What jackazz had nothing better to do than cause damage to a sewage pipe?
AREA
Vandals who apparently used rocks to smash an exposed wastewater pipe caused more than 18,000 gallons of sewage to flow into a tributary of Butler Creek, according to the Augusta Utilities Department.
The New Year's Day spill occurred about 8:30 a.m. along a creek behind a home on White Sand Drive.
Crews dispatched to the area found that an exposed pipe at a creek crossing had been broken. The breach was repaired by 2:30 p.m.
"It appeared they had hit it with large rocks until the pipe was broken," said Allen Saxon, the department's assistant director.
2 men sought in theft of catalytic converters
Investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying two men wanted in the theft of catalytic converters from several locations in Richmond County.
The men are accused of removing the part, which contains several precious metals, from vehicles parked at Yohe Plumbing on Franke Industrial Boulevard, Flower's Bakery on Mike Padgett Highway and Jenkins Memorial CME Church in mid-December, according to Investigator Kendall Brown, of the Richmond County sheriff's Copper/Metal Task Force.
Anyone with information can call Investigator Brown at (706) 821-1076. A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered by Yohe Plumbing for information leading to the arrest of any suspects in the case.
GEORGIA
1 dead, 1 injured after Ferrari runs off road
LAWRENCEVILLE --- Gwinnett County police say the driver was killed and his passenger severely burned when a yellow Ferrari went off the road on a curve, struck a culvert and overturned.
Police say 32-year-old Russell E. Hays of Auburn died in the fiery crash Thursday night outside of Lilburn.
The man identified as the car's owner, 36-year-old Todd Willoughby of Lilburn, the founder of a classic car collector Web site, was at Grady Memorial Hospital on Friday. His condition was not immediately known.
Cpl. Illana Spellman, a police spokeswoman, says both men were ejected from the vehicle. She said toxicology tests would determine whether alcohol was a contributing factor.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Mother, daughter struck, killed by SUV
GEORGETOWN --- A mother and her 10-year-old daughter have died after being struck by an SUV while trying to cross a Georgetown County highway.
Coroner Kenny Johnson says 29-year-old Erica Dennison and her daughter, Audrey Dennison, were hit on U.S. Highway 17 Alternate about 6:30 p.m. Thursday. They died from head injuries.
No charges were filed against the driver of the SUV.
Comments
What jackazz had nothing better to do than cause damage to a sewage pipe?
It's the culture of our day. Many parents today have little respect for anything and they are teaching their children to have even less respect for anything. It's a throw away society. If I break it, it can be replaced.
yeah they paying 200 each for catalytic converters...i tell you what let me catch someone under my cars stealing...people stealing that copper and everything...they went in my friend house that he was remodeling and rip out the walls and stole the copper.people just don't went plain crazy with stealing this stuff now.
That is so true rbk. Some brats have moved into my neighborhood and think they own everyone's yard. And when I tell them to go play by their house (rental) they give me a dirty look! One told me that he could hang around the stop sign (I live on a corner) in my front yard because I don't own the stop sign! The kid is around 10 years old and shows no respect! They broke a window, threw rocks and sticks in my pool and think they can run around my front lawn and trash it out. Talking to the parents is like talking to the wall. Besides the parents are hardly home.
....idle hands.......
Put those idle hands on some behinds, then you will not have this problem.
Gay comments from you, Hypo? Who would have guessed?
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coalminerpa you must be my neighbor, these kids don't have no respect for no one. i come home unexpectedly about 10:pm they have the nerve to be all in my yard next to the fenced area about 10 feet off the road on a bike, just tearing up my yard like its theirs. i have a basketball goal out front, i had authorized one of the kids to use it providing no candy wrapper etc. left behind, i come home to find dirty/socks with holes in them to whatever. don't forget about those dogs i came home about 4 a.m. they are all in my yard i know they have a owner they are Pomerania's. i don't appreciate this
do what i did to a disrespectful 10 yr old in the nieghborhood.he cussed me for an s.o.b., so i caught him ,took my belt off and wore his butt out .well his dad showed up and ask me what give me the right to touch his son.i told him the fact that he didnt do his job as a parent gave me the right and if he didnt like it i would do the same thing to him .he left but i have no more problems with the kids in my nieghborhood.
Richmond County Investigators, get off your indolence butt, asked for aid from the public to catch catalytic converters thiefs.Thats not vital right now,investigators you need to ask the public and contact some of them investigators from the forensic files T.V. show and catch these violent perpetrators and get them off the street who prey on elderly and snatch purse and close all of 2008, incidents reported.
Good idea Hypo...Then there will be those "parents" screaming for that person's arrest and then file suit...The problem is to survive without have to resort to beating the "devil" out of "parents and children"...Quotation marks needed as I use the term parents and children in the loosest of terminology. i.b.e.w.electric you are very fortunate to be alive...Nowadays people will shoot you over something like that...I am not just talking about the so-called parent but the kid...It has been a problem for more years than I care to think and it is getting worse...The kids are being raised with the attitude that they can do whatever they want, whenever they please with little or no discipline forthcoming from authority figures...Their authority figures is the oldest "thug" in the neighborhood...As far as police presence if the taxpayers would authorize more monies to be spent on additional manpower and equipment with little interference from the "upstanding members" of a community progress could begin...But as it is so many of the police have found jobs in other areas that are willing to pay decent salaries and benefits to these men and women and who can blame them for leaving...
If a kid cusses you out, call the parent, and/or write the parent, and/or call the police. Don't take it into your own hands. If anyone physically assaulted my child like that, they would have hell to pay one way or another. The child should not have verbally abused the adult, but the adult should have shown self-control and gone about things the right way and set a good example instead of resorting to a physical assault on the child. I can not imagine anyone I know doing that to someone else's child. The only lesson that child learned is that some adults abuse their authority. He'll think it's okay to so the same thing to your grandchild one day. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Unless the parents do something to correct this type of behavior, it will not change. It is very sad to hear of children being so disrespectful to adults.
That's right. The parents need to correct the children's behavior, the neighbor does not have that right. Unfortunately, some parents don't teach their children not to trespass on other people's property. I politely asked a parent to stop ramming her 2'X3'X2' remote control car into my chain link fence in front of my house and she shrieked back, "It's not YOUR fence!". I suppose I spent over $1000 to have a fence and gates put totally around my yard and gated and subdivided between my front and back yards and it wasn't mine? I don't think so. Some people just aren't rational. I'm just glad I got it put in before they moved in next door. We also removed the gate between our backyard and theirs. We had had a gate there because the original owner of the house next door's kids used to play often with the kids at our house. It was a sad feeling to remove it, but we had a feeling it was a good idea. The new neighbors proved us right with their disrespect for boundaries. That's called trespassing.
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