Looking back, Patrick Rosario realizes it probably wasn’t the wisest thing to do.
Still, as it turned out, the burglars who tried to loot his Bellevue home got a surprise of their own as they began their escape: Rosario had made off with their getaway car.
As he puts it: “The good guys win for once.”
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He already was dialing 911 as he hurried back down the stairs in soft, flat-soled Pumas, grabbing a hammer in case he was detected. He ran out the back door toward the front of the house.The 911 dispatcher was on the phone as Rosario peeked around the corner, hiding behind a garbage can. That’s when he noticed the exhaust sputtering out of the white Ford Windstar van parked out front.
Seeing no one, he quickly approached. The keys in the ignition, the humming engine, the unlocked driver’s door: It was all too perfect.
Against the 911 dispatcher’s advice, Rosario announced he was going to take it. What jury in the world was going to convict him, he thought?
He drove up a steep hill away from the house, figuring whoever was ransacking his home wouldn’t be able to keep up on foot. He stopped a few blocks away in front of a friend’s house and waited for police.
In my world, when life gives you burglars, you make corpses.
Not everyone lives in my world. This one still makes me slightly warm and fuzzy though.
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All that and half the comments I’ve seen were, “He’s lucky he didn’t get hurt” or “He should not have tried to be a hero” or “That was dumb”. Never mind that the responding officers thought it was a fricken awesome thing for him to do.
He should have lit it on fire or put a grenade in it with a string from the door to the pin…
Stolen vehicle? Did they arrest the burglars?
According to the news the burglars haven’t been caught yet…