This week’s Mystery Question came to me as I read a blotter report about odd getaway vehicles people used after committing a crime. It made me laugh and I decided to pass it on to you! But first, last week’s Mystery Question:
August Mystery Questions Week 4: More local blotter reports–can you believe the kinds of crime going on in this small area of North Mississippi? Anyway, three are true believe it or not, and one is not. Can you guess the made-up report?
- Police received a call from an elderly woman who said she heard noises in her kitchen. When police arrived, they found no evidence of anyone else being in the house. She asked them since they were there, would they open a jar of pickles for her.
- A man reported to police that his wife took his cane and he couldn’t walk without it. The wife said he’d misplaced his cane and there was no problem. When the deputies arrived, he’d found his cane.
- After purchasing gas, a man stuck his card into the receipt slot instead of the card slot and couldn’t remove it. When he asked for assistance, the clerk was rude. He tried to give the clerk his phone number, and the clerk refused, so he called 911. By the time deputies arrived, the man had left and the clerk had retrieved the card. The deputy returned the card.
- A woman reported her mother-in-law had taken her keys and wouldn’t give them back. When deputies arrived, the m-i-l returned the keys, but a check revealed a pair of warrants. She was taken to the county jail and booked.
And the answer is…#1. I could not believe the other blotter reports actually happened within 50 miles of my house. Congrats on everyone who guessed correctly!
Now for Mystery Questions ~ Hilarious Getaways. Three of the stories are true, one is made-up. Can you guess which one is not true?
- A man decided he was too drunk to drive home from Walmart and was afraid of getting a DUI. He decided he would drive one of their motorized shopping carts home. Police found the cart parked in front of a bar half a mile away and arrested him.
- After a man robbed a bank, he left in his wheelchair and was last seen motoring down a nearby street, his legs wrapped in bandages, and his right leg sticking straight out while he zoomed away. He is still at-large.
- A woman was cashing a check in a bank when armed robbers stormed in. She was so frightened she ran out of the bank and jumped into a running car…yep, she’d taken the robbers stolen get-away car.
- After a man loaded three bottles of whiskey in a motorized cart, he opened one and imbibed as he drove around the store. That gave him the courage to escape out the front door. Police found him two blocks from the store after the battery on the cart died. The man was passed out under a tree.
Okay, Super Sleuths, which one of these Mystery Questions ~ Hilarious Getaways stories did I make up? Leave your answers in the comments and I’ll enter you in a September drawing for a book from my library!
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Comments 42
Number 2 feels off. Good job on these!
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Hi Monique! Good to ‘see’ you here. We’ll see next week if #2 is off…Blessings!
Oh hey, that’s me! Wow, thank you!
Okay, for this week, I’m picking number 4 because I HOPE it’s not true!
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Congrats, Priscilla! You should have an email from me by now. And we’ll see next week if it’s #4. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
I going with #4, simply because the robbers were armed. Most people would be afraid to run because of being shot in the back. Course it would also depend on how close you were to the robbers and how far from the door. Maybe I’m overthinking the question, lol.
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Love your logic, Phyllis! We’ll see if it works next week. Thanks for stopping by!
Wow, these are all crazy. I think the craziest is #3, so I’m picking that one.
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I’m glad you think all of them are crazy, Tim. You don’t know how hard I struggled to come up with one that matched the others! lol Thanks for stopping by and we’ll see next week if it’s #3.
I’m going with #1.
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We’ll see, Jeanna! Thanks for stopping by.
Oh, my stars, no wonder you laughed. I’ll go with #2. In a small central Minnesota town, a woman really did rob a bank and got away on a bicycle. Good thing no one nabbed her bike while she was inside. There’s more to the story, but so far, they’ve never caught her.
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Hi Delores! As far as I can tell, a crook is liable to most anything. lol So glad you stopped by!
I’m going with #3, as well! These are great – all of them sound like something from a comedy! Lol!
