Well, NOW my fingerprints are on the murder weapon!!!!!

[Gerald Creasy]

So I'm headed home today, tired from a mandatory Saturday work (off at 7:30 am Sat morning). So I think I'll pull into McDs and get a skillet burrito. I sit and sit and sit and nothing moves and I get ticked and pull out having wasted 10 minutes doing nothing when I could already be home.

I hit the expressway and am on my end of town in about another ten, intending to try another McDs closer to the house.
But you know...I'm still too ticked at drivethrus and decide to just go home and fix my own.

Intending to take a recently discovered shortcut, I make a wrong turn into an elementary school entrance (the correct turn being the next one down).

As I pull into the drive I see:
THERES A GUN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD!
Nah, I read too many mysterys. So i keep on going discover quickly I've turned wrong and I loop around and head back and THERES STILL A GUN IN THE ROAD.

So I stop.

Step out.
I'm standing in the entrance of an elementary school.
Immediately to my right is a public park.
I can see the Childrens swings.
To my left is apartments.
AND AT MY FEET IS A SAWED OFF SHOTGUN.
Still thinking I'm mistaken, I picked the thing up. It's weight told me it was real. It's metal was severly scuffed where it had clattered to the road.

On the other side of the park is the Police station. So I lay the thing between my van seats and head to the Police station.
As I pull up I quickly realize I can't carry the thing inside. So I go in and nervously talk to the guy behind the desk.
He pages and officer and the guy comes out and I open my car door and tell him where it is.
He pulls it out and examines it and walks over to the bushes and points the thing down into the land scaping. It takes a coupla tries but he cracks the thing open. Thankfully it's empty.
Stupidly (and not still believeing) I ask..Hey I'm not a gun person but that's a sawed off shotgun isnt it?
The officer walks me in and jokes with thte desk jockey about putting his fingerprints on an illegal firearm.
And I realize that mine are on it as well.
The officer takes my name and address and thanks me....gives me that....Is-this-guy-what-he-seems-to-be-or-is-he-hiding-something look
But what else could I do? A sawed off shotgun and tons of kids around every day?
I hope it wasnt a murder weapon or my adventure is just beginning.

[INLOVE]

Couldn't you have called the police and waited for them to come to you?

[Gerald Creasy]

Couldn't you have called the police and waited for them to come to you?

Wouldn't you know it, my cell phone battery was dead.

[INLOVE]

Couldn't you have called the police and waited for them to come to you?

Wouldn't you know it, my cell phone battery was dead.

Well, hopefully that isn't the only thing dead!

[TW]

You did the right thing Gerald. No matter what happens from this you are responsible for removing an illegal and dangerous weapon from the streets. That is worth whatever hassles might happen.


TW

[DeWayneTN]

Wow - what a story.

[one love]

your done Bro... i will be praying.


Ok seriously why would you walk in and hand them your murder weapon, plus you did the right thing a kid could have got a hold of it and that is all you NEED a sawed off shot gun in a 12 year olds hand. Good for you.

[Sherry]

Good move Gerald, you are officially my hero for the day!

Oh and please make sure your phone battery is charged from now on!

[Paully_44]

incredible story.

[TW]

Gerald,
Not to worry about the prints man. Shotguns are smooth bore, so they can't trace anything fired through then by the rifling marks, you no the lands and grooves. You only need to be concerned if you left the shell casings at the scene of the crime. Then they could match them against casing from the gun you "turned in." So there's no prob, bud. Stick with your story and you'll get over on them.


TW

p.s. Good alibi, stuck in the drive thru at MickieDee's, never would have thought of that one.

[Full Quiver]

Thank you Gerald for keeping that gun outta the hands of kids or criminals.

I make a wrong turn into an elementary school entrance

You made the right turn bro.

[Gerald Creasy]

Thanks folks for your comments.

The confluence of events is so different for my schedule. I only occasionally work Saturdays, I rarely ever go to McDs immediately after work and it's even more rare for me to be so patient in line....and then mixing up two streets both of which are school access streets....I WAS MEANT to be there.

The area has been semi-rough for years. A bank teller was shot and killed at a bank a coupla blocks down and there have been many holdups in that section.

[Mat]

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[free]

You did good Gerald...If you get locked up for some reason we'll have Todd Bently come and start a prison ministry. I'm sure he can cast that sprit of bondage off of you...At least that's what an angel told me...Oh, never mind!

[rjc]

Thanks folks for your comments.

The confluence of events is so different for my schedule. I only occasionally work Saturdays, I rarely ever go to McDs immediately after work and it's even more rare for me to be so patient in line....and then mixing up two streets both of which are school access streets....I WAS MEANT to be there.

The area has been semi-rough for years. A bank teller was shot and killed at a bank a coupla blocks down and there have been many holdups in that section.

Not only were you meant to be there but you did exactly what God sent you to do. Way too many people would have ignored the gun because "they don't want to get involved". I wonder how many lives you saved? Thank you Gerald.