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.
The Top Grossing Movies of 2009 (so far) 1. Up - $250,218,000 2. Star Trek - $246,225,000 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - $201,246,000 4. Monsters Vs. Aliens $195,971,000 5. The Hangover $183,247,000 6. X-Men Origins: Wolverine $177,837,000 7. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian $163,248,000 8. Fast and Furious $155,020,000 9. Paul Blart: Mall Cop $146,336,178
• Among life’s many pleasures is treating yourself to some hot, fresh doughnuts. However, when stopping off at the doughnut shop, it is generally advisable to keep track of your purse. A woman called police after she bought a dozen doughnuts from a popular Brainerd Road shop and then couldn’t find her purse, which she claimed she had set down on the counter. While police were reviewing the surveillance tape, the woman opened the box of doughnuts…to discover her purse safely inside. • One of the best tools in fighting neighborhood crime is a neighborhood watch. In the West Sunset neighborhood of Lookout Mountain, an alert neighbor called police after noticing what appeared to be a burglary happening next door, reporting that two men were loading items into a car. Officers responded to the area, sealing off access to the neighborhood
• Police officers always attempt to be as meticulous as possible when filling out their reports. Which often leads to some odd reports, such as a recent call on Southern Street, in which a woman complained about a cab driver. The woman told police that she was playing cards when the cab pulled up in front of her house and the driver tried to “holla” her. She was not interested in being “holla-ed” at and told the driver to leave her alone, at which point she claims he became angry and threw a beer bottle out the window before speeding off. • But the best report of the week belongs to Officer Galen Roberts. Roberts was responding to a downtown
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10. Taken - $144,984,167 It’s already been a very good year for Hollywood, up 11.9 percent over last year, and with the incredible opening of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen it looks as though it may be in the running for the best box office year ever. And when you take into account worldwide grosses, “Transformers” is already second on the list, at $387.3 million. Of interest is that the numberone grossing movie worldwide didn’t even make the US top ten: Angels & Demons, which has taken in an astounding $461.1 million since its release on May 15. Source: Box Office Mojo
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and quickly stopping the reported vehicle. Inside they found items taken from the residence, including two rifles and a shotgun, a flatscreen TV, a laptop computer and some cash and jewelry, as well as a small amount of drugs they had in their possession.
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hotel on what had been dispatched as an assault call, but turned out to be— in his words—a “lunatic” call. The complainant claimed he had been assaulted under a bridge but had no visible injuries. During the course of speaking with the officer, he began rambling about his youth and his exploits as a young baseball player. At which point, according to officer Roberts, “Incredibly, an ambulance was summoned by a member of the hotel staff and the man was wastefully whisked off to Erlanger Hospital for unneeded medical treatment.” Photo by Staff Photographer Damien Power
A German film crew takes in soccer practice at Finley Stadium.