Crime Doesn't Pay...

The next story happened to a woman named Suzette. She was a woman darter shooting with me on a ladies' league. Suzette lived in the city of Chicago. Since it's such a large metropolitan area many people take the bus to get to work (parking downtown can run $300.00+ per month!). It was a Friday night and Suzette was taking the bus home from work and then walk the last few blocks from the bus stop to her house. It was turning dusk and this story might not have happened had it not already turned dark outside.

As Suzette got off of the bus, she was chatting with a couple of friends and laughing. It was a Friday night, work was over for the week, and Suzette had big weekend plans. Spirits were high, she was with her friends and looking forward to the weekend. Truth be told, Suzette probably was more involved in conversing with her friends then in keeping her eyes open on everything around her. And wooooosh, in less then half of a moment, a man came running out of nowhere, grabbed her purse off of her shoulder and kept on running. Living in the city it's usually a smart idea to be aware of your surroundings and what's going on because sometimes these things happen. Like Willie, Suzette was a lively kinda darter and she was outraged that someone had the gonads to actually try to steal her purse. She wasn't going to have her evening ruined and she certainly wasn't about to let someone steal her purse, at least not if she could do something about it. In a split second, without even thinking (now remember this guy is running away at full speed with her purse so he's gaining ground with every moment), in that split second, Suzette picked up a rock. She was going to throw the rock at that damned purse snatcher and she was pissed off at that point. Being a darter she had the stance and release down. The stroke is a little different from releasing a dart then throwing a rock but everything else was there. She took aim, wound it up and threw the rock as hard as she could. Well, Suzette wasn't a bad dart thrower and as it turns out she's wasn't a bad rock thrower either. The rock hit the purse-snatcher smack dab in the back of his head. He went down and was unconscious.

So the moral of the story is, if you're going to steal purses (and no one should steal purses to begin with), but if you're going to steal a woman's purse, don't steal a purse from a woman darter. The police came, Suzette got her purse back and she had a great weekend!