A couple of weeks ago one morning, while I was getting ready to return to work after a few days off, I heard on the scanner that police were looking for a stolen explorer and that it had crashed into an old building up in the old part of town. I grabbed my camera and headed that way, on a very cold February morning…I called the newspaper editor of our local paper on the way, Jim said he was closeby and responded as well…I have worked with Jim and the paper…. providing them with many images for their local editions over the years. I arrived ahead of the Fire Department and talked to one of our City Public Works employees who told me that the driver of the explorer nearly struck the city truck he was driving and then veered across the funeral home lawn and into the side of the historic home that houses a jewelry store…..

…the story on the scanner was that the explorer was occupied by two people, who both fled the explorer after the collision with the building…however when I arrived, the driver had returned….the damage to the home seemed much greater than the damage to the explorer….luckily no one inside the home was injured.