I see on the 6 pm CBS news 1/21/11, that a David Cranford of Marietta was arrested on a Felony charge due to an argument with an AJC delivery person who was in the neighborhood tossing crap onto peoples lawns.  See video at:  http://www.cbsatlanta.com/local-video/index.html

Seems he tossed a piece of paper into her open back window to illustrate a point that people do NOT like strangers to throw trash onto their property, whether it is the AJC throwing garbage onto private property or some citizen throwing a piece of paper into some jerks car. Anyway it seems that the charges were almost immediately dropped.

Just another reason that THE AJC TOTALLY SUCKS!

If you are one of the 190,000 people that read this dispicable rag every day, here is an idea.  Don't.  Just don't buy one from a box and DO NOT subscribe! 

Buying even one of these papers just encourages these morons.  Those of us who have lived in the metro area for the last 10 or so years know just what a joke this paper has become, I guess you could use it to wrap dead fish in but frankly what did the fish do to you to deserve it.  So STOP buying this rag. 

The sooner you do then the sooner this 3rd rate rag will go out of business.

Here is the CBS Text of the report FYI:

Man Arrested After Confronting AJC Delivery Driver


David Cranford Charged With Terroristic Threat
By Lesley Tanner, CBS Atlanta Reporter

MARIETTA, Ga. -- For months CBS Atlanta has reported complaints about the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's ad circular, the Reach. Residents all over metro Atlanta say the papers stuffed in plastic bags become litter, and one Marietta man's confrontation with a delivery driver landed him in jail.

"I tried to get her to stop throwing the papers out here, see who I needed to talk to about doing that," said David Cranford.  Cranford said that confrontation lead to his arrest. When the driver refused to stop and talk, Cranford said he noticed her open back window and tossed in a folded up piece of paper. His neighbor, Mark O'Brien, saw the whole thing.

"He said, 'Well how would you feel if people threw stuff on your property,'" said O'Brien. "The back window was down and he just threw that piece of paper in the back window."

"She slams on her brakes, calling me a drunken idiot," said Cranford. "One thing lead to another and we got in a shouting match."

The shouting match ended when the driver called her supervisor and then police. "I thought it was a good idea to call police," said Cranford. "I'd like to have them out here myself."

But after hearing both sides, a Cobb County officer arrested Cranford and charged him with making terroristic threats, a felony. A police spokesman said when someone throws something into a moving vehicle, that's the most appropriate charge. Cranford was taken to jail where he spent several hours.

"It shouldn't have escalated to this, not whatsoever," said Cranford.  An AJC spokeswoman said the company wouldn't comment on the incident because it didn't involve one of their employees. Delivery drivers are hired by a separate distribution company, but Cranford disagreed.

"I think it is their matter," said Cranford. "She called her supervisor. Her supervisor works for that company."   The case against Cranford was dropped.

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Here is some good news!  2 more years of declining circulation and the AJC will be out of business!

See full article at:   http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2010/10/26/ajc-circulation-drops-14.html


The Atlanta-Journal Constitution’s paid circulation continued its decline in the past year. The Audit Bureau of Circulations’ preliminary numbers shows the Atlanta daily’s paid weekday circulation fell about 14 percent (from 211,420 in September 2009) to 181,504 in September 2010.

Its weekday paid circulation was 274,062 in September 2008.