Charles Atkinson Was Kung-Fu Fighting…

Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting…
Those Guys Were Fast as Lighting…

I love living in the south. Born and bred here I love the weather, the beautiful countryside but I particularly love the colorful people you can find everywhere you go. People like Charles Atkinson from Manning, South Carolina for instance.

This past Wednesday Atkinson, otherwise known as “fatcat”, and his wife Jeanette had apparently been arguing with each other and not being one to let his wife have the last word (bad move there Chuck…) he decided to end the argument and head-butted his wife.

At that point their son Kyle jumped into the fray, attempting to help his mother out. Atkinson began hitting him with a broomstick and cut him on the neck and elbow.

Having been ganged up on, Atkinson decided to go for the big guns and pulled out a pair of nunchaku, otherwise known in these parts as nun-chucks. He started out by swinging the nun-chucks at his son but at some point changed his mind and decided that he needed to become the victim in the deal and began hitting himself with the nun-chucks.

When police arrived at the residence and interviewed the household they arrested Charles Atkinson and charged him with Criminal Domestic Violence. He was still lodged in the Clarendon County Jail as of last night.

In addition to the fun and games Atkinson has at home he appears to be a menace to society in Manning as a whole. He’s been stopped for exceeding the speed limit by more than 25 mph four times in just the last month. He was also the driver in an August accident that killed 19-year-old pregnant Nikki Geddings. The woman ended up being airlifted to a hospital in Columbia where the baby was saved. Although Atkinson was speeding at the time of that accident they charged the driver of the truck he hit rather than Fatcat.

Fatcat was also arrested in November for Shoplifting as well as Illegal Possession of a Weapon after he stole a pair of boots. When police arrested him after his excursion at the local Wal-Mart (it could only have happened there…) he was carrying a .25 pistol.

Back in June of this year Atkinson was arrested for Unlawful Carrying of a Pistol and Possession of a Controlled Substance. The drug charge was dismissed due to insufficient evidence but the gun charge is still pending.

Want to know something really scary? Charles Atkinson is a former deputy sheriff. Doh.

Damn, you just gotta love the south.

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