Maggie = Good Pet/Bad Guard Dog

A heinous crime was committed this morning!!!!  I can barely bring myself to talk about it.  I shall describe the events leading up to the incident as best I can.

 

In chronological order:

1. Woke up this morning as usual, T turned off the air conditioner on his way downstairs and I turned off the two fans on my way down. (White noise anyone?)
2. T turned on the morning news while I took Maggie out back.
3. On our way up front for our morning sniff of the street I noticed Maggie walking through something on the driveway.
4. I stopped and looked at it and finally made that squinched up "huh?" face.
5. This is when my gaze drifted slowly up the front passenger side door of my car and thought...
6. "Oh, that is what is on the ground, it is my shattered window."
7. I looked in the window below the hanging part that only remained in place due to the window tinting at the top which held all the broken glass together.
8. I saw a large gray object on the seat. 
9. I could not figure out what it was.
10. It looked like an inside-out piece of leather, with the gray felt backing they put on it sometimes.
11. I reached in and touched it with one finger.
12. A rock...the size of two soft balls if they were stuck together side by side.
13. "My iPod!!!!!" my brain screamed. (Heads up Beth)
14. It was gone.
15. I had left it in the charger overnight. (Dumb, Dumb, Dumb!) (Pardon me a moment while I kick my own ass.)
16. I went into the house and called to T that he should go get the camera from work.
17. He had taken it in to share his pictures from NASCAR.
18. Then I wondered about my cell phone.  I had left that in the car last night too. 
19. I could end up like Paris Hilton with my personal phone contacts posted online for all the world to see.
20. I went back outside to check.
21. The car doors were still all locked.
22. The alarm was still set. 
23. Read that again.
24. The alarm was still set.
25. The lights on the front of the garage which were on last night (for security) were not on this morning.
26. The light switch was still turned on.
27. We did not touch anything knowing we would have to call the police.
28. I did find my phone still in the car.
29. They took the earphones for the iPod and the case I used to clip it to my waist at the gym last night.
30. Damn!
31. T went to get the camera.
32. We took lots of pictures.
33. The cop showed up, looked at the damage, made out a report.
34. They will not fingerprint the outside of the car since anyone at anytime could touch it (on the street, in parking lots, etc.)
35. She took the serial number of the iPod so if someone were to try to sell it to a pawn shop we might get it back...odds = slim to none.
36. T checked the light bulbs and they had been unscrewed to the point where they did not make contact anymore.
37. We swept the glass off of the driver's seat and then headed to the quarter car wash to vacuum the rest of the glass out of the interior.
38. It took a lot of quarters and we still did not get it all. 
39. Glass is everywhere!!!!  Did I mention...EVERYWHERE!
40. While at the car wash T was vacuuming and I was moving things out of the way that I did not want vacuumed up, like my cell phone, gas receipts and the VIP parking pass from the Bon Jovi concert I went to in 1998.
41. T noticed two HUGE very DISTINCT hand prints on the car...outside, where the police would not take prints.  We are talking full hand prints, I could read the guy's fortune if I was so inclined.
42. That was when things got ugly.
43. I noticed a guy drive in and pull up next to the dumpster out behind the car wash.  He got out and started dumping BOX after BOX of BOOKS into the dumpster!!!!!!!!!!!
44. He was THROWING AWAY what looked like HUNDREDS of books.
45. Can you believe it?
46. I know, I can't either. It was awful.
47. Besides, it wasn't even his dumpster!
48. But, THE BOOKS!!!!!
49. People, you NEVER throw away a book!
50. I can't believe what this world is coming to.