Cool (true) story from last night’s gospel meeting:
Recently a man reported his car as stolen.
Nothing wildly unusual about that and usually police would do little with it apart from register the details and other formalities.
Nevertheless, on this occasion, police mounted an acute and widespread search for the vehicle and its thief, alerting other stations, posting details, deploying officers to join the search from several different forces. Of course, the car thief did everything possible to avoid detection!
Why such unusual effort to find this stolen car and its robber? The car was not unusual – just an ordinary VW; the car contained nothing of any great value and it didn’t belong to anyone famous or unusually influential – just an ordinary man.
However, this ordinary man had left something in the car: a packet of biscuits. The biscuits were laced with poison, specially prepared by the man to kill some rats that had infested his house.
He was very concerned that the thief may eat the biscuits and die. The police shared his concern – and that was why such an unusual search was mounted. Unknown to the guilty party who was trying so hard to avoid detection, his pursuers were actually trying to save him.
Sound familiar?
(Thanks to ‘Killer’...)
1 comment:
Do you know if they found him or not? Killer didn't didn't tell us the conclusion and I wonder if you have found out?
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