We caught a thief!!!

Some days are filled with more excitement than others. Today I was out getting the mail when I saw a group of 4 boys riding bikes. Since Connor's bike was stolen, I keep my eyes open for suspicious activity in the neighborhood. Right away these boys seemed to be up to no good. There was a bike in the yard across the street next to the sidewalk where they stopped. The boys stopped there at the corner and I heard them say "Hey, this bike must be free!" I wanted to say to them that they better not take that bike if it isn't theirs, but I thought they saw me watching them and would know better. Well, one of the boys got off the bike he was riding and took the bike that was sitting in the yard. He rode one way and the rest of the boys went the other way, and I heard them say they would meet up. In the meantime, I had Cody get Travis from the house, and Travis went to look for the boys. He saw them in a park up the street and they all had bikes that were spray painted. Obviously all stolen. He questioned the boys and a couple of them told him the name of the other boy that took the bike. As Travis was coming home I saw the boy that took the bike coming back to meet up with his friends. I waved Travis down and told him that was the boy that took the bike. Travis went after him and told him to stop and he brought him back up the street. Sure enough, the boy had gone home and painted the once orange bike with blue spray paint to disguise it. We called the police and awaited their arrival. The policeman put the boy in the back of his car after hearing our statements and proceeded to try to find the owner of the bike. As Cody was watching all of this he saw the police car across the street with the boy inside and said "don't worry, you'll look good in prison orange." I laughed. He had just heard that phrase the day before on a SpongeBob episode. Hilarious! Hopefully a lesson learned for our boys to be good. :-)