LOCAL EXCITEMENT...
For a small Indiana county that only has a population of just over 24,000, the past 3 days have been abnormal in terms of 'excitement'.
First off, some idiot held up the county seat's only laudramat. Yeah, that's right, a laundramat!!!
Obviously, this bright light eventually figured out there isn't a whole of money in a laundramat, so approximately 40 minutes later he held up the branch of my local bank! (It probably took him that long to count the proceeds from the laundramat?) The bank people hit the alarms and the chase was on. He crashes, jumps out of the vehicle, tries to enter one residence, it's locked and as he about to enter a 2nd residence, a city police officer shoots him in the gut. Of course, by now there are all kinds of uniforms, police vehicles, flashing lights and yellow tape in the vicinity.
It makes the local news, but the 'twitter' and 'text' lines spread the news even faster. The wife comes home from work with more details than the 6:00 o'clock news. I had to go online to verify what she had heard. Seriously!
Then the next day another potential Rhodes Scholar hold ups first a 'stop-and-rob' gas station in the same town at 3:45AM and a second one in another part of town at 4:30AM. Big Mistake on the 2nd one! He got some money in the first one, but Indiana is a BIG citizen concealed carry state, as he discovered quite quickly at the 2nd location. The woman working behind the counter at the 2nd store introduced him to her own personal protection device and he left! She didn't shoot. She just pointed it straight at him and told him to leave!
But then later he hit another gas station in a town in the north end of the county. He said he had a gun, but no gun was displayed at the 3rd location. He, however, is still on the loose as they weren't as foresighted as the lady in 2nd store.
Then just to keep everyone on their toes, some dude murdered his girlfriend and then offed himself, the same morning the po-po in the county seat were searching for the latest Rhodes Scholar candidate.
Sleepy little towns sometimes aren't so sleepy. Latest word is the bank robbery suspect is still quite critical for what the news relates as an "abdomen hit". That one was definitely a .40 caliber handgun, but I'm not sure if was a Federal HydraShok or something else as I don't know any more what the county seat city police are issuing?
Any way that bad guy was armed so I'm glad it was a one shot 'exchange'...
All The Best,
Frank W. James
First off, some idiot held up the county seat's only laudramat. Yeah, that's right, a laundramat!!!
Obviously, this bright light eventually figured out there isn't a whole of money in a laundramat, so approximately 40 minutes later he held up the branch of my local bank! (It probably took him that long to count the proceeds from the laundramat?) The bank people hit the alarms and the chase was on. He crashes, jumps out of the vehicle, tries to enter one residence, it's locked and as he about to enter a 2nd residence, a city police officer shoots him in the gut. Of course, by now there are all kinds of uniforms, police vehicles, flashing lights and yellow tape in the vicinity.
It makes the local news, but the 'twitter' and 'text' lines spread the news even faster. The wife comes home from work with more details than the 6:00 o'clock news. I had to go online to verify what she had heard. Seriously!
Then the next day another potential Rhodes Scholar hold ups first a 'stop-and-rob' gas station in the same town at 3:45AM and a second one in another part of town at 4:30AM. Big Mistake on the 2nd one! He got some money in the first one, but Indiana is a BIG citizen concealed carry state, as he discovered quite quickly at the 2nd location. The woman working behind the counter at the 2nd store introduced him to her own personal protection device and he left! She didn't shoot. She just pointed it straight at him and told him to leave!
But then later he hit another gas station in a town in the north end of the county. He said he had a gun, but no gun was displayed at the 3rd location. He, however, is still on the loose as they weren't as foresighted as the lady in 2nd store.
Then just to keep everyone on their toes, some dude murdered his girlfriend and then offed himself, the same morning the po-po in the county seat were searching for the latest Rhodes Scholar candidate.
Sleepy little towns sometimes aren't so sleepy. Latest word is the bank robbery suspect is still quite critical for what the news relates as an "abdomen hit". That one was definitely a .40 caliber handgun, but I'm not sure if was a Federal HydraShok or something else as I don't know any more what the county seat city police are issuing?
Any way that bad guy was armed so I'm glad it was a one shot 'exchange'...
All The Best,
Frank W. James
Labels: Amazement, Ammunition, Crime
4 Comments:
Just isn't supposed to happen in small towns, is it?
Guess Mayberry ain't what it used to be! (Maybe it never was!)
BTW, now that you've retired from farming and have all these endless hours on your hands (ahem), I hope you'll consider disabling word verification. Blogger's new spam filter seems to be working pretty good for me, so far.
HAHA! Bank robbery must be the new trend.
Happened in a next town south here Thursday. The would be robber waked out of the bank and back to his house 3 blocks away.
"They" followed him and then called the cops, who swarmed the place, arrested said bad guy and got the 3K he got from the teller.
At least it gave the local paper something to write about for the last three days.
Speaking of small town excitement...in a small town near here, every bank (4 in total, I think...)in town was robbed by a guy. On a bicycle. And he got away with it for a while, if I recall correctly.
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