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Don’t they, Regina! lol. Thanks for stopping by. The answers are all over the place this week…except for #1…hmmm.
I’m guessing #2 since someone in a wheelchair would probably not expect to get away with robbing a bank even if it was motorized.
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One would think, wouldn’t you, Suzanne. lol. Thanks for stopping by and we’ll see next week if it’s #2.
Hard to decide but going with #4 this week.
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Hi Gloria! Good to see you here, and we’ll see next week if it’s #4.
3- thanks for the chance
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Hi Lynn! We’ll see next week if it’s #3! Good to ‘see’ you here!
#1
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We’ll see, Patricia. So far you’re the first to choose #1… Thanks for stopping by.
I’m guessing #2
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Hi Sally Jo! Good to ‘see’ you here. We’ll see next week if the correct wrong answer is #2. 😉
#2.
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Hi Caryl! We’ll see next week. Thanks for dropping by!
As usual I enjoyed the picture and scripture verse. I think #3 is made up. I’ve never been present at an armed robbery but I suppose it’s rather difficult to work in banking for over 40 years without at least one robbery occurring. One bank had at least four robberies during my 21 years there – one happened on the Friday before I started working for them on Monday. In another case, a branch was held up the very same day I drove into town to begin my new job. Practically every situation I ever heard of, the employees and customers were too scared to move while the robber(s) were in the building.
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Oh, my, Edward! I’m not sure I would’ve gone to work there if that’d happened just before I was supposed to start! lol. We’ll see if it’s #3 next week. Glad you enjoyed the scripture and photo.
I had worked at a bank data center for almost four and a half years before that first instance and can’t remember any of the banks we processed being robbed, although they probably were and I just never heard about it. That was in Lexington, KY. We were moving back home to Virginia and I had accepted the job. We were less than three hours from our new home when I heard about a branch office being held up that morning and my job started Monday. It was the only job available in bank operations and technology in our hometown and this was our home. There was no turning back and nowhere else to go. The other situation was a contract job and I had reported to the human resources office to handle some paperwork and get a brief orientation. I learned about the robbery when I was told to wait until the H.R. Officer returned from a branch that had been robbed earlier that day. I had been looking for work for two months, so I needed the job. I was only there six months. The same branch got held up a second time before my contract ended. The great thing about my work was that I spent very little time in the lobby where the robbers came calling. I never felt at risk.
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Edward, that is amazing! But I can understand why you took the job anyway. Besides, lightning doesn’t usually strike twice in the same place. lol
Loved the blotter stories–though the “jar of pickles” sounded logical to me! I’m going to guess #3 for the getaway stories because it was the one that made me laugh!
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Hey, Johnnie! Great to ‘see’ you here. I thought the pickle story sounded logical, too. lol We’ll see next week if it’s #3.
I want to say #4 this week because first of all, those motorized carts don’t move that fast so I’m sure the police would have caught up with him very quickly, and number two the store clerks would have seen him drinking what he didn’t pay for and possibly detain him until police came. I don’t see how he would have gotten away with that, there would have been too many witnesses seeing him and he certainly wouldn’t have made a quick escape…lol! BUT, I have been wrong in the past about my logic 🙂
I forgot to send you some of the blotter reports from our newspaper last week…they were pretty funny! I’ll have to see if I can find them again, you’d get a good laugh out of them I’m sure.
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Trixi, please send your blotter reports! Might even use some of them here. 🙂 Love your logic, but…we’ll see next week if it works. lol Thanks for stopping by!
I guess I’m going to go with #1.
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Diana, we’ll see next week if it’s #1…meanwhile all four answers have votes! Thanks for stopping by!
These are all hilarious but I think #2 is false. It just sounds a bit too far fetched.
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Thanks, Megan! So glad they made you laugh! We’ll see next week if it’s #2. Thanks for stopping by!
I think #3 is the made up one.
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We’ll see, Alicia! These have been fun. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
#2?
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Hi MS Barb! Good to ‘see’ you! And we’ll see next week if it’s #2. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.