Mikey D

Grace and I love Rita's for dessert; It's the perfect summer treat. Tonight we went out after dinner to get some at our local Rita's. We had a really beautiful day down here, so we decided to eat it outside on a bench nearby.

As we sat and ate, Grace started telling me a story about one of her coworkers who was thinking about buying a house in Howard County (the county we live in), and how she told them that Howard County is extremely overrated. You see, everyone in the state of Maryland thinks Howard County is God's gift to home owners...but quite frankly, after living here for a year, it's not all it's cracked up to be.

Anyway, just as Grace had finished uttering the word "overrated", two guys who looked like they spent more time in a gym than in the light of day appeared out of nowhere and started frisking four teenage guys on the bench next to us. Underneath their tight muscle shirts appeared two cop badges.

As the two guys frisked the boys, another cop appeared out of a nearby shop. A third boy was searched, and one of the muscle men cops reached into the boy's pocket and found something. He celebrated his find by holding it in the air and shouting out in joy (he sounded like Joe from Family Guy, which I thought was amusing). Then his partners and him started cuffing all the boys.

One of the boys mothers came along and asked what was going on, and one of the officers told them they had crack on them. Nice. Before the mother could say anything, a car pulled up next to the ongoing arrest and shouted for the mother. The mother, with a "hey gurlllll", left her boy and went and chatted. Again, nice.

Since this all came out of the blue, I began to piece things together...
1) Grace and I sat down on the bench just as the group of boys sat on their bench.
2) One of the boys continuously went in and out of the nearby Duncan Donuts. Being the naive soul that I am, I assumed he had a friend working at Duncan Donuts. Yeah, a "friend".
3) A cop pulled up and parked his car and said hello to the boys, and then proceeded into the closest store.
4) After a visit to the donut shop, the "runner" showed his friends something. Again, me being naive, I thought it was money and that he was lending his friend money.
5) The cops show up, and the rest is history.

I can only assume that the cops set the boys up in Duncan Donuts and after they were able to get the sell busted them on the spot.

I can also assume that I would be a terrible detective and/or cop, as I was totally oblivious to the shady interactions that were going on around me.

Still, kind of cool to see. A crack deal gone bad, and we had front row seats. What were you saying about Howard County, Grace?

~Mikey D