Found out that our buddy had some good news when the Stanford Police dept found his heretofore stolen Landcruiser! (see original post)

Apparently it spent enough time sitting in a student parking lot that it had six parking tickets piled up. I guess it is good fortune that they finally checked the plates and noticed it was was a stolen vehicle. Can you imagine the frustration that the owner would have felt if he had gotten a letter "You have six unpaid parking tickets...." on a car that had already been reported stolen!?!?

And speaking of inefficient police behavior:
This morning a motorcycle was sitting in our driveway honking his horn intermittently, for about 15 minutes we heard "beep"... "beeeeeeep beep".... "beep beep beep" with a couple minutes in between. I finally went out to see what was going on and there was a police officer there, on a motorcycle, who told me that someone had reported a robbery nearby. He didn't have the house number nor did he know the name of the person (and seemed a little surprised that I had asked). He asked me if I could call the station to ask them about the house number and/or name but I couldn't get through (line was busy). I suggested he look at the other houses in our area as the ones on our small circle (of five houses) didn't seem to be showing signs of people expecting the police. He seemed to think that was a pretty good idea, and off he went. Hope he found the folks who had called.

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