She Came By It Honestly

I suddenly remembered something tonight.  Thomas was able to identify burglars several years back, also!!

It was a few years before Eler Beth was born, and we still lived in an apartment.  Early one morning Thomas was leaving for work.  He'd just gotten into his car and was getting ready to back out of the parking space when a truck roared into our parking lot, screeched to a stop and a man jumped out and ran between two of the apartment buildings and up a little hill. 

As Thomas drove off he jotted down the the license number of the truck in the only thing he had handy to write on:  the back page of  his Bible, lying in the passenger seat next to him!

When he got to work he called me, woke me up and told me he thought something was going on and to make sure I kept the doors locked all day and to be careful if Andrew and I went out.  He gave me the license number and description of the truck and told me if I heard of anything having happened in the area to call the police.

After work on his way home he passed this little store that is on the highway behind our apartment building, and he saw that they had a board over their front window.  They were open, though, so he stopped and went in.

"So, what happened to your window?"

"Someone tried to break in and rob the place last night," the clerk said.  "They stole some merchandise and took the cash register.  I don't know why; there wasn't any money in it.  We found it out back behind the store.  Looked like they'd tried to bust it open, but couldn't"

"Catch the ones who did it?"

"No."

"Well, let me tell you what I saw early this morning."

He told what he'd seen and gave the guy a description of the truck and the license plate number.  The clerk got our phone number and later the police called to talk to him.  They found the driver of the truck who spilled everything on his "buddy", the one, he said, who'd actually done the burglarizing.  Then he told about several other robberies his "buddy" had done in the previous few weeks -- robberies for which the police investigations had gone nowhere until that day!  They issued a warrant for the other guy.  I don't know if they caught him or not, but they got back all the merchandise they'd taken from that store behind us!

Apparently they'd busted the window, grabbed some stuff and taken the register out and left it behind the building.  Then they'd pulled into our apartment complex and the one guy had jumped out of the truck and run up to the back of the store and tried to get into the cash register.  Guess they didn't want to take the time to try to get into it with their truck parked outside the store.

Anyway, I just remembered that and thought it was kind of funny!  The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!