Pace on Earth

Sabotage

October 2005 - Thankgiving weekend.

The roommates and I were at a party. Jess and Normy came home at midnight and went to bed. I didn't have my keys so they left the door unlocked. I came home later; somewhere around 5. When I got to the door I found it locked. I called the house phone and Normy's cell but got no response. I got a chair out of the garage and crawled in the kitchen window but not before I notice a large pile of huge white mushrooms on a cooler beside the backdoor. I didn't really pay it too much mind and went to bed.

In the morning Normy woke me up to ask if I had taken the laptop to bed with me. I hadn't and then asked him why he locked me out after I asked him to leave the door open. He told me that he was positive that he left it unlocked. We exchanged quizzical looks and headed back downstairs to do some investigation. We did a quick inventory and noted that there were a few other items missing; a pair of Jesse's shoes, my keys, and a half-empty bottle of wine. During our search we found a handwritten note on our coffee table. It was a confession/thank you note. There were three pages of a stereo user's manuel filled with indecipherable scribblings. On one page, one sentence could be made out: "Thanks for the wine and hospitality" and further down the page, another one that read "My computer is broken so I am borrowing yours, I will return it on the 11th." At the bottom of that page the note was signed "Mark MacGregor". Normy called the cops and when he described what, besides the computer, had been stolen, they immediately knew who we were talking about. They had picked someone up with a big pair of shoes under his arm earlier that morning. They told us we probably wouldn't see the computer because he just got off the plane from Scotland and didn't really know where he was and therefore didn't know where the computer went. He was not so much a thief as he was a drunk. Those drunken Scots!

So that was the story. Jesse got his shoes back but the wine and the computer were likely gone for good. The cops called a week later to tell us that, in fact, the guy was not from Scotland, he was from Boisetown. Never did catch his name. I think it may have been an inside job....we should have realized something was up when they sent cops to Crime Scene Investigate our house and these were the guys that showed up:

Much of the story remains a mystery; most notably what was up with those mushrooms.
Ay MacGregor!!!!!!!!

PS - Because Normy refused to convince Jesse and I to write victim impact statements the guy went to court but was released due to lack of evidence. I didn't do it because I'm lazy but Jesse didn't do it because he secretly wants more mushrooms.

Police Department Pacey

posted by Vitamin S @ 3:38 p.m.