If Hayseed County had a newspaper (which they don't) and if they had a police beat (which sadly they don't) it would have run something like this today:
Yesterday a bike was stolen from victims front yard. Later that evening the perp. was seen riding the victims bike around the streets near his home. The victim got in his car and followed the perp on the bike and apprehended the perp. for stealing his bike and asked for it back. The perp. (a teenager) claimed "an old man" gave it to him. The victim took the perp. and bike to the old man's house and in fact the old man had given the perp. the bike after finding 2 bikes sitting against his fence that morning and not knowing what to do with them he saw the perp. who old man said "was a nice young man" and gave the perp. the bike and took the other bike to the police station. The victim then told the perp. sorry, but he was taking his bike home. To which the perp. relied, "awwww mannnnnn." It is unknown why the old man didn't take both bikes to the police station.
Yep, that's how it all went down! Way to go Zack! He took matters into his own hands and got his bike back. Boo Yeah. He said he felt bad taking the bike back since the kid was so disappointed and had been fixing it up all afternoon and was going to use it to ride to work. But in the end, it was our bike, so- sorry kid. Of course his story sounded fishy, but in the end it was true. He was just an innocent victim as well. Luckily that explains why he was riding it around on streets near our house which wouldn't have been too smart if he had stolen it from our house himself.
Why do strange things always happen to us? Remember our stolen car that was returned twice?
1 comment:
I've already told a couple people about this story, but I realized I never commented on your blog about it. How do you guys keep having such strange experiences with theft?? Good job, Zack, for chasing the kid down and getting the whole story. I'm glad he got his bike back -- geesh.
So where exactly are you living? And for how long will you be there? Will you be moving to a bigger city soon? How far are you from where Zack is teaching? So many questions!
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