Tag Archives: #accpd

To Obstruct, Hinder, or Impede Free Passage

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Folks, I’ve been to Twilight. Heck, when I was there Saturday a part of me wanted to just pull up to a corner by the theater and spend the day ducking in and out of the Globe and watching crashes at the turn. It was also 3:30 pm when I walked back to my car, and the number of people who already had golden amber in hand and were obstructing my passage freely back to my car was already abundant.

I can’t imagine what it was like around midnight, then.

I have all due respect to LEOs, but this is some peak ACCPD pettiness if I’ve ever read it.

Also, this:

I then wonder if something like this ends up impacting Branch’s draft status, and, given his charitable work and otherwise upstanding character, if another lawsuit will follow?

Don’t Hate the Sinner, Hate the ACCPD

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This popped up last night on Twix. I have to say, as a former student and a person who’s maintained a relatively clean nose, the number of times I experienced being pulled over from police in Athens in a five-year span of time eclipses the number of times I’ve been pulled over anywhere else (once outside of Gainesville/Rabbit Town where the I-75 speed rapidly declined to the I-575 speed, and once in Panama City where you hit the bridge and the speed drops to, say, 18 miles per hour).

You have to click through the replies to see his whole thread, but the other replies that follows is worth a read.

Do we have a speeding problem in Athens, or an Athens problem in speeding? I think I already know EE’s response, but the word is starting to spread.

That’s His Story, and He’s Sticking to It

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Smael Mondon had his charges dropped.

https://twitter.com/brooksaustinba/status/1825558471301046388?s=46

The “Reckless Driving” charges got dropped, but before we go rushing to conclusions, here’s the details:

According to an Athens-Clarke County Police report, which was previously obtained by ESPN, a police officer saw two vehicles side-by-side accelerate “at a high rate of speed and begin to race one another.” Mondon was in the left lane, driving a 2022 black Dodge Charger, and his teammate, freshman defensive back Demello Jones, was in a 2021 gray Porsche Panamera.

According to the report, the officer paced Mondon at 75 mph in a 40 mph zone and pulled him over. Mondon denied racing and stated that he didn’t know the driver of the other vehicle. Jones then pulled over, though, and told the officer he was checking on his “teammate.”

The officer stated that Jones was released on a citation for racing because he voluntarily pulled over and was not the primary vehicle in the traffic stop. According to the report, as Jones was beginning to leave, Mondon “leaned over to [Jones] and stated: ‘Do not say anything in the group chat.'”

On the way to the jail, Mondon continued to deny that he knew Jones, according to the report. The officer asked Mondon about his remark about the group chat, and Mondon “changed the subject and began asking about my personal life.”

Sigh. Fast, rich, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. I’m sure that was just another Panamera that you see on every corner in Athens, right?

I hope the stairs were steep for those conditioning mea culpas.

And in a not-so-surprising twist of narrative, we now have this:

https://twitter.com/skinnydawg10/status/1825626276780208326?s=46

What exactly would we be paying the ACCPD for? Pretty sure if that was accurate, Chip Towers and company wouldn’t have anything to write about.