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08.02.05
The Sign Of The Shoes

I was talking to DAX today, when I said, �I gotta call you back man, there�s a uniformed policeman cop walking through my front yard.�

I open the door just as he was about to ring the bell. Stretch is all over him.

Me: �STRETCH!!!�

Cop: �You must have seen me comming...I can see why you call him Stretch.�

Me: �What?�hold on�let me snag him.�

I�m now holding my dog, and he is GROWLING like a MOFO. He is small, but fearless.

Cop: �Have you seen the shoes?�

Me: �What shoes?� I�m thinking, �This is too weird.�

Cop pointing toward the sky: �Those shoes�

Me: �What shoes?�

Cop: �Those shoes�

Me: �Oh, those shoes�the one�s hanging from the wire?�

shoes.jpg


Cop: �Yeah, those shoes�

Me: �For the last five years, there have always been shoes hanging from the power lines. I think it�s a high school thing.�

Cop: �Those are new shoes�

Me: �Really?�

The Cop and I move in for a closer look:

Cop: �See�

Me: �Yeap, looks like a couple of pairs of NIKE�

Cop: �Yeap, how long have they been there?�

Me: �I have no idea�I hadn�t noticed them�

Cop: �Do you know what that means?�

Me: �Know what �what� means?�

Cop: �Shoes hanging on the power line across from your house.�

Me: �I have no idea�

Cop: �That is the sign of a drug dealer�

Me: �What?�

Cop: �Yeap�the gangs do it to make it easier to score�

Me: �Really?�

Cop: giving me the evil eye�saying nothing.

Me: �Do I look like a drug dealer to you?�

Cop: still giving me the evil eye�saying nothing.

Me: �Are there gangs here?�

Cop: �Yes�

Me: �So, what do you want me to do?�

Cop: �Report anything suspicious�

I live in a town with 42k people. I�m on a first name basis with the people who sack my groceries, for goodness sake. I drive slow, and wave to everyone�they wave back. This is fucking Mayberry.

Anyway, the Cop walks up the road to where someone is building a house, and talks to the workers. As he is returning to his car, and as I�m taking pictures of the shoes, he said:

�I�ve got to get out of this heat�

I shit you not�I could not make this up.

Posted: 23:22
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Weird as hell. I'd be suspicious of that cop...but that's just me.

Posted by: Dana at August 3, 2005 01:49 PM
 
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