Nighttime Lights

As we were sitting at the dining room table after playing a game tonight, Doug saw police lights through the kitchen window. Jeny, Doug and I promptly did our civic duty and became gawking bystanders peering through three different slats in the blinds (according to height).

As we were diligently observing the spectacle, one of the two police officers literally kicked in the door. Gasps and awes from the audience. There was one woman outside at the time. We watched as they ran into the house and started flipping on lights looking about. The ambulance and the fire truck showed up as they were going through the house. The people in the house came outside and picked up their groceries...what????? Now we were totally confused! Jeny, Doug and I all had different conclusions to the mystery on Stewart Loop although we came up with the stories as we were watching and before the last bit of info seen at the bottom of this post.

Jeny's story of the not so graceful old lady:
Jeny believes that there was an old woman inside and she fell down the stairs. She had locked the door and was not able to get up when her family got home so the daughter, just arriving from the grocery store, called the police and they kicked in the door to get to her quickly.

Doug's story of the child stabbing:
Doug believes that there was a small child inside who was upstairs when his mother got home. When he heard her knocking he started to run down the stairs and as he took the second to last step he tripped and stabbed himself with the knife that he was playing with. He was trying to move quickly so as to put the knife away so he would not get in trouble. The mother called the police who kicked the door down to get to him faster.

My story of the intruder:
I believe that as the woman got home she noticed a few signs of disturbance outside of her home... the front light was no longer on although she was sure that she had left it on and the two car toys had been moved of the small patio and placed to the left of the front door. She then heard some rummaging about inside and, not wanting to take any chances, called the police and waited for them to arrive for she was scared there might be an intruder. When they arrived they felt that it was necessary to kick down the door so as to take the intruder by surprise.

Reality:
Then the fire truck left while it seemed that the police filed a report. A woman was carried on a stretcher to the ambulance without alarm or rushing. She seemed fine but left in the ambulance without the lights on and then the police left as well. Not quite as exciting as we imagined but the reality was a much better ending to the story than Doug and I came up with although Jeny's story was completely plausible.