Saturday, May 22, 2010
The Blotter The Blotter
Posted by Lauren Keating on Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM
BITE THE DUST: A 33-year-old woman said her dental retainer disappeared while she was at work. (She's a gate agent at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.) She said she took her dental retainer out of her mouth, wrapped it in white tissue and put it on a counter near her computer. Then, she said, she walked down the jetway to a plane. She said after the plane pulled away from the gate, she returned to the counter and her dental retainer was gone. She said she asked a female passenger sitting nearby if she saw anything suspicious. The passenger reportedly said a woman wearing tan pants and a gray T-shirt walked up to the counter and grabbed something, but she couldn't see the item in her hand.
The gate agent figured out the suspect's name and told police the suspect already left on a flight to Dothan, Ala., and would arrive in about an hour. She said she called Dothan Airport police, but they wouldn't do anything without a police report. So she filed a police report. No word on if the woman's dental retainer was returned. The dental retainer is worth $700.
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