Chattanooga Pulse

A weekly roundup of the newsworthy, notable and often head-scratching stories gleaned from police reports from the Chattanooga Police Department, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, the Bradley County Sheriff’s Department and the Dalton Police Department.

• A Gadd Road resident was walking back to his apartment when he heard the door to his apartment close and saw a man walk quickly away.  He caught up with the man, who was mumbling to himself, and confronted him.  When asked what he was doing inside the apartment, the man told him there was a bobcat in the adjacent apartment.  Police were unable to locate any wild animals, and although there was a chair knocked over and a sliding-glass door ajar in the man’s apartment, it appeared nothing had been stolen.

• There is nothing wrong with having a cold beer or two on a hot summer day.  However, it is not advisable to do your drinking near a school, even if there aren’t any children around.  It is especially inadvisable to do so to the point of drunkenness.  And following the baseball axiom of “three strikes and you’re out”, being drunk at a school with carrying a knife well over the maximum legal length is going to get you in a good bit of trouble.  So unless you want to end up like the man who was arrested at Battle Academy on Main and Market for public intoxication and possession of an unlawful weapon, we advise leaving your weapons at home and drinking away from schoolyards.

• Having someone take your wallet is usually a very good reason to call police. Having a prostitute take your wallet after you disagree over a fee for her services, however, is not something officers often hear about.  But that is exactly what happened when a Rossville man told police he had picked up a woman on 10th Avenue, who then backed out of their agreed-upon transaction, at which point she grabbed his wallet in order to make him stop the car and let her out.  The officer advised the man to return to Rossville and not come back to Chattanooga without a legitimate reason, while counseling the woman to stay off the streets.

• No matter how much you dislike your teenage children becoming interested in the opposite sex, it happens to just about every teen throughout history. And it is also very common for a teenage boy to sneak into a teenage girl’s bedroom by climbing in through her window.  So it really shouldn’t have been that surprising to some parents on Old Ringgold Road to find the daughter’s beau in her bed early one morning. The parents said they were planning to have their daughter checked out by a doctor to see if there had been any illicit activity between the two.