Regional Roundup: Human Bones Found, Unusual Write-In Votes and Hot Selling Protest Sandwiches

-- Lawrenceville Patch

Neighbors near 1414 Azalea Drive in unincorporated Lawrenceville discovered human remains there Sunday afternoon. 

Gwinnett County Police Detectives are considering this to be a “suspicious death” and will investigate it as such.

They believe the victim to be a black female between the ages of 16 and 30. She was found wearing a T-shirt from a memorial function for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 2008.

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– East Cobb Patch

Some Cobb voters were so unimpressed with the available candidates on the nonpartisan ballot that they instead cast write-in votes for Batman, Scooby Doo, Santa or Snoopy.

In Tuesday’s primary elections, voters didn’t have the option to write in candidates for party races because Democrats and Republicans were only deciding whom to send to the general election in November.

But any person, animal, letter, cartoon character or, ahem, reproductive organ were fair game in the nonpartisan elections. In total for Cobb, there are 207 pages worth of Anybody Else, No Vote, Me, Bozo, Big Bird, Awesome Bill from Dawsonville and other write-ins from Tuesday.

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– East Atlanta Patch

To Chris Cooper, a co-owner of the  in East Atlanta Village, Chick-fil-A is free to take a stance on social issues.

"But when your stance is oppression and isn't based on tolerance and acceptance, it's entirely a different thing," Cooper told East Atlanta Patch.

In response to the  over president Dan Cathy’s statements opposing same-sex marriage, Flatiron created the "Godless Fried Chicken Lesbian Sandwich.” The eatery joined another East Atlanta food favorite, , which  in response to Chick-fil-A's position.

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