Soldato
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Well,
Was awoke at 3:30 this morning by the doorbell being rang and pounding on the front door. Shambling downstairs, bleary eyed and thoroughly discombobulated, I was greeted by the sight of a rather young looking Police Officer asking me to step outside and identify a vehicle on our drive. It was my mother's '08 plate Focus CC, passenger's side door and the glovebox wide open. Apparently the Police had drove through our area in the hope of catching a suspect who had broken into another car a few streets away, and had happened upon said scrote as he was routing through my mother's car, illuminated in the wan glow of the interior light. He subsequently took off running, but after a rather embarrassingly short pursuit, was arrested on the drive of a house barely 5 doors down the street, caught red handed with a bag full of stuff nicked from various cars across the area that evening. He was being hauled to his feet and unceremoniously stuffed into the back of a Police van when I stepped outside, while other officers were searching under the neighbours car for his ill gotten gains.
And the cause of all this drama? I suspect the scatty cow that is my mother hadn't locked her car, as there was no sign of forced entry at all, and both keys were accounted for. Check your doors before you walk away eh? I realise that it's easy to get complacent with remote central locking. We were lucky the Police just happened to swing by, he'd have gotten away with a TomTom and two wallets full of CD's if they hadn't.
Cool story bro, etc.
Was awoke at 3:30 this morning by the doorbell being rang and pounding on the front door. Shambling downstairs, bleary eyed and thoroughly discombobulated, I was greeted by the sight of a rather young looking Police Officer asking me to step outside and identify a vehicle on our drive. It was my mother's '08 plate Focus CC, passenger's side door and the glovebox wide open. Apparently the Police had drove through our area in the hope of catching a suspect who had broken into another car a few streets away, and had happened upon said scrote as he was routing through my mother's car, illuminated in the wan glow of the interior light. He subsequently took off running, but after a rather embarrassingly short pursuit, was arrested on the drive of a house barely 5 doors down the street, caught red handed with a bag full of stuff nicked from various cars across the area that evening. He was being hauled to his feet and unceremoniously stuffed into the back of a Police van when I stepped outside, while other officers were searching under the neighbours car for his ill gotten gains.
And the cause of all this drama? I suspect the scatty cow that is my mother hadn't locked her car, as there was no sign of forced entry at all, and both keys were accounted for. Check your doors before you walk away eh? I realise that it's easy to get complacent with remote central locking. We were lucky the Police just happened to swing by, he'd have gotten away with a TomTom and two wallets full of CD's if they hadn't.
Cool story bro, etc.
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