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LICENSE PLATE NOT CHANGED TO CONDEMN THE GUILTY


Mary Grey and FaintlyMacabre were shopping at HEB for ingredients for their Valentine's meal for our parents, and I drove past the front of the store to pick them up. I went around once and they were not there, so I circled around the pack of the store and came around again through the side parking lot. So there I was, creeping carefully along between the rows of parked cars when a short white guy in a white shirt ran past, something black in his hand. "Oh, cool!" I thought. "Just like the movies, with a thief running away and... Oh My Gracious, HE'S STEALING HER PURSE!?!?!?!" My first reaction was to chase him, but he would have been long gone by the time I had stopped the car. Without consciously thinking, I switched to reverse, slammed on the gas and then the brakes, and saw him jump into a car that instantly screamed out of the parking lot. The license plate seared into my memory without my even knowingly memorizing it. I quickly parked my car and when I got out I heard a hysterical lady calling for police. She stood with three or four friends, all talking Spanish faster than a whirlybird. Thankfully they understood English, and I told them the license plate, and they called the police, and it was SO COOL!!!
*pant,pant,pant* *big grin*