OT: Burglar Caught

Groggy · 2005-08-21T09:34:48+00:00

I have a shed on the side of the house with a roller door at each end.This is handy to carry stuff straight through to the back or to parkthe car in (when I am out of lumber). Last night, since I had been inand out of the shed all day, I'd only closed the yard side of the shedand was just leaving the front door when I heard a noise in the shed.I snuck around and peeked into the end of the shed and, in the gloom,saw the tail of Sally the shop dog happily wagging as she was tearinginto a bag of MacDonalds she'd dragged from the bin.Since she knows this is a definite no-no, I thought I'd teach her alesson and scare the bejeezus outta her. I snuck up on her as quietlyas I could and, I must admit, did a great job of it. Trying to stopmyself from laughing, I slowly reached to grab her in the ribs andyell out. Thankfully, the wind was blowing toward me and she didn'tcatch my scent.Anyway, she was buried deep in the McBag (it was over her head) andher shoulders were half under the shelf. Perfect, the silly mutt wasgonna freak out.I grabbed her ribs and yelled "Bad Dog!", then started laughing - forabout two seconds...What came out of the bag was not my dog! It was someone else'sLabrador wearing a surprised look and lots of teeth. It had banged itshead on the way out from under the shelf, then had backed between mylegs, snapping and snarling - not good. Inside the house, my dog wasnow going nuts, further scaring the new dog. I went ass up trying toget away from the teeth and paws of the mutt desperately trying to getaway, which thankfully it did. Leaving me, totally shattered, in aheap in the shed.It took hours for the heart rate to go down.