We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto!

This is my feeling today about living in the metroplex.

Most days, I don't feel a difference between living here and anywhere else. But sometimes...every now and then...something happens that gives me a kick swift in the posterior end as a reminder that things are very different here than what I'm used to.

Today a lady and her mom came in shopping. They found several items, mostly wall decor and a few other things. They checked out, and the daughter (probably in her thirties) took a couple of the wall pieces and her bag out to the car and was going to pull up closer to the store so her mom didn't have to walk. She had her purse on her shoulder, the bag in one hand, and was putting the two wall pieces in her trunk. She heard a car passing behind her. Suddenly, a woman jumped out of the car, and tried to yank her purse off of her shoulder. The customer yelled "no" and shoved the woman's face away from her, trying to get away. The woman told her not to fight her or she would shoot her. About that time, the customer looked down and saw a coke bottle in the woman's pocket. She said, "Oh, with what? That coke bottle?" The woman again tried taking the lady's purse, and the customer again resisted and was able to punch the woman in the face and try to take off. When she did, the driver got out of the car and tried taking her purse, but only got away with her Kirkland's bag. They jumped back in the car and took off. The customer was able to get a description of the car, but not the license plate number. She came back in the store and told us what happened. We called 911.

When the police came and was taking her statement, there was a call over the scanner. A man and woman of the same description, in the same kind of vehicle, was seen doing the same thing in the WalMart parking lot. This time the victim was injured. The police left for about 30 minutes so they could go assist there, but they came back and finished the report for our lady.

I'm so thankful that she was not hurt. Evidently, the police said that they had hit another place before our lady's incident, then they went over to WalMart. Not sure if they hit any other places. They had the Lake Worth, Azle, and Ft. Worth police depts all looking for them. Hopefully no one else was injured.

I don't like that kind of excitement to blog about.