Ok so I was up late the other night… very late in fact. It was around 3am and I had my windows open because it was a particularly warm night. I heard some shouting from down the street but thought nothing about it because I live fairly close to a college and there are a number of student housing near me (late night parties, drinking, fighting, etc). So anyway, I finish up what I’m doing and I hear some kids running down the street. I looked out and saw two kids, in their early 20′s, hauling butt down the street (one of them was putting a backpack on while he was running). While they were running by, one of them looked up to my office window and stared right at me for about 3 seconds. I didn’t really think anything about it until I saw all the police cars about 5 minutes later. A million questions ran through my head. Should I have done something? Should I have yelled out at them? Run after them?
Anyway, I went out with my dog and went down the street to see what was going on and as it turns out, they had tried to break into a car but the owner (a woman) caught them. They got away and no one was hurt.. but that could have been very scary, and dangerous. There’s no saying what they would have done had they been cornered and felt they couldn’t get away without a fight.
So I spoke with the police and gave my description of the boys, and then I spoke with the owner of the car. It turns out, she had an older car alarm that was set to silent but would alert through her key chain. The kids were so scared by the owner coming out that they dropped most of their loot, which included several GPS’s, a dozen sunglasses, about a hundred CDs, and a few wallets. What a stash! Who knows what they had in the other backpack the kid took with him?!
I took my dog for a nice walk around the neighborhood and around a nearby school (figuring if I was in their shoes, I’d find a nice quiet backyard or corner of the school to hide out in) but neither I nor my dog could pick up the trail. I wasn’t concerned if I had found them because I’ve taken years of martial arts training and most people would choose to avoid confrontation with someone with a dog. (my dog doesn’t like people hiding and he’s pretty good at sniffing people out… that and he’s really good at picking up people’s emotions and intentions)
Anyway, that was just an interesting event in my neighborhood the other day… anyone have a story they want to share?
