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March 21st, 2005
Timing Is Everything!!!
Would you believe my son, Larry, and I were on our way shopping at Wal-Mart in my car when we pulled up on our corner at the end of the street behind a white truck. His truck had been stolen some weeks before and I bet there are at least 10,000 white pickups in Yuma. Arizona. .
Larry suddenly screamed,“My God!!! That's my truck." He recognized the rear view window.
We followed it up to a corner of a major thoroughfare and pulled along side of it. Larry shouted to the driver "You've got my truck " She looked momentarily stunned, then took off roaring down the highway with Larry in hot pursuit.
It was quite a car chase, most unnerving for an 85 year old woman - me. I managed to yell at a woman using her cell phone, "Call the police we are following a stolen vehicle."
In and out of a couple of subdivisions, he kept yelling, “She’s gonna bail.”
She turned a corner with us still in hot pursuit and when we rounded it there was the truck on a private lawn a few inches from the house. It had hit a tree and flattened the left, front tire. We pulled up to the curb and Larry got out to look at the truck. The driver and passenger had fled but a recently filled drug prescription package was left on the seat.
Within minutes, the first police car arrived on the scene, then 3 or 4 more came along. Apparently, several people had called the police. Neighbors were all over the place, some on cell phones
One cop asked for a description of the driver. Only saw her for a second but recalled she was a 20-30s Anglo with brown hair pulled back in a pony tail wearing clear glasses with circular lens framing a moon-shaped face. She kinda looked like an owl wearing a black T shirt.
I never did see the passenger only that she had dark hair.
The cops found both the driver and passenger a few blocks away trying to scale backyard walls. The driver, whose named matched the label on the drug prescription, apparently sang like a canary and told them everything they wanted to know. Don’t believe she was the original truck thief! Think she is being charged with a hit and run accident as she ran into the tree and almost hit the house. She was also charged as being in possession of a stolen vehicle.
Still don't know who took the truck from the Cocopah Indian casino parking lot some 15 miles from my home, but it was stolen 3 weeks ago tonight. More excitement than I have gone through in several years. That truck has some stories to tell. My daughter, Pat, referred to it as "Boomerang"!
I really don't believe the police ever would have found it and if the driver had gotten away, as the license plate had been partially blocked with a piece of paper. She and whoever stole the truck in the first place would have made sure that it disappeared for good. The radio was gone and probably was sold. Otherwise it is in okay condition. .
The tire has already been replaced and the car insurance will be reinstated tomorrow, and Boomerang is back in the carport. Happy ending to a crazy tale with timing that never could be duplicated.
Like Larry just said, “Thanks mom for asking me to take you to Wal-Mart. You know if we would left the house seconds earlier, she would have been behind us at the corner and seconds later, we would have never seen the truck.”
YES, Timing Is Everything!!!!
Flame away, malcontents about reckless driving.
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