Man found living atop Georgia Waffle House
Some people eat at the Waffle House so much it feels like home.
Friendly waitresses only add to the charm.
The first Waffle House is now a museum in Avondale Estates.
But there’s no denying the popular roadside eateries are also weirdo magnets.
Something wacky can happen at any minute. Kid Rock may be throwing punches, or cooking up grub while meeting and greeting local fans. Or maybe a famed tiny outlaw is doing his “Little Houdini” impersonation and slipping away from a hungry deputy.
In Augusta Tuesday, an air conditioner repairman found a man living atop a Gordon Highway location in what was described as a temporary shelter, according to Augusta’s ABC station.
Waffle House managers aren’t allowed to talk about the incident, and firefighters called to the scene to pluck him off the roof didn’t identify the man or know how long he was up there.
The rooftop denizen was taken to a local hospital for dehydration. It’s a good thing too, it’s going to be hotter than a Texas Melt today.
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Rex
May 11th, 2011
5:28 pm
@1stcav, yeah you’re really serving God and your fellow man when you imply that the millions of people who voted for the President are somehow “inferior” to your superlative way of life. People like you give Christianity a terrible name, so please keep your judgmental comments to yourself and go about “ministering” to those who “you” feel are deserving. It makes you all warm inside, I’m sure. BTW, Jesus was a liberal.
MeaneyMouse
May 11th, 2011
5:57 pm
HEYYYY YOU DANGED WOODCHUCKS!! QUIT CHUCKING MY WOOD!!
God
May 11th, 2011
6:07 pm
You are all going to hell.
maybe his last name is Waffle
May 11th, 2011
6:09 pm
so that’s his house, right?
debra
May 11th, 2011
6:21 pm
Waffle House may be known as redneck central but they have darn good food, and it is always entertaining in there. I worked there many moons ago, and as far as I know, I am still the only person to have ever closed a waffle house. I came in for my shift, 11 pm to 7 am, but nobody else showed, and the idiot manager went home and left me alone. And i tried
I cooked, waited tables, and shouted “I am alone so it’s going to be a wait”, until every dish was dirty and I was way over my head. I got everybody out, put a “closed” sign taped to the door, locked it, and called regional. I sat down and waited, expected to be fired. I wasn’t fired but that manager was. 
this was way back before robbery was a hobby 
CatOnAHotTinRoof
May 11th, 2011
6:35 pm
Guy’s lucky the WH cooks didn’t find him first, he mighta wound up an ingredient in the chile special.
Tool Man Dan
May 11th, 2011
6:46 pm
There is always someone that can not find humor in the humorous. “Oh, the homeless should not be laughed at”. Oh the poor people should be able to live in churches”. We better laugh now peeps because the way our economy is going, we could all be living on Waffle House roofs. I take my humor as it comes and I am not ashamed. Go hug a tree Brenda.
Ross
May 11th, 2011
7:45 pm
Some things are not funny – prison rape, cancer, homelessness. Those who are homeless are often worse than dead, because they no longer exist, nor have they any eternal rest – there is no place to lie down, no place to use the bathroom, a life where being cold and filthy surpasses even being hungry in awful existential horror. America is a cruel land, and those without anywhere to live suffer the full fury of its cruelty.
Barry O
May 11th, 2011
7:53 pm
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Anonymous
May 11th, 2011
8:49 pm
I work at Waffle House, (not that one or anywhere near it), and am trying to figure out how he was getting on and off the roof. There wasn’t a ladder that he could just climb right on up with. Doesn’t make any sense.