A Bad Episode of "Cops"

William could hear someone yelling, "Get down on the ground" but didn't quite put it together with the sounds of the roaring motor until it was too late. He ended up almost pinned between 2 cars at the Beaverlodge A & W. That is how the story ended but luckily there were no broken bones just some bad bruises.

Earlier yesterday morning a truck from a local business has been stolen in Grande Prairie. The employee had phoned back to Beaverlodge to ask for a ride back to our town because his truck had gone missing. The fellows from D. Ray Construction started for GP to get him and before they got very far the pick up met them just outside of town. They phoned back to the shop and got the dispatcher to phone the police. Spinning a u turn and hurry back toward Beaverlodge they followed. The dispatcher also headed toward the main highway just in time to see the truck turn into the Esso/A & W and toss a package to a waiting vehicle. Unknown to the drivers in the stolen truck, they were being persued by other employees. They needed some lunch, so they popped into the drive thru.

My mother-in-law was meeting a friend there to travel with her to GP. Parked side by side with her friend along the side of the drive thru my father-in-law, who was having a coffee there, was telling his lovely wife to put on a warmer coat. All of a sudden there was yelling and racing motor as the police had showed up with guns drawn and the thieves tried to go backward to get away, ramming the D. Ray employees behind them. Figuring they couldn't go backward, they tried to jump the curb, ramming the friends suburban smashing it into my mother-in-law's car and as a result hitting my father-in-law between the vehicle.

We feels so very fortunate that all is okay. Only bruises is such good news. The friends trapped in her suburban is just fine as well. The thieves aka drug runners have a future court date as well as warrants out of BC. I hope they get all they deserve but you know how our justice system works. I don't have much faith in it.