This is not in defense of criminals, but why would anyone male or female, ride around with your doors unlocked or windows down.
Man accused of animal cruelty
An Augusta man remained in the Richmond County jail Saturday on animal cruelty charges.
Marcus Tyrone Taylor, of the 1900 block of Old Savannah Road, was arrested Friday on five counts of animal cruelty, with bond set at $39,000, according to jail records.
The arrest followed an investigation by Richmond County Animal Control. Eighteen dogs were seized from Mr. Taylor's property after someone on Jan. 9 reported seeing a pit bull being attacked by another pit bull, a Richmond County sheriff's report stated. Five of those animals had to be euthanized, authorities said.
Rescued woman still in critical condition
A Sylvania woman pulled from her burning home early Thursday remained in critical condition at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta on Saturday, spokeswoman Beth Frits said.
Sylvania Department of Public Safety Capt. John M. Rosier said a Statesboro Herald newspaper carrier saw smoke and fire coming from an apartment on Sylvania Place about 4:45 a.m. and alerted authorities. When emergency crews arrived, they were told Alice Blount was still inside.
Emergency crews entered the burning apartment and pulled Ms. Blount out. She was not breathing, but she was revived by CPR, according to an incident report.
The fire was caused by an unattended pot left on a stove, the report stated.
Bayvale Elementary plans parents' night
Bayvale Elementary hopes to "bridge the gap" between school and home with a night dedicated to parents.
The school is asking parents to attend the workshop at 6 p.m. Monday at Bayvale, 3309 Milledgeville Road. Speakers will include representatives from the courts, the Medical College of Georgia, the Division of Family and Children Services and the sheriff's office.
They will cover issues such as academic achievement, bullying, gangs, health, financial planning and self-esteem.
The evening will also include activities for children and an open forum.
Man who robbed driver at traffic light sought
Authorities were searching Saturday for the man who robbed a motorist as she waited at a traffic light.
A man jumped out of a dark van, walked up to the vehicle and took a purse from the woman as she waited at a light on Laney-Walker Boulevard near Bobby Jones Expressway on Saturday afternoon, according to a Richmond County sheriff's report.
The victim told police the purse contained papers and some prescription medication. She said the subject reentered the van after taking the purse and drove off westbound onto Bobby Jones Expressway.
School offers training in technical courses
In partnership with Augusta Technical College, the Richmond County Board of Education's 21st Century Community Learning Centers will offer several classes for certification.
Lucy C. Laney High School will have basic gas metal arc welding classes. For more information, call (706) 823-6677 or (706) 481-1632.
Certification classes for automotive drivability technician, business office assistant and nail technician will be at Glenn Hills High School. Call (706) 796-4924, ext. 258 to learn more.
GED classes are offered at both locations.
Educators can apply for teaching grants
Washington Savannah River Co. is accepting applications from educators for its 2008 Excellence-In-Teaching Mini Grants program.
The program supports teaching by awarding grants to enhance science, mathematics and technology programs in the classroom.
Elementary and middle public school educators in Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell and Edgefield counties in South Carolina, and Columbia and Richmond counties in Georgia, are eligible to receive grants of $500, $750 or $1,000.
Teachers can obtain applications from their principal or from Program Coordinator Angela P. Savoy by calling (803) 952-9120.
Applications are also available at www.srs.gov/general/outreach/edoutrch. Applications must be received at SRS by Feb. 22.
Comments
This is not in defense of criminals, but why would anyone male or female, ride around with your doors unlocked or windows down.
Hypocrite locks are for honest people. A crook, thief, thug or anything else they can be called will figure out how to get what they want locks or no locks. The lady is lucky he didn't pull a gun and just shoot the window out and possibly kill her in the process. All for contents of her purse.
I can't believe that people still ride around with their car doors unlocked. It was just recently that a woman said she was robbed when someone entered her car by the passenger door while she was stopped at a traffic light. Apparently both of these happened at night. I thought all cars had automatic locks but I guess not. I have an 8 year old Ford and the doors lock when the motor starts. I doubt the thief would fire a gun where it would possibly draw attention.
Cruelty to animals. What is wrong with people that would cause them to want to inflict pain?
A great article in the AC this morning concerning some of the pits bulls that were rescued from the Vick estate. Thank God for caring people.
i hate hate hate pit bulls. they all need to be banned. you don't hear about any other "domestic" animal the way you do those ugly lethal suckers. don't care if they're from a loving home or not. they will snap when they get good and ready. i've heard those stories too.
It's not the victims fault. It's the criminals!!!!!!!!!!!!! Period.
