After four days of really feeling badly, losing interest in most things except sleep, and being sort of confused or easily befuddled, first due to lack of medicine, then as result of TAKING the medicine, I have been lax about this blogging business. Also, the foggy state of my brain kept me from focusing on any one of so many events, celebrity and other deaths, weird news stories, and aliens (ET's). After getting some steroids and anti-biotics on board, I am feeling much better.
So I am more in the weird news mode tonight, and this story snagged my attention immediately! Here is a link, although there are many more:
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/deputies-alleged-burglar-killed-alligator-while-fl/npdzS/
The burglar suspect (and I emphasize "suspect" as he was not charged with this crime or others that I know of) was running from the police after a home owner caught him and his partner in the act. I do not know whether this man was an "outdoorsman" type or whether he was an urban guy. Either way, he eluded pursuing deputies by climbing down into a stock tank that was unfortunately near an open waterway. The young possible burglar was very cool. While in the pond he used his cellular phone to call his spouse and tell her he was hiding from the police. The woman could hear the police radios in the background during the phone call. The young man told her the deputies were getting close and ended the phone call. It turned out that the deputies did not see him and continued past his place of concealment as they pressed the manhunt.
Fast forward three days. A very upset, near hysterical woman calls the local sheriff's office to report her husband missing. And she has the courage to tell the police the circumstances concerning her man's disappearance. The police return to the last place they saw the suspected burglar - at the little stock pond. A short search produces remnants of a person, with just enough clothing and other details to positively identify him as the cat-burglar with a suddenly shortened career.
Crime does not always pay, and many times it cost the criminal more than he will ever make as a thief. Alligators, on the other hand, do not discriminate between criminals and honest persons - both are just tasty morsels to a hungry reptile. To all burglars in the deep south, DO NOT HIDE WITH THE ALLIGATORS UNLESS YOU KNOW THEY HAVE ALREADY EATEN.
(while this is a tongue-in-cheek posting, my sympathy to the family who lost a loved one. He was wrong to choose a life of crime, but his crimes (if he indeed committed them) would not have drawn the death penalty. Some commenters called this instant justice; however, the Good Book tell us that the thief who breaks in and steals in the daylight does not deserve death.)
So I am more in the weird news mode tonight, and this story snagged my attention immediately! Here is a link, although there are many more:
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/deputies-alleged-burglar-killed-alligator-while-fl/npdzS/
The burglar suspect (and I emphasize "suspect" as he was not charged with this crime or others that I know of) was running from the police after a home owner caught him and his partner in the act. I do not know whether this man was an "outdoorsman" type or whether he was an urban guy. Either way, he eluded pursuing deputies by climbing down into a stock tank that was unfortunately near an open waterway. The young possible burglar was very cool. While in the pond he used his cellular phone to call his spouse and tell her he was hiding from the police. The woman could hear the police radios in the background during the phone call. The young man told her the deputies were getting close and ended the phone call. It turned out that the deputies did not see him and continued past his place of concealment as they pressed the manhunt.
Fast forward three days. A very upset, near hysterical woman calls the local sheriff's office to report her husband missing. And she has the courage to tell the police the circumstances concerning her man's disappearance. The police return to the last place they saw the suspected burglar - at the little stock pond. A short search produces remnants of a person, with just enough clothing and other details to positively identify him as the cat-burglar with a suddenly shortened career.
Crime does not always pay, and many times it cost the criminal more than he will ever make as a thief. Alligators, on the other hand, do not discriminate between criminals and honest persons - both are just tasty morsels to a hungry reptile. To all burglars in the deep south, DO NOT HIDE WITH THE ALLIGATORS UNLESS YOU KNOW THEY HAVE ALREADY EATEN.
(while this is a tongue-in-cheek posting, my sympathy to the family who lost a loved one. He was wrong to choose a life of crime, but his crimes (if he indeed committed them) would not have drawn the death penalty. Some commenters called this instant justice; however, the Good Book tell us that the thief who breaks in and steals in the daylight does not deserve death.)
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