Umm. I'll Be in a Bunker Somewhere.

The last 2 days have been eventful in ways I wish they hadn't been. Yesterday, I came home and went through my normal routine. I was in the middle of changing into clothes to clean the house when I heard something explode.

Turns out, it was my neighbor's garage.

By the time I got outside, the street was populated with people staring and fire engines swarming around the flame-engulfed blue house on the corner.

A couple of hours later, the blaze was extinguished and the house, garage and multiple cars where shells of their former selves. Fortunately, no one was hurt and we all moved on with our lives.

So, today, I came home early and was in my home office (reinstalling SQLServer on my work laptop) and heard a screeching and a loud bang. I raced out the front door to see a stolen beige Honda wrapped around one of the maples in my front yard. Running away from the car was a dark blond 16 year old kid in a blue shirt.

I yelled and the kid hesitated for a second, but kept running. I chased him into the courtyard of the nearby apartments where he apparently (according to the guy I found there) stole some kid's bike. I tried to see if I could see where he went at the park.

About that time, the rest of the neighbors who came out had called the cops and they showed up. Apparently, the kid had stolen a purse at the gas station by the highway, then taken a car and started his joyride. As he found his way into my neighborhood, he realized that it was a dead end and took a hard left in an attempt to get back out of the neighborhood. He tore through my neighbor's yard, across their driveway and into my tree: rendering the stolen car a wreck and getting a closeup view of the airbag.

I spent most of the next couple of hours dealing with the cops, having the car extracted from my tree and recounting the above story to all of the neighbors who came home in the mean time.

If this trend continues, I think my best course of action is to find a bunker and stay there until its safe. So it goes.