Straight From COPS

The craziest thing happened to me yesterday. We were at work campa nd we knocked on the door looking for "Grant Jackson", the person's house we were supposed to paint. He answers the door. "Are you Grant Jackson?" Brock, our group leader asks. "Yes" "Okay, we're here to paint your house." What?" He didn't know we were coming! He let us do it anyway and was even out there scraping wiht us. So, it starts raining. We have to get in the van(insurance issues or whatever) and he's still outside scraping. Soon, he joins us, chilling in our van. When it stops raining, we go back outside to scrape. He leaves to do some 'errands'. By and by we notice this strange odor of garlic tacos...So we're sitting there, scraoping, you know, just chilling, and we hear sirens wailing coming closer and closer and a car comes into view being chased by two police cars with sirens and lights blasting! I should now mention we aren't in the best neighborhood. The car screeches to a halt in front of the house we are scraping and "Grant" jumps out of his car! Our jaws drop as the policemen follow suit, except they pull out their guns and yell(and I mean YELL) "GET ON THE GROUND AND PUT YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM! YOU'RE GOING TO JAIL BECAUSE YOU'RE AN IDIOT!!!" Some 6th grade girls in our group start crying and we're all pretty much freaked out but still like "This is freaking awesome!" So "Grant" gets in the police car while the cops search his car. Brock calls Gary, the head of the work camp and also our youth minister and ask him what we should do. Gary told me later he was picturing like 30 cops with guns pointed and helicopters circling. So we left. Here's the theory we came up with riding in the van to another house to work on. Why did "Grant Jackson" so he calls himself not know we were coming. Maybe HE WASN"T THE REAL GRANT JACKSON!!! Just maybe, he had the real Grant in the basement stuffed with garlic tacos to cover up the smell of his METH LAB! HA! But, that's not what really happened. Oh no. So picture this, Grant is driving to get his inspection sticker replaced because it's expired. A friend had borrowed it and just gave it back. When he gets to the inspection place, he relizes he left his insurance card in his other car, at home. So he turns around and heads to his house. On the way there he changes lanes without using his blinker. The cops behind him flashes his lights to let him know that he saw and to be more careful next time. Grant freaks out(he thinks he's being pulled over) and speeds up a little. After all, he doesn't have his insurance car with him. The cop gets suspicious, radios for help and starts chasing Grant, sirens blaring. Grant still drives...straight to his house. By now, another cop is with this cop and you know the rest. He was pardoned and he apologized to the cops and the cops apologize to him and Grant apologizes to us. Ha. Crazy day in the life of Hannah. Random note...when I got home there were two vultures eating a snake in front of my house when I got home. Weird day.