You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™
The Bounty Hunters and the mother of three.
This is a story of someone is lying and someone is hiding from the truth.
The mother claims she hid on the kitchen floor with her children as the bounty hunters entered her house unannounced.
She says they banged and banged and banged.
She says she was afraid to answer.
She says they screamed we can hear you in there.
She says her kids cried.
She says they didn’t identify themselves when they entered through an unlocked back door.
She says they have weapons and they are demanding to know where their suspect is.
“We know he lives here,” they shout.
The man they want is her step brother.
She bonded him out of jail, but she claims he doesn’t live there.
They don’t believe her.
They search her house.
Her kids are crying. All she wants is for them to leave.
When they don’t find the suspect, everyone steps outside.
The mother says she is too afraid to stay in the apartment and is going to stay with a friend.
That’s when she says she locks the door, and because the bounty hunter wants to search it again, he kicks in the door.
She says they search her home again, and this time take her id and an electric bill.
The bounty hunter tells a different story.
The way he tells it, he is a gentleman’s gentleman. He speaks the king’s English and he is polite to me as he recaps the events of that night.
He says he announces his entry into the home.
“I’m entering the threshold” he says.
He says he doesn’t take anything because he has a camera and he photographs what he needs.
He says the mother is a liar and she doesn’t even recognize a wanted poster of her own brother.
The story is loaded, a hot potato.
One of these two is not telling me the truth.
Is it the mother of 3 who answers every question I put before her.
Is it the man on the phone?, the bounty hunter? with the polite demeanor.
The woman wants to prosecute the bounty hunters.
the bounty hunter says he has done nothing wrong.
The District Attorney has refrained from leveling charges because the case is tough to prove.
For Burglary to stick, you need to prove intent to steal, to harm, to commit a crime.
These bounty hunters only intent was to enter the home to find their man.
But did they have the right to do that? The way they did it?
Could they be charged with theft?
Hard to say. Where’s the proof?
How about trespassing?
Why not just slap their hand?
The door is still off the hinges. The children are still scared. The mother is seeking counseling.
The law is the law.
But sometimes the truth is somewhere in between.
The trouble is making it stick.
Life’s Crazy™