Slow News day in Valdosta

[jsuber]

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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Athens police say an officer found a drunken 20-year-old University of Georgia student who tried to drive home after a party passed out at a stop sign with the car still running.

The officer found the woman about 2 a.m. Sunday asleep with the car still in drive. The officer put the car in park and turned off the engine.

When the woman awoke a few minutes later, she told police she’d been drinking at a house party earlier that night. The woman, who was not identified, was charged with a DUI and underage drinking.

I must be getting old because I remember when this was not news.

[jsuber]

Now this is news. Deputies Make Traffic Stop, Find $1 Million In Car

Do you need instructions on obeying the law while carrying 1 million dollars in a duffel bag and driving down the road.

(AP) Gwinnett County deputies found more than $1 million in cash in a car they had stopped for a traffic violation. Sheriff's spokeswoman Stacey Bourbonnais said the man was stopped Friday after deputies noticed he was swerving in and out of lanes.

While speaking to him, the man allegedly pushed a deputy and fled on foot. He was captured and charged with obstruction of a law enforcement officer.

The deputies then searched the vehicle and found the money, which was seized, in a duffel bag.

[Flint River Pirate]

I can relate to the first story while in Athens, not the second on though.

[Reel Cowboy]

1 million dollars, and fleeing on foot? Swerving in and out of traffic?
Was he on his way to Washington?

[MudDucker]

I can relate to the first story while in Athens, not the second on though.

You mean sleeping at the stop sign while intoxicated is against the law in Athens?

[Tom Keels]

I can relate to the first story while in Athens, not the second on though.

You mean sleeping at the stop sign while intoxicated is against the law in Athens?

I thought it was part of the entrance exam.

[Flint River Pirate]

I can relate to the first story while in Athens, not the second on though.

You mean sleeping at the stop sign while intoxicated is against the law in Athens?

I thought it was part of the entrance exam.

So did I....

[big bend gyrene]

Glad I don't live in Valdosta, as I must admit "been there, done that" and I didn't even have the excuse of being drunk.

Bout fifteen years ago I was working as a third shift supervisor for a manufacturing plant in South Cackalacky, and to make matters worse regularly abused myself with additional overtime morning hours. One morning as I was making my way home I came to a set of tracks only to see a VERY long train approaching. I at least had the sense to put my car in neutral and also pulled up my parking brake, swearing I would only rest my eyes for a second...
... ... ... and the next thing I know I hear voices approaching my car, see a long line of traffic behind me in my rear view mirror, and there's not a train in sight .. floor the car across the now empty tracks, praying no one I know has witnessed the embarrising event... and of course get to work the next day and one of my buds is telling everyone about my sitting at the track for five minutes, and the pending rescue operation he was set to start after he figured the owner of the car at the tracks was suffering a heart attack.

And to your point, Suber, even though I was from a small town I didn't make the official paper news though I'm not sure it would have made much a difference in the number of folks that enjoyed the story thanks to my supposed buddy.