Thursday morning, I noticed a headline on the front virtual page of the Local Hillmomban. "City Employee Spots Theft, Calls Police." Of course. That's the right thing to do. Snitch.
A water department employee saw two men and a woman acting suspiciously. I'm guessing they were not future Oscar material, because this worker didn't buy their act. They were going door-to-door, and circling houses. He called the police, and gave a description of their car, a red Dodge Intrepid.
One of the Bad Boys, Bad Boys pair took a package off a porch and put it in the back of the car. The city worker followed them down the Lake Road. Police caught up to them and turned on lights and sirens. They'd radioed ahead to the next police department, who had set up at the bridge at the city limits, by the quarry.
The Intrepid slowed down to let the Bad Girl out at THE GUN CLUB! She took off through a field, and a policeman tackled her and she complained of medical issues and was taken to the hospital, but then released to the police. The Bad Boys, Bad Boys blew past the police set up at the bridge, and after a short chase ended up at The Devil's Playground. One was taken into custody on the parking lot, and the other ran inside the store.
A cop pursued on foot, but there just happened to be an off-duty reserve officer shopping inside The Devil's Playground, and he "snatched the guy and put him on the ground." So I imagine he slammed that Bad Boy, Bad Boy face first to the polished granite that has replaced industrial tile.
Anyhoo...they were all from the next county north of Hillmomba. One guy was 41, one 39, and the woman was 45. She had warrants. They were all booked, and went to jail. Charges include traffic charges, fleeing, resisting arrest, and stealing.
I'm pretty sure they wouldn't circle the Mansion more than once. If Copper Jack was here.
I'm so glad someone snitched and those package thieves got nabbed. There's your tax dollars at work right there. Goodonya, boysinblue.
ReplyDeleteRiver,
ReplyDeleteMe too! I hate it when people get away with that! They probably got the idea from watching other ne'er-do-wells on YouTube. I LOVE snitches!
That's what the world needs today, more snitches! I used to get so mad when kids would get caught cheating by looking up math (not basic math, the higher Advanced Placement trig and calculus) answers online, or buying a teacher's edition from Amazon, and then other kids would say, "Everybody knew they were doing it, I'm glad they got caught." Yet 'everybody' refused to snitch.
Because school snitches get beaten up behind the sports sheds.
ReplyDeleteRiver,
ReplyDeleteThe Newmentia student body was craftier than that "sports sheds" tactic. They didn't want to get kicked out for fighting, so fights were planned after school, off school property. Which was sometimes kind of hard to arrange, when most of them rode a bus home.
They usually agreed to meet at a local park to fight out their beefs. But the police kept showing up. So then it would be at someone's house. The kids knew, though, that they couldn't fight right after they climbed off the bus, or they were still considered the responsibility of the school. So they first had to step into their own yard, THEN go wherever they were going to fight.