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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Weird Police News: Cold Pills and Lasers ...

More of the strange stuff police officers around North Georgia were up against recently.

Click on the links below for more info on each story > High on cold pills: A Sugar Hill man was found in a disoriented state and walking around the parking lot of a Buford-area Target store. Did he take any drugs? “I took 34 cold pills,” he told police. Apparently, the man was “robo-ing,” the slang for taking large quantities of over-the-counter cold medicine to get high. > ‘Please and thank you,’ says robber: An armed robbery suspect at least was polite when he tried to rob a Norcross-area check-cashing business of $300. He handed an employee a note that read, "I would like to withdraw $300 from your register." It wasn’t a joke, considering the large kitchen knife he was holding. However, the suspect became nervous and fled before getting…

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