New Blog Experiment

I decided to try a new blog experiment. No comments on my irregular blogging on normal blogs.

The idea is that I am always making bone head conclusions and/or freaking out over trivial things. So, I am taking real world events and melodramatizing them . . . overly. The blog can be found here (feed). If you follow me through SuprGlu (feed), you'll get it automatically. Let me know what you think . . .

It was a dark and stormy night . . .

Well, really it was a bright, sunny Sunday afternoon. I had just woken up from my nap and stepped out front. I was greeted by a firetruck and several police cars. Needless to say, my interest was piqued and I stepped further out to get a better look. Two houses up, a small fire had broken out in a small trash can where the garage and house meet. I met some of the neighborhood kids in the street and they told me that it sounded like the neighbor had put a cigarette but in a small trash can and it caught fire.

All in all, this was great Sunday afternoon entertainment but my heart went out to the family living there. They were new to the area and were not at home. Talk about a surprise after going out to run errands or whatever!

The rest of the neighbors congregated for some good old fashioned schadenfreude and beers were shared all around. The police went into the house to make sure everything was safe, and that's when the fun began. The police officer walked back out of the house and started taping it off with the yellow caution tape: Not a normal reaction to a small house fire.

We sent a representative from our concerned neighbors contingent to get the scoop. Turns out, the police had stumbled on a newly established cannabis garden. Lots of high-end electronics were in the house as well.

We sat out, drank some beers and watched the rest of the bust unfold. After securing the proper warrants, the officers divested the house of most of the evidence and left. A short while later, one of the tenants arrived home to find a blackened garage and police tape across the entrances. Without leaving the comfort of his jacked up Ram, our new neighbor left in a cloud of smoke and rubber. As I waved goodbye I commented to the neighbors my wonder at who our new neighbors would end up being.