I was sitting down earlier, finishing off The Life of Pi in the heat of my living room, when I heard an argument through my open back window.
\nI listened a little, and it sounded like someone was going to do some serious injury to someone else. There were at least two pleading voices saying that they’d been doing nothing. As I peered out to see if I could see anything, it became obvious that they were denying trying to steal a car.
\nThe thought that flashed through my head was that the owner had chased after them and caught them. But I was hearing two voices and I still couldn’t see where the sounds were coming from, but it sounded to me like it was right below my window.
\nThen I saw two police escorting the lads away from an alley that runs to a neighbour’s back garden. The young lads were handcuffed to the two policemen, who were now walking around to the street front.
\nNaturally I moved to a front window, and saw them being escorted to a waiting police van on the road that’s at the other end of the alley opposite my front door.
\nI can surmise that someone in that street saw them doing some mischief to a car – possibly trying to break in – and that the police arrived promptly and chased the youths into the dead-end alley in which they were eventually apprehended.
\nGood work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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