Police work is sometimes fraught with irony. Not today's misconceived definition of the word like, "Rain on your wedding day," but true irony where an act produces an outcome in direct opposition to the intended result. I had the misfortune of responding to an assault call in a bridal shop in downtown Raleigh. A young black woman and her mother entered the shop with a dress. The mother asked an attendant to measure her daughter and alter the garment, as the prom was a mere week away. The girl's father, recently paroled from prison, gave the dress to his daughter as a peace offering, wanting, after so many years as an outsider, to start a relationship with his daughter.
But this wasn't to be the happy reunion he expected. He stole the dress from the bridal shop, assuming it would fit perfectly and his crime would never be uncovered. But as the great "Murphy" once said, "Whatever can go wrong will." The bridal shop clerk recognized the stolen dress and notified the owner, who confronted mother and daughter. He tried to take the dress from the daughter and she struck him twice in the face, splitting his lip. The shop clerk called the police and I arrived.
Ultimately, the young woman was arrested and charged with assault. The stolen dress was confiscated. Mom flipped out and threw a vase at us during the arrest, earning a spot next to her daughter in the back seat of my police car. Finally, I filed a warrant on the father. All he wanted was to get back into his daughter's life. Instead, he bought her a criminal record and ruined her prom. Way to go dad
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