Sadly, I don't have any pictures of Pete at 30... we were a bit distracted by our car this year.
The story: we had a great dinner with Pete's parents, and afterward we headed over to the game store so Pete could pick out a gift.
That sounds like he had just turned 6 years old, but Pete was happy! :-)
Anyway, on the way back, I noticed some flashing lights near our car and sure enough! Security was at our car! Some loser decided to punch out our window and tried to snatch my work laptop, but something must have scared him off before he could get a good grip on it.
He did succeed in making quite of a mess of our car, though!
A cop came to take a report and within a couple of minutes we heard a call over his radio about another break-in just down the street.
The guy was still around breaking into cars!
Another cop came by to check things out and our cop told them to take off to see if they could catch him. It was like the beginning of a COPS episode!
But our COPS episode pretty much ended there. We don't really know what happened after that. At first we thought that we heard over the radio that they caught the guy, but... they didn't. We heard wrong.
Oh, well.
The guy was still around breaking into cars!
Another cop came by to check things out and our cop told them to take off to see if they could catch him. It was like the beginning of a COPS episode!
But our COPS episode pretty much ended there. We don't really know what happened after that. At first we thought that we heard over the radio that they caught the guy, but... they didn't. We heard wrong.
Oh, well.
But our cop dusted my laptop for prints and that was pretty cool to watch.
Through the whole thing we felt pretty taken-care-of. The cop even helped clean out my laptop bag full of broken glass. And the mall security called someone over and he brushed most of the glass out of the car and helped Pete get rid of the rest of broken window so we could get home.
We made it home within an hour and before 10p that night we had gotten an appointment to get our car fixed the next day.
At 11a that next day, a repair man showed up at our house and replaced our window right there in our garage. That was very cool. It was so convenient and non-stressful.
All in all, things could have gone a lot worse than they did and we are VERY grateful for that!
Hopefully we can have give Pete a better birthday next year... we'll keep our fingers crossed.
