Bunny Napper Nabbed in Dahlonega

The real Alice was not available for a photograph.

Alice, a fluffy brown bunny, was kidnapped right from his (yes his...Alice is a boy) home in a classroom at Lumpkin Middle School. Alice, the beloved pet bunny of LMS teacher Suzanne Davis, was snatched during a break-in at the school.

While the break-in was bad enough - the vandals spray painted a boys' bathroom - the bunny napping was un-nerving. Not only did the kidnappers take Alice, but they also grabbed his food and water bottle, too.

Alice, who is house-broken, spends his day watching the kids in Ms. Davis' science classes. So, you can imagine who upset the six graders were over their missing bunny.

The Lumpkin County Sheriff's deputies were called in to investigate Alice's disappearance (oh and the spray painting, too.) The two deputies, who admitted they had never worked on a bunny napping case, used video surveillance footage to identify and track the culprit down.

When the sheriff's department "raided" the bunny napper's home, Alice was found alive and well, hidden in a backyard shed.

The story of Alice, the stolen bunny, made the front page of the local Dahlonega newspaper. Seeing two smiling deputies and a cuddly brown bunny made a good news story. In today's world, we need more happy bunny stories.

Inmates Love Lumpkin Toilet Water

It seems that the Lumpkin County Detention Center was a hot bed of activity this month. According to The Dahlonega Nugget's Crimebeat this week -

• An inmate was sprayed with pepper-spray after stuffing her jumpsuit in the toilet, trying to flood her cell. Afterwards, we hope the deputies gave her a dry, clean jumpsuit sans pepper spray and toilet water.
• Another inmate was handcuffed and tased to stop him from splashing toilet water on his face. Gee, the toilet water at the Lumpkin jail must be extra special.
• And an inmate was restrained after repeatedly banging his head on the cell door. Ooh, talk about a sore head. Hope the deputies gave him some Excedrin Migraine afterwards.

But probably the most interesting items in Crimebeat were the reports of the Segway damaged when a Lumpkin County deputy "bumped" the two wheeler into a step at the city park and a man's two-year-old identifying the neighbor's children as the ones who threw rocks at the man's truck. Love to see that case go to trial. Two-year-olds always make terrific witnesses.

As always, Dahlonega and Beyond has its share of crime, just not the Page One Atlanta Journal & Constitution type. (Thank goodness.)