovered that four of them were in possession of open beer containers. They were all underage.
Missouri, Saturday, Oct. 11
A police officer noticed a man dancing in the middle of “extremely heavy” traffic on Lexington Road after Saturday’s game. He was wearing a Braves foam finger (Miley Cyrus fan?), and several vehicles were forced to slam on their brakes to avoid hitting him, causing a standstill. After being placed under arrest, he apologized several times, claiming that he was “just trying to have some fun.”
A “very intoxicated” girl in a black dress was stumbling around the intersection of Washington and Lumpkin streets. Police asked her where she was going, and she replied that she was waiting for a ride. She was also talking into a small pocket purse because she thought it was her cell phone. She was arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol.
A group of men walking through the Hilton Garden Inn parking deck started walking in the opposite direction when they noticed a couple of patrolling policemen. At first, an officer did not make contact because he thought they were leaving, but five minutes later they were back and on the second level of the parking deck.
The officer made contact with one of the men who said he was going to 100 Proof to “meet up with a girl,” and the other guys told him they would help him find the bar. The officer pointed out that there were “not any bars on the second level of the parking deck.”
The man then admitted that he was there to buy marijuana from one of the guys but got a bad feeling when they asked to use his phone. He said he felt like they were going to “roll him” for his phone and wallet.
An officer noticed a man in the front yard of a house on Ruth Street with his head and arms drawn into his shirt. The officer asked him if he was all right and saw that he had vomit on his shirt. He was asked to stand up but was very unsteady on his feet. When asked where he was going, he continued to repeat “Woodbrook.” The officer said he was unaware of a Woodbrook in Athens. The man later said he was looking for “Athens County,” and the officer informed him he was in Athens in Clarke County. After checking his ID and realizing the man was underage, the officer arrested him.
Appalachian State, Saturday, Nov. 9
A man was drinking with a friend at Boars Head downtown. The man, who was wearing an Appalachian State T-shirt, started confronting strangers and made an “inappropriate comment” to someone’s wife. When the husband said something back, the Mountaineers fan punched him in the nose. The man who threw the punch then ran off. Bar employees chased him to a parking deck but lost him.
An officer on a bike saw a white Mercedes heading the wrong way down Clayton Street Saturday, Nov. 9. The policeman caught up to the driver, who had to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting two people crossing the street who weren’t looking. The driver, a 29-year-old from Spartanburg, SC, then tried to turn around in the middle of the street. He was arrested and charged with DUI.
Like what you just read? Support Flagpole by making a donation today. Every dollar you give helps fund our ongoing mission to provide Athens with quality, independent journalism.
