The Stars That Usher Evening Rose

Work yesterday was very interesting to say the least. About 40 minutes after I started working my co-worker ran inside and told me to radio up to the front of the store and tell them to call the police because there is a women being chocked by a man in the parking lot and that he is also trying to kidnap her kid. At first i wasn't sure if he was being serious since it's not every day you hear someone tell you that sort of thing. But I looked outside in direction he was heading and noticed a crowd forming and realized he wasn't joking. So I immediately radioed up to the front and told them what was going on. That was followed by a long pause before I finally got a response from them asking me to repeat what I said, I later found out the pause was due to them making sure they heard me say what they thought I said. So apparently I wasn't only one caught off guard by it. So anyway they call the police and one of the managers comes running up to the front of the store asking me where they all were so I pointed and she ran out there. By then the guy had already fled the scene. Thankfully the women seemed to be fine except for a scratch on her neck and while the child seemed a little rattled he was ok as well. The police came and interviewed several people and took written statements from those who witnessed it. The cop then stayed with the women till she could get someone to come pick her up at which point they followed him to the court house so that she could press charges and put out a warrant for his arrest. 30 or so minutes passed before a customer who witnessed the assault came back out of the store. He told me that in his 48 years on this earth that he had never seen anything like that before and that when he came in the store he had to take some time to himself in order to recompose himself. Apparently this male who assaulted the women also threatened and cursed at one of our employees as well as this customer who saw it take place and made initial call to police. I don't know if they ever caught the guy but I do know they had a discription of him, his car and the license plate so chances are probably pretty high that they got him at some point. So yeah that's how my day at work started yesterday, not every day you get that kind of excitment.