I once ran after some Teenage Would be burglers - it was by chance that my hubbys crowbar was in the laundery... I ran after them screaming like a banshee with it, that I was going to whoop their Arses for being such lowlives and that their parents were going to have a surprise when I dumped their sorry arses on their doorsteps! They ran like the clappers into the dark, I was so mad. I kept my kids away from the door they had touched but the cops weren't interested (and we wonder why crime escalates!) and said they could arrest me for brandishing a weapon in the street... needless to say its a good job they got away but I was mad that the cops had their priorities wrong. 3 mths later they broke into the lady across the street... when the cops came asking if I saw anything, I told the cops that maybe they should have acted last time and to stop wasting my time - I found out they had turned into quite a little crime spree ring of 15yr olds. I often think if I had caught them maybe they would have had a consequence that may have stopped them thinking larceny was an easy pastime.
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