andrea's spare time

this is a picture of me taking a picture of myself in an autozone security camera. (i'm wearing white standing at the door.) my photo doesn't do it justice because the image i could see this morning was sharp and colorful. i hope it got good video of the guys who robbed this store in north houston... where i was doing my live reports this morning.

from what the investigators say, it was a crazy string of events: 

1st- gunmen run into store demanding cash (11:30pm -ish)

2nd- pizza delivery guy shows up (to buy an auto part, although the story might be a bit cooler if he were actually there to deliver a pizza.) he gets jumped and robbed by the "lookout" man at the front of the store.

3rd - a houston police officer drives by on patrol and sees what's happening.  that makes the lookout man yell "cop!" and all the robbers run out of the store and hop the fence in the back to get away.

the robbers were in such a hurry they:

a/ left their getaway car running

b/dropped $3,000 in cash

c/both of the above

if you answered "c" you must have been watching this morning! good for you!

but there's no indication of any shots being fired, no one seriously hurt, and a police officer right there when you need him. (please don't take that the wrong way. we don't all have personal police protection so we know we will usually see an officer after we have a chance to call for help. our officers do a great job.)

and i think the only reason the officer could see there was trouble is because the pizza man was jumped in the front of the store. the other gunman were in the back, out of sight trying to get the cash.

as i was saying this morning, if it's possible to have an armed robbery with a happy ending, this may be it.

so now... how about it? do you have any stories of something that started out terrible but had a happy ending?