They Walk Among Us

Patricia Bradley Mystery Question 53 Comments

I don’t know about you, but we went straight from winter to summer. It’s been hovering above 90 degrees here the past couple of weeks. Now, I want you to know I.AM.NOT.COMPLAINING! Just making an observation. lol.

I’m off to Natchez to do more research this week, so I may be sporadic in answering comments, but be sure to leave one–my books arrived and I’m giving away a copy to one commenter who leaves a comment between now and Thursday, May 31, 2018, at 7 p.m.

Now on to last week’s Mystery Question: Three of these scenarios are true. I made up one…which dumb criminal is mine?
  1. When police asked to search John Doe’s apartment for drugs, he was not a suspect—in fact, they were looking for someone else. That all changed when they got a look at how his name was listed on his cell phone: “John Doe, Drug Dealer.”
  2. As two men waited in line at the coffee shop to pay their bill, a third cut in front of them. He threw a drink at the clerk and demanded all the money from the till. Temporarily surprised, the men quickly recovered and handcuffed the crook. Apparently in his rush the criminal didn’t notice they were police officers—in full uniform.
  3. A  bank robber sent mocking emails to local police, ridiculing their efforts to arrest him. First, he let them know they had his age, build, and accent wrong. Then he corrected their announcement that he’d escaped on foot; no, he had a getaway car! The cops got the last word in, though, when they arrested the guy a few hours later. They used his email to trace him.
  4. John Doe robbed the convenience store, but when he ran out the door, a patrol car pulled into the parking lot. Thinking he was caught, he wheeled around and ran into a nearby building that just happened to be a gym where police officers worked out.

And the answer is…#4. Quite a few of you guess correctly, so Congrats! But can you believe the others are actually true???

Now onto this week’s Mystery Question which will leave you scratching your head. What follows are some of the practices of our lawmakers. Three of these are actually true–only one is made up, sorry to say. Which one did I make up?
  1. In a place that shall remain nameless, potholes had reached epic proportions. Residents even spray-painted rants and even explicit pictures near the worst cases to get the city’s attention. It worked; the city sent out work teams. They removed the graffiti—but left the potholes.
  2. In another nameless city, lawmakers banned any type of farm animal. One hapless man owned a goat that he had tied to his front porch. He was cited and required to remove the goat. He did. He moved it to his back porch which was not in the city limits. It seems the district line went through the middle of his house and there was nothing the city officials could do about it.
  3.  One government agency spent $150,000 to 
investigate why we’re so stressed out by politics. The public would have gladly told them for free.
  4. Another government agency conducted a $230,000 study that showed that the color red made 
female monkeys amorous.

Okay, Super Sleuths which of these did I make up? Leave your comments, and I’ll pick someone Thursday night to receive a copy of Justice Betrayed. I’ll announce it on the Reader Friday blog.

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  1. Suzanne Sellner

    I vote for #3 because I don’t think they care that politics stresses us. It keeps them “in business”.

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  2. Paula Shreckhise

    I think #3 because that’s too small an amount for the government to spend. They would find a way to pad it!

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      Patricia Bradley

      I like the way you think, Paula. lol. When we worked under a grant, we had to spend all the money–we couldn’t just give it back if we didn’t need it. Which never made sense to me.

  3. Perrianne Askew

    I vote for #3 because all I don’t think the government cares that all of the ploitical nonsesnse that goes on stresses us out.

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      Patricia Bradley

      Thanks, Jackie…but I didn’t get to go to Natchez because of Alberto…although it didn’t actually there. But when I checked the weather on the last day I could change my reservation without being charged for a day, the weather forecast indicated thunderstorms both days I planned to be there. Of course the next day, Alberto decided to go up Alabama instead of Mississippi. lol

      1. Diane Nickerson

        And Mobile got almost none of the rain and storms they had forecasted for us over the weekend!! I think this is going to be an interesting hurricane season!

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        Patricia Bradley

        I’m afraid it is, Diane! My daughters got in excess of 20 inches of rain in South Florida before this tropical depression formed. But thankfully they were spared Alberto’s wrath. 🙂

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  4. Betti

    #3 I really don’t think the government cares if politics stresses us out. However, I really like #1 as well – it is so very crazy it just might be true….lol

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  5. Rhonda

    Hey Pat!! I could fill in the blank about the nameless place with potholes!!! You must have been listening to K-Love recently. They did a segment where people were calling in from all over discussing their cities potholes and how people chose to draw attention to them.

    As to your question, I am going with number 2 since nobody else has done so AND because I can think of a lot of legal reasons, cities/municipalities wouldn’t take its boundaries through a structure, etc. Also, I am NEVER surprised at what the government will spend time and resources on ‘to study’. LOL!!

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  6. Edward Arrington

    Well, Pat, if I don’t pick #1 again, that will probably be it. However, I am going to change horses. I think #2 is the made-up one. Although I know people whose property crosses a county or city boundary, I can’t imagine building across a boundary. That sounds like double trouble, having to deal with building inspectors, regulations, etc. from two different jurisdictions. What a nightmare!

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  7. Trixi

    Oh HAHAHA…thanks for the laughs Patricia! All these are funny stuff and I can’t believe three of them are for real 😉 But for this week, I’m going with #2 the goat story (even though I CAN imagine it happening).

    By the way, what a beautiful book baby….so excited for you!!! I have the first two and really want this one for my collection…thanks so much for the chance! Happy researching 🙂

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  8. Diane Nickerson

    I just had a chance to read Justice Delayed and Justice Buried…really looking forward to Justice Betrayed!!

    I truly wish you had made up all of these! I am going to guess #2 is the one you made up simply because it seems the least plausible answer to have actually happened.

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  9. Meagan

    They are all eye roll worthy because I can see any of them being true but I’m hoping it is number #4 just because who cares how red makes female monkeys feel – unless the study was to prove government officials should not wear red when they enter a jungle but really no one should wear red in a jungle unless they really want to stand out amongst the foliage. 😉

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