Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Puddle Ho

The other night some woman was sitting at the light on Glenwood Avenue, minding her own business, when an idiot in an SUV slammed into the side of her car and took off down T.W. Alexander Blvd. Of course, the SUV was so badly damaged the driver had to abandon it and fled on foot into the woods.

I have to say her life, that is, the suspect's, had to be a lesson in horror for the next hour. She fled barefoot into the woods after midnight with no flashlight. The K-9 officer arrived and we entered the woods and immediately started tracking. Her track meandered back and forth over hills, through briers, down a mud bank into a deep creek, and finally into a drainage ditch overlooking Glenwood Avenue. That's where we found her. Curled up in the foetal position in a mud puddle at least two feet deep. She was sobbing uncontrollably and noticeably drunk.

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