Car Back, Shoes Gone!

It's been so long since I posted on this blog! Facebook has taken over most of my computer time. I probably don't even have visitors anymore, but here's what we did on our snowy Saturday night!

Most of you know, last Tuesday, my car was stolen from my work parking lot. Well, last night about 11:30 we got the call that it was found. They even got the guy who possibly stole it by tracing his snow footprints up to a house. Here's how the story goes:

It was interesting, there was a nearby armed robbery at a seafood store, and when the officer was investigating the crime by driving around the neighborhood looking for suspects, he asked a few guys on the street if they saw anyone running or looking suspicious in the past half hour or so. Well, while the officer was talking to these couple of guys who didn't see anything, he noticed that nearby there was a running car with no one in it. After looking in the window he found that the ignition was punched out on it, so he ran the plates, and WALLAH, it was a stolen car, MY CAR! So, since it was snowing, there were footprints from the drivers side of the car up to this house on the same side of the street. The officers approached the people in the house and ended up taking four into custody for theft and possible armed robbery.
We of course, went to the scene to avoid my car being impounded(which I heard was very expensive) by the police. Just as we were getting ready to leave, the thing ran out of gas, so here we are in the middle of a crime ridden neighborhood, (with the cop still there, thankfully) running to the gas station,(accross from where the armed robbery was) buying a gas can, filling it up with gas and then taking it back to the car....Only to then have the thing not start again because after several attempts to start it with the screwdriver the battery died(maybe there is something more serious wrong)... Now what?

The cop gave us a number of a tow truck person and he had to go, we told him that we were okay, so he left. Now we're sitting in the truck, behind my car, without the cop, waiting for the tow truck. This made me nervous, but of course Rob was calm and collected, aside from the fact that he was tired, wet, cold and disgusted.

Well, within 5 minutes or so, the tow truck pulled up. One hundred dollars later, we have my car back, looks physically undamaged from the outside, but has interior damage. My smiley face from my rear view mirror is gone :( my nike plus running shoes an iPod sensor are gone, some miscellaneous papers are gone, but it's back and my road(spin class) shoes are back too.

We'll just have to figure out on Monday what the next step will be. At least I have my little red rental to cover me until my car is back to normal.