All Thanks to Jack Bauer

An interesting little story that happened to our family in which Josh saves the day:

Josh had just gotten home from some meetings at church and was fixing himself some toast when he looked out the window to notice that a man in a big white truck was putting our neighbor boy's bikes in the back of his truck. He thought it odd, especially since there wasn't a license plate on the truck. He quickly called our neighbor and asked if someone was supposed to be picking up their bikes. She wasn't sure and said she would check. We walked outside right after the truck pulled away, as did the neighbor boys and one of them started crying that someone had cut his chain and stolen his bike along with another neighbor boy's bike that they were going to fix.

Well, our hero jumped into our van (not your typical hero vehicle, but in this case it makes it that much more cool :) and drove out to see if he could follow them. He looked and looked and thought he had lost them, when out of the corner of his eagle eyes he spotted the culprit in a grocery store parking lot. Here he turned on the skills that he learned from all of the years of watching "24" (I just knew those hours and hours would pay off someday) and followed them to another store while calling 911. The police met him at the store with 5 (yes 5!) unmarked cars and held a little stake out waiting for him to come out of Sears (bet me he was stealing in there too, okay I am judging...)

Well, I was freaking out in the meantime thinking that Josh was laying dead on the side of the road for following a bike thief. I called his phone but it just went straight to voice mail (I think that is because he was on the phone with 911). Twenty minutes later, in which I was worried to death, he pulled up with two police officers who got everyone's statements and kept us updated about the situation at Sears.

Finally Josh had to leave to go and identify the suspect. He was done another little while, and came back telling us that the police actually had to go in after the man and when he came out of the store they swarmed him and handcuffed him! Wow drama. Josh said he was tempted to take a picture with his phone, but thought better :) Probably a good idea. Later that day the police brought back both of the bikes to happy kids and told the boys that the thief had been taken to jail. So, once in a while good stories do happen especially when their are heroes as courageous (and good looking I might add) as Super Josh around :) The end.