Last night was the biggest fiasco yet. I was out with a friend and I had my Apple Laptop in my car so that we could listen to music, when he went home I swung by another friends house to say hello. When I came out to my car again after just a short time, I realized the laptop was missing.
I felt sick, how can somebody do that to me. Forgetting the lost $2000, I would loose all my music, all my photo's, all video projects and all my other documents. I literally thought I was going to throw up.
We called the police who were polite but less than hopeful. I waited for what seemed like forever for them to arrive, eating chocolate after chocolate in hopes of easing "the pain". In reality it took about 20 minutes for them to get there, which is still too long. But there is more to the story in between. After we called, I prayed to God that it would be returned, that the thieves would have remorse, that the police would find them....anything. I knew it was only monetary, but I hoped God would still care and praying was all I could do.
It turns out I was lucky that police took so long to get there, because while I sat waiting for them, I saw a male and female slowly approach my car, I watched them through the window of the house, and when he looked in my car, I worried, called to my friends parents who went outside as the two suspects ran. My friends father chased them down the street shouting at them to return the computer. The man was fast, but the woman of less than five feet could not keep up. "Father" (as I will call him from now on) hid in the dark of the trees they had run into and he listened to the rustling of feet. Shouting "Are you going to come out, or will I have to come in after you!", "Father", waited patiently. Suddenly the stout woman jumped out crying "It wasn't me", "father" lunged and grabbed her by the arm pulling her back towards his house. She did not struggle, but was not happy to be caught. as they got into the light , I saw she was about 40. "mother", (my friends mom), ran towards her shouting in her elementary school teachers voice, "SHAME ON YOU! What are you thinking, who does that? You are childish and disgusting, SHAME ON YOU!". "Mother" was on the phone with the cops again, who had not arrived. As we held the woman in custody. The police on the phone asked us to describe her and "mother" did a fantastic job, we looked at her, asked her her name, age (46, honestly), accomplices name and his age, their address, jobs and she spilled it all. She felt so bad and kept saying how she had not wanted to do it, but her husband thought they could get away. I calmly asked her why, and she could not really answer. All she said was how sorry she was and how bad she felt I would loose all my important documents. It made me want to cry seeing her, this grown woman, caught in a random act and so disgusted at herself. I wanted to hug her and she held back tears, but decided not to. The cops came and took her away, she told them the laptop was back at their house and she would lead them to the apartment. The cops arrived later without having found the computer of her husband to take statements, as this was finishing up, we all heard on the cops radio "We have found the man and the computer is safe", The cops left and returned minutes later with the laptop in hand and unharmed.
I was so happy...relieved, and thankful . So many things went perfectly. If they had not come back to look for more I would never know who took it. If the cops had come right away after the first call, when the thieves did return they would have ran away before anyone saw them. If my friends father had been asleep, as it was 1:00 am, he would never have caught them. So many things went right for me and I am so thankful for it all.
I hope those two "adults" have learned their lesson.
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