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My other reply was very long… But I’m not letting you get away with the comment about harboring a criminal. You have to tell me the story. I want to hear it. Either reply to this, or DM me. I’m sure it’s very interesting. This is what I come to this forum for. To interact with real people. Not to see the same post over and over and over again. I already know the state of the nation, I’d like to meet up with people, with stories like this. Please share with me!
Haha nothing slips past you huh? So I booked an airbnb down the shore with my last remaining friend. We had been wanting to do a vacation together for years and never did it due to different circumstances.
This year I've sure it happened, I fronted the expenses so we could go on with it and it went through. So day 1 we do some food shopping (which we never ended up making because we just partied, went to the beach, ate out, etc).
That first night was amazing. It was warm, the sun started going down and the sky was a medley of gorgeous pastel colors, a gentle sea breeze tickling the skin. I knew it would be a great night.
And it was, met a bunch of people. This was shortly after Jersey took down mandates and it was my first time in like a year actually going out and it feeling like it should without distancing and masks and all that bs.
Shore people and western/central/southern Jersey folk are pretty based, it's the northeasterners that fuck it up, which is exactly where I am, I can see NYC from where I live xD
Anyway, night goes on and bars close, so we head back to our little rental house. As my friend fumbles for the key I see a hat in the backyard and I'm confused. I realize it's some dude laying on his back, so I yell out, "Ey guy, you okay?"
He gets up and walks toward me, he's shaken up. I see that and start some casual chatter to make him feel at ease. He is being ambiguous but I'm not prodding.
Just saying he's in trouble, that he messed up, dude just looked defeated. I figured he cheated on his lady and she booted him from his house or something. I invite him inside because it's getting chilly, offer him a beer, he asks for my phone so he can contact his niece. He tries but she doesn't answer.
In any case he tells me he's gotta go and will probably go to Ohio. I ask him if he wants to sleep on the couch as my friend and I each had our own bedrooms, but he says he just wants to go.
I call him an uber to the train station and give him some cash to take trains or busses or whatever he needs because I felt for him.
Next day I get a call from his niece asks me who the fuck I am and what the fuck am I involved in. I tell her to chill the fuck out, and explained the last night. She tells me her uncle shot some dude in the head in Brooklyn and fled.
Somehow he fled from Brooklyn and ended up in my rental backyard iver 80 miles away the same night he did this.
She sent me a link to a police report with his mugshot and the crime and sure enough he was wanted for homicide in Brooklyn.
He ended up getting caught at the train station or shortly thereafter.
Honestly at that point my friend was freaking out and I chuckled and told him, "It's only day 1 of our vacation." 😆
That’s a great story. So did the police contact you? Did they have any questions for you?
You just never know in this world but you’re going to come up against. Thank the Lord that he was protecting you, and keeping you safe.
It sucks sometimes it when you help somebody, they turn out to be a worthless loser. But we just don’t know he might accept Jesus Christ tomorrow, and that kindness that you showed him, may be the actual key.
Like you said… He looked defeated, he told you personally he messed up. I am not saying what he did was OK, or even feeling sorry for him. But if you’re active kindness can save his soul from eternal damnation, then well done good and faithful servant.!
Some people go to prison, and end up becoming pastors, or seek God in a major way. Win souls - and come out of prison doing a lot of good in the world. I know this is the exception to the rule, but I’ll be praying for him.
Thanks for sharing your story. You have a great writing style as well.
Thank you! I have my own colorful past so I try to keep perspective. I was walking my dog when I was typing up the experience to you and saw traffic at a halt at an intersection. There was a homeless dude sitting on the street and scooching across the crosswalk holding up traffic. Never a dull moment 🤣
Oh and police never contacted me. He had no phone or anything and I imagine his cousin never forwarded info to the police.
I was expecting so, but thankfully, no.
Well I hope you had a great vacation. I’m sure you’ll have stories to tell for years to come.