A string of bad luck

I heard a story recently where someone drove to a jail in a stolen vehicle to pick up someone else who was getting out of jail. The deputies just waited for them to walk right into the jail before they informed them that they were under arrest for stealing a car. That’s about the easiest way to catch a criminal. Some people we try to apprehend run until their shoes fall off, but there is always that one person that turns themselves in by accident. Over the years we have had a lot of arrests made from what the person arrested would call “bad luck.” Drunk people driving to the Sheriff’s Office, or people on the most wanted list walking into the Sheriff’s Office are both examples. We had one guy that could not resist his curiosity to see why all the cops were surrounding a house down the road. He just did not think the part through where he would walk by the house to take a look. There were approximately seven cops standing in the front yard looking at him when he decided to do the “don’t look suspicious” walk. In case you did not know, the “don’t look suspicious” walk is a stealthy maneuver where you notice the cops looking at you and then quickly look in the other direction while at the same time, lowering your head and pulling a hood far over your face.

We had a wanted fugitive flag a car down in his attempt to get out of Vernon County. By the time he realized the good Samaritan who stopped to give him a ride was also a Vernon County Deputy, he was already being placed in handcuffs. Bad luck can include accidentally recording your own drug deal for the police to find, running from the cops in a super-fast sports car on an empty tank of gas, or finding that moment to sprint away from the guards but forgetting you are still in leg cuffs. It is understandable that you would be confused about why the cops just arrested you in a drug bust but did not arrest the guy you sold the drugs to. Watching the guy pull out a badge and realizing it was a cop is something that happens to the best of them. But when you get out of jail and sell drugs to the same undercover cop again … well, I think that may be more than just bad luck. Hiding in a closet but not realizing your foot is sticking out is bad luck. Hiding in the ceiling when the ceiling is not strong enough to hold you up is bad luck, and it hurts when you fall through. Calling to report your meth being stolen, well that one is not bad luck, that’s just dumb. Choosing to be a criminal can bring a lot of “bad luck” with it. It does not matter what you call it, the outcome will always be the same. You can run, you can fight, or you can hide, but your past is always going to be attached to you and that is something you can never get away from. If you have left broken pieces in your past, stop and face your problems, and then you can move forward without looking over your shoulder, and without the bad luck.