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Last night, while Jeff was coming to the mall to pick me up from work at about 10 pm. Five (3 uniformed, 2 undercover) police officers pulled him over, ordered him out of the car at gunpoint, Made him lie on the ground, handcuffed him and accused him of driving a car that was reported stolen. The funny part. It WAS reported stolen...BY US.

Two or three weeks ago, Our car was stolen from our apartment complexes parking lot ,stripped of parts and towed illegally to a towing agency, where we recovered it. The only problem is that Jeff reported the car stolen AND returned under an old license plate number, which we have since changed. The HPD, who incidentally didnt show much interest in the case when we reported it, didnt know that Jeff had recovered the car, and thus the misunderstanding.

Because it was late, and dark and we live in a dangerous neighbor hood...and also because he was handcuffed, Jeff asked a police officer to pick me up from outside the front doors of my workplace, which he thankfully did because at that point I was in near panick having not heard what was going on But realizing that Jeff was very late. When I found out why, I laughed my a** off. The cop, who was very nice and very helpfull in explaining what had gone on, took me to the police station where Jeff picked me up shortly after, minus the police escort that had taken him down.

Jeff was a bit shaken by the whole experiece having, in his words, "Never seen so many guns in my life." For a while all he could reflect on was the fact that if he had made one wrong move, he may well have ended up shot. not once, but several times.

Alls well that ends well I suppose.
The police did a good job in bringing him down.
I just wish they had done that very same thing to the person who had actually stolen the vehicle.
But I guess one can only ask for so much.