As I approached my local Sherwin Williams store yesterday, I noticed a Meadville's Finest Police car in the parking lot. Buying paint? Maybe. Then the officer came out the door and walked around to the side of the building. Hmmm.
I went inside, not stamping snow off my shoes for the first time ever in that store, and asked "Did we have a break-in or something?" W - e - e - l - l - l . . . It turned out that someone had come in the night with fourteen bags of garbage and dumped it - not IN the dumpster, which might have gone unnoticed, but in FRONT of the dumpster, which couldn't possibly go unnoticed.
I already had the guitar licks of "The Alice's Restaurant Massacree, In Four Part Harmony And Full Orchestration" going through my head, when Officer Opie came back in with an envelope bearing the name and address of the alleged perpetrator of the biggest crime of the last fifty years. It was a Government Housing address, and the letter was a notice that the Government was sending an Inspector to said address. Evidently, the perp didn't want the inspector to see the half ton of garbage in said Government Housing. The officer (not really Opie) then went to said address to inform said perp that he'd found the envelope at the bottom of a half ton of garbage. "Yessir, Officer Opie, I cannot tell a lie. I put that envelope under that garbage."
CSI Meadville!
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I am away for a few days and a crime spurt hits Meadville! Who knew all the action was at the SW dumpster. I also enjoyed the year in review, quite a year, and I am so glad that one is over!
I think you and my husband belong to a secret society of guys whose job it is to make The Cats Who Rule World have an easier time of it.
Tthat's Rule THE World. Sheesh
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