Don't put the blame on the dogs. don't blame all pitbulls. Blame the owners for not training them properly.I always lock my doors, especially at traffic lights.
No one is blaming the victim but you must use COMMON SENSE.
I agree, and I lock my doors also, but there are times one may want fresh air especially on a nice day. This is a right we should have that has been stolen from us by these criminals. This lady got robbed in the middle of the afternoon. And though I wouldn't be where she was with my doors unlocked or my windows down, does not mean everyone should always live in fear locked up their whole life. Yes common sense will help protect you, but its still no excuse for the sorry [filtered word] that robbed her. I for one am sick of all these punk thugs ruining our city. I don't care if they are armed or not, I just hope they all meet the wrong victim who has a gun themselves and will use it to defend themselves!!!!
There are any number of reasons the victim was not locked in the car. One possibility: the victim may have a car that is unable to be locked... Not everyone has the money to fix things immediately when they break. I used to have to travel in a vehicle that didn't lock, although the alarm would go off and I was always very uneasy and wary. I was so thankful when I was able to remedy that situation. I don't think it likely that anyone leaves a car unlocked on purpose anymore. Even if you don't leave anything in the car, why make it easy for someone to steal the car itself, or hide in it and attack you as you reenter it? People who don't lock cars and have had nothing negative happen are simply lucky and possibly simple-minded. Odds are around here, you won't be lucky for long.
Prescription meds? Wonder what they were !!! Surely a tag number was obtained...or not!
Aren't the people who commit these crimes usually friends or at least acquaintances of the victim?
I purposely leave my car doors unlocked & hope a car-jacker will make the mistake of coming in. They won't though. I'm big, ugly, and will fight back. Jackers prey on the weak not the strong.
angie1961 u need to be banned get your a.. out of america:) pitbulls are not bad its just the owners dummy i have 3
and young kids and they are great infact i've had pitbulls for 9 yrs now and for your ignorance i have other dogs around them too including a tea cup yorkie that tops out at 1.8 pds and english bull dogs)) so angie go get ther facts not just the stuff u hear in the news
Simple minded? So we should ban all convertibles, motorcycles, t tops, never ride with your windows down. while it may be smart in certain areas to use caution with these things, people are not simple minded, they are trying to enjoy their right to live freely. Its the punks and sorry criminals you should be calling names. While its not the brightest idea to ride around in that area with your windows down as she did, not everyone should live in fear all the time in all situations as you suggest, it does not make one simple minded or lucky, they may just know when and where they need to be more cautious. I don't live in a neighborhood where everything has to be chained to the house and locked 24/7. I choose to be in an area to where I can have that comfort not just lucky or simple minded. While something can happen anywhere, even with your stuff locked it can happen, then you are simple minded for not having money for an alarm or to get your locks or window fixed, what's next shoulda had a guard dog, body guard?????? Save the names for the criminals.
I am sorry for the young lady who lost her purse to the punk.I have been waiting for one to approach me, I drive with my hand on my glock, with my door unlocked just so one of them come near my car, I will shoot first and let the police ask question later. That is why the crooks do what they do, because they keep getting away with the crimes they commit.They get away with probation if they are caught. I AM WAITING!!!!!!!!
saywhat..It's a shame that the punks probably can't read and will never get your message.
There was a time when I wouldn't condone taking the law into you own hands but society appears to be headed on an irreversible path of liberal judges and overly sympathetic juries in which criminls never seem to get the punishment they deserve. It may be that street justice is the only true justice these days. Saywhat,good luck to you...I'll contribute to your defense fund when it happens.
saywhat!, you took the words right out of my mouth. I also will be there along with SurpemeChancellor to contribute to your defense fund when needed. The law states if someone enters your automobile and you feel threatened you can blow them away and being the law abiding citizen that I am that’s what I would have to do….BLOW THEM AWAY…………………..I also have a GLOCK 17 9mm. with three extra clips.
TakeAStand. What's with you today? What are you doing jumping all over my case? I agree with you about some of what you said, and simple-minded wasn't quite what I meant, but I get irritated at how STUPID people can be riding around leaving their cars unlocked. Not to mention also leaving their cars running, unlocked and make extra unnecessary work for the police. Is that better? I was TRYING to say something nicer than they are being STUPID! I WISH I could leave my doors unlocked, my lawnmower on the carport, my bicycles on the porch out of sight, but not locked up, but that would be STUPID ANYWHERE! If you want to risk having someone come up and slash your convertible top to come after you and your possessions when you are traveling ANYWHERE, that's your choice, just don't be STUPID and think you are immune to being targeted just because you haven't yet been. Criminals don't think like you or me. They don't care what neighborhood you live in or where you are when they see an opportunity to rip you off or do you in for their own selfish agendas. I want to live freely, too, but I am not STUPID - I take precautions no matter where I am.
