You see, ANYONE can have a bad day:
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The hunt is on for a poop burglar.
Police in San Diego are searching for a gunman who swiped a bag of poop from a woman out walking her dog.
The woman told police that she was out walking her dog, Misty, on Monday night when a man in his 20s ran up behind her and grabbed the bag she was holding.
When the gunman discovered what was in it, he threw it down in disgust, pointed his gun at the 32-year-old woman and demanded money, San Diego police detective Gary Hassen said.
He then aimed his .22-caliber semiautomatic at Misty and pulled the trigger twice but the gun didn’t fire, Hassen said.
The robber ran to a waiting small, silver car and fled the scene, police said.
So someone upstairs was watching over Misty who had a gun aimed at her but turned the other cheek. As she had earlier.
This reminds me of a TRUE story going back to when I was a kid. A doctor visited our home. She told us that someone broke into her car and stole a box full of filled liquor bottles. They were filled with urine samples. “Boy, I bet they were surprised,” she said.
MORAL OF THESE STORIES: The rewards of crime may be a waste.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.