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mamma, don't let your babies grow up to be car thieves
momma, don't let your babies grow up to be car thieves so today at work, in lovely, scenic mt. rainier, i was going over a list of stuff with my boss, my coworker chris was in the kitchen making coffee with other coworker toby, when all of a sudden, chris looks out the window and sees 3 black kids breaking into his truck (which had a silver vespa in the bed because he had literally returned to the shop 12 minutes earlier from a vespa dealership) and yells "shit! toby! they're stealing my truck- toby and chris run out the office door and around the building, i'm running after them and say 'no...i'm calling 911' so i call 911 who have to transfer me 3 times to the mount rainier police- as i'm on the phone with the dispatcher, i see one kid already in the truck, one climbs in, chris reaches in and grabs something, second kid climbs back out, the third goes to the truck, brandishes something like a belt, comes at chris i don't see what happens next because they're close to the side of the building and i'm on the 2nd floor and they're around the side the kid then goes back to the truck and then i see him throw a rock at chris, he finally gets back in the truck and they back away toby chases after them and chucks a shovel like a spear in an attempt to shatter the windshield but they were rolling by that point. during the confrontation when i saw chris reach into the truck and snatch something and the 2nd kid got out for a second and chris sees it's an ID of a very obviously white guy so chris yells to toby the truck they were currently in was stolen (natch- which is why there was no license plate on the front i'm guessing) and to call the police toby, i think, tells him i'm already on the phone with them. they drive off and three minutes later the cops come. it was a pretty nerve wracking day in general i think. i think we're probably all lucky they weren't armed. i just can't believe how close and brazen they were. i mean, it was fucking noon. there are tons of people around. i think they must have seen chris driving back and followed him and waited for him to park because they were on that vespa in no time flat. and had they only wanted to steal the vespa, they probably would have gotten away without an altercation. but the kid who broke into chris' truck also stole chris' bag which had his keychain on it which means they have the keys to the shop. not that i think they'll come back- i think they were stupid kids who got lucky once with the black ram truck and thought they'd get lucky again. not counting on a bunch of plucky artists who are fed up with having shit done to them in mt. rainier. i got an incredibly good look at two of those shits. i hope they get caught. i would remember those faces anywhere...
6:46 p.m. - 2006-05-01
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