Just to underline my point. I just had to call the police from a relative's house, heard at least five distinct gun shots over the sound of the tv, traffic and normal household noise, very percussive and very close at 9:25pm. They came in two clusters. This is a NICE neighborhood, with good law-abiding citizens in it and we are sick and tired of being under seige.
lonesomedove - are you good friends with Baroness? It seems like you ladies have all the "bad luck" and the world is trying to "victimize" you. Try a postitive outlook on life. You might be amazed what can happen.
lonesomedove, looks like they have been picking on you today. Maybe they have wild hairs where the sun doesn't shine.
She has just as much right to post on here as anyone else.If you don't like it, then don't read it.Good night.
PTHS lonesomedove and baroness are the same person. I changed my screen name temporarily on here because I WAS THREATENED by someone on another chatline, not associated with Augusta Chronicle, that I have never been on! and a reputable person notified me and I received a transcript of the threat for verification. There was no explanation or reason given for the threat or the incorrect and inappropriate description of me by the threatener. The person who threatened me and two others has used the Augusta Chronicle forums in the past, so I just wanted to make it less easy for someone to look me up temporarily until I could compose my nerves. Apparently my nerves aren't going to get a break since "stuff" keeps happening over which I have absolutely no control, so I'm just going to go back to baroness. I HAVE a positive outlook on life, or I wouldn't be venting and none of this stuff would bother me. If I had a negative outlook on life, I would stick my head in the sand like so many others and not do a flipping thing about stopping crime. And thanks Rose. I appreciate that.
PTHS and Rose and anyone else that likes to banter, joke, annoy, argue, tease, entertain, inform, etc., me: Hereby be informed that I have changed my screen name lonesomedove back to baroness. Until I get bored with it, or have some compelling reason to change it again. Pardon the inconvenience. Just doing the best I know how.
Baronness, I never jumped on you to start with, I just responded as nicely as I could while disagreeing with you. Isn't that how it is supposed to be done? My whole life in RC I had to live with everything under lock and key, in a poor neighborhood, my Dad finally was able to move us out and for the past 15 years we have only chosen to live in areas where we dont have to live like that. I can leave my stuff outside and enjoy my property the way I should. I know people who have to wait at home all day for their deliveries or they will be gone, not here and if the bad comes in this neighborhood, I'll move. I will not stay where I feel like a prisoner anymore. And I agreed with you that yes there are times to be cautious and be smart and I wouldn't drive near laney walker with my windows down or car unlocked, but in my area and many others, you can enjoy riding with the windows down enjoying fresh air, thats all I'm saying. It doesn't make someone foolish to use common sense in certain situationsto enjoy their freedom, and you said anyone who doesnt lock everything up all the time is simple minded or lucky, I'm just saying theres a time and place for these things. And it seemed you were focusing more on saying all people should live locked up like that always or they were stupid, thats how I interpreted it. No one is immune to crime period, but there are places where you are most likely to be a victim, and I choose to live free but with common sense, and that doesnt mean someone who lives like me is foolish.
baroness, I figured out that you and lonesomedove were the same person. I hope nobody threatens you again.
That's fine TakeAStand. I agree with you. I was just really tired when I responded to your post. Not for one minute would I consider You simple-minded. But please be careful EVEN where you live now. I had a friend, an executive secretary who worked with me here in Augusta, and lived on a cul-de-sac on a dirt road out near Lincolnton back in the mid-80's. She moved out there because she didn't feel safe in Augusta. Her sons were playing in the court and an older model large vehicle pulled up and the driver leaned out, grabbed the younger son and was pulling him into his car. The older son had to go pull his brother back out of the car and the man's grasp. She warned all of us, her co-workers, no matter what part of the CSRA we lived in. NO ONE IS IMMUNE NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE, EVEN IF IT'S A GATED COMMUNITY. I'm sure you have plenty of common sense and resourcefulness, but please don't be lulled into a false sense of security. Vigilance surely won't hurt, neither will locked doors. Even driving through the wheat fields of Kansas and the wide-open oil fields in Texas, altho I would have had a hard time resisting dropping the convertible top down if I had one.
i have raised a total of 25 pitbulls in the last 2 years and i also breed them no one can speak on pitbulls if you have never never had any and yes all dogs are not the same it you train a dog to bite he will do just that same way if you train a person to kill they will do just that you can have a cocker spaniel to fight and he will do just that so its not just pits it is all dogs only reason for all this mess about the pits is because they are have been in the media for so long so if you do have any or never raised pits then you can speak on it.
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