A pair of Athens women got into a fight with a teenager outside the Kroger grocery store on College Station Road on Tuesday afternoon, after the teen made a comment about one of the women barking like a dog.
The 28-year-old woman explained to Athens-Clarke police that she has a condition that causes her to make a “strange hiccup type noise,” according to police. The noise happened to occur as she passed a 17-year-old and his younger brother, and the teen called her a “dog,” police said.