Getaway Driver
When police in Northampton, Mass., investigated a 3:45 a.m. convenience store burglary (their target: Pabst Blue Ribbon beer), officers found the two suspects had a strange accomplice waiting in their pickup truck. “The rooster was just there,” said a still-somewhat-incredulous Capt. John Cartledge. When officers surrounded the truck with the suspects inside, they found the rooster, and the beer. Gunner Anderson-Keener, 18, and a juvenile were arrested. It was unclear which of them owned the animal. The cock was put into the roll-call room at police headquarters, where “It was just doing the normal ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’,” Cartledge said. Despite questioning, the suspects never said why they had the rooster with them. (RC/Springfield Republican) ...Well duh: it was 3:45 a.m. It was their alarm clock.Original Publication Date: 01 January 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
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