So I forgot to mention this, but the cops actually caught the guy who broke into the Modern Love Machine’s car. Color me shocked when we found out. The MLM and our neighbor were summoned to appear in court this morning to play the role witness while I, being off work until later in the day, decided to tag along as local court is one of my, let’s say, hobbies.
An aside: though local courts do not compare at all to Law and Order, they make up for it with the sheer ridiculousness of the people who are being processed there on a daily basis. You won’t get a lot of drama between lawyers, but you WILL get to observe a lot of dumb folks. When paired with an already confusing system, those folks can provide hours of free entertainment.
We showed up at court at 9 a.m., and within two and a half hours, the perp had decided he was going to plead guilty as part of a plea agreement, with the most important condition being he was going to owe the neighbors and us restitution for the broken vehicle windows (and, as the MLM made sure, for the MLM’s sunglasses that were purchased in Ireland). So either we’re going to get paid some cash money or at the very least the perp will be off the street and unavailable to break into our cars for a couple of years.
While we were waiting for the perp’s name to come up on the docket, I finally heard the story of how he got caught, which is a perfectly blogmade story. The perp called the cops to report that his car had been vandalized. When the cops entered the perp’s license plate number into the system, it came up as a match to what our neighbor had reported to the cops the morning he busted our windows. The car description matched too, and our neighbor was able to select the perp out of a lineup. Lock, stock and barrel.
More specifically, the perp had been sleeping with a friend’s girlfriend. That friend found out, got angry and — wait for it — busted the windows on the perp’s own vehicle, which was the crime the perp was reporting when the cops connected him to the crime against our vehicles.
Karma can be such a bitch.
Wow. Karma IS a bitch!
That story is AWESOME!
That’s a great story and totally worthy of it’s own Law and Order episode (only in TV land, someone should probably get killed. B/c most L&O episodes revolve around a dead person.)
YES! Perfect blog story.
Oh Karma…gotta love it! As for court, I say that normally you have to visit the bowling alley or an airport to see a circus like that, but yes, court would also be a good candidate for that level of entertainment.