Cops

I don't normally watch the TV show, Cops, because more often than not it erodes my faith in the inate goodness of humanity. Still, every now and then I end up catching part of an episode. By "catching part of an episode" I mean that the batteries in the remote are dying and I'm too lazy to get up and change the channel. Today was such a day.

In today's episode I watched a well-meaning officer knock furiously on an elderly woman's door yelling at her to get out of her house. "Your house is on fire! You've got to get out! Let me in!"-he screamed. The woman was slow to react and seemed confused. She put on her robe and looked as if she was finally going to open the door for the officer when he started breaking all the windows in the front of her house. The woman was very visibly upset and flustered. Finally she opened the front door and the officer bolted into her home and started searching the house for other occupants. Finding none, he escorted the very reluctant woman out into the street where a crowd was gathering to watch the home burn.

So what about this episode was blogworthy? Well, the house that was burning didn't belong to the elderly woman. It was the house nextdoor that was ablaze. The well-meaning officer smashed all the front windows, and broke into the home to rescue the woman from a house that was not, in fact, on fire. Hilarious!