It doesn't happen all the time, but some weekends you might find yourself asking - "what the heck...?". Last weekend was one of those.
The whole family visited Claire and Leon's for James' blessing. We all stayed over. Mike and I were in our old attic room. At 6am on Sunday morning we were woken up by two loud BANGs, which Mike thought were gun shots. Being Mike he pulled on his clothes, just as Claire came running to the bottom of the stairs screaming "Michelle - your car's on fire!!"
We got outside to find it wasn't our car, it was my sister Alices- check it out!
A psycho from the village had borken in and then torched the sucka. We started taking pictures but the car started rumbling so we went inside to await the firebrigade.
Luckily the engine didn't go, because it was really close to the house! Seems like the bangs we heard were the backs tires exploding!
The girls checked it out - what was missing? What had been burned?
They found this one remaining monopoly card - "Pay your insurance premium!". You got that one right!
The police caught the guy later that morning whilst we were at church. He'd punched out a taxi driver and done a few other naughty things around the village. They suspected it might be this particular dude, and went knocking on him. They found him lounging around drunk in his living room in the clothes that he had been described in. Genius.
Poor Alice. She had a pretty good laugh about it!So what did you all do with your Bank Holiday weekend?
6 comments:
i feel horrible for your sisters' loss of her car... but i'd have to admit, quite funny. needless to say, that storey will probably be told for generations to come!!!! ;)
i have to say, i felt a little bad laughing at the story...UNTIL i read my sister's comment. NOW i can roll on the floor and laugh without guilt. :) no really though. that's terrible. i hope alice is doing alright! what a weekend experience!!! gotta love how Michael tried to hurry and save the day. what a good guy! thanks for sharing your weekend adventure with us. ours came nothing close. as always, your nieces and nephew kept me plenty busy. :) love you guys. xoxo
You know Alice was really very funny about the whole thing which made it all fine. When the police came and interviewed her, they asked her if she wanted to be sent updates on the progress of the investigation. Her response was: "I'm not really bovered. It's happened now, might as well laugh about it." So there you go. We all had a good laugh and enjoyed telling and retelling the story!
Bless Alice - I love her attitude! I can't believe the poor state of the car though! I think my favourite thing was the monopoly card! xx
Oh no! At least she had a great attitude about it! Our weekend was nowhere near as interesting!
That is insane! Things like that don't happen! Alice is so good about it all!
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