Police Visit #2

So... my summer job has been interesting to say the very least. This visit with the Police wasn't nearly as exciting as the one in L.A. (see Police Visit #1) and Officer Avila not nearly as sexy as Sting. ;) Friday morning, during the first week of summer school here at Cordova High, the principal and I arrived to find a stolen SUV crashed in the outdoor amphitheater. How did it get there you might ask? Apparently, the handy drivers stole the car from a nearby neighborhood and proceeded to drive it all over our campus, tearing up lawn and shrubbery where'er they went. (Cordova has a wide-open campus, which, I soon found out, is an administrator's worst nightmare.) We don't suspect the culprits to be Cordova students, because they would have known where the amphitheater was and, most likely, stopped the car before it went sailing into the air. The tire marks started at the top of the amphitheater, showed up again about 5 steps down and then ... there were none. So... it is apparent that these unsuspecting drivers "Thelma & Louised-it" off the top, got some great air, hit once on the way down, and then smashed into the cement stage at the bottom! Nice! Both airbags were deployed and the keys were left in the vehicle. When the police arrived, they took fingerprints to try and find the punks who deprived a poor, unsuspecting family of their transportation. My thought: How did these crazies actually walk away from such an airborne event without broken legs, or a massive concussion, at the very least? Hmmm...


Now, if you thought that was crazy, fast-forward with me to week two. Wednesday morning, I was instructed to go buy a tall coffee for our janitor who had been trying to sweep up broken glass outside our student store. Here is a picture of what we found on this particular morning. Now, you might posit that, under normal circumstances, one would not need to use a backhoe to open a building. However, that concept would only apply to normally functioning human beings. This fine piece of machinery was left out in front of the elementary school across the street. I don't suppose it could be our same SUV bandits who hot-wired this one, drove it down a residential street, through campus, down the 10 cafeteria steps and up to the windows of the student store? Perhaps. As you can see they used the bucket to "open" the window to try and rip off whatever they could find -- and that wasn't much. My thought: Do you suppose they were mad when they didn't find much to steal? After all, that's a lot of heavy machinery operation for little to no loot. The question then remains: if they got hurt during the process, might they try going after workman's comp? :)

Most excellent! I can tell that being a public school administrator will never be boring.