Whammo the psudo-cop accosts a mail theif.

There I was driving down my street coming home from a hard day. It was dark, very dark. As I am approaching my house I see two people walking down the sidewalk. Mailbox’s on this street sit out on posts by the sidewalk. I see the two figures rummage through my mailbox and come out with a handfull of mail. The mailbox sits on the east side of the yard and my driveway is on the west. The felons were walking towards my driveway. I gunned my engine and came screetching to a halt diagonally across the driveway right in front of them cutting off their getaway. I jumped out of my car confrontationaly and agressivly, ready for a fight. I accuse them of stealing my mail and then notice how frightened they looked. The middleage woman and her teenage daughter. “No, No!” the woman said with a bit of fear, “We’re just passing out flyers!” I looked at her hand and instead of my mail it held a stack full of Dominoes coupons.

Have you ever REALLY felt like an ass? I mean a total jackass? Have you ever just REALLY wanted to crawl in a hole?

Well… I appologized profusely and groveled for their forgiveness but they still looked at me like I might jump at them at any moment.

After they left I retrieved my mail… including dominoes coupon.

That is too funny, Whammo.

Well, it is a violation of Federal law to put anything but US mail in a mailbox, so you could probably think of yourself as Whammo, Junior G-Man.

I swear, I read MALL theif.

Anyway, I too can recall a couple of instances of extreme jumping-the-gun on my part. Makes you want to just go home and crawl under your bed.

In your defense, though, people steal mail everywhere. I probably would have reacted the same way as you did. Hell, I even had my garbage stolen once (which is why everyone should have a shredder…)

Or a cat. Anyone who steals my garbage is going to have to dig out the credit card receipts from under a pile of kitty litter. Crime may pay, but does it pay that well?