Cops Are Useless!!!

I'm pissed off, so sorry if this post is less than cordial. I've not had a good morning. But at least I'm skipping work again. Allow me to explain.

This morning, I got up to get ready for work. I was running a bit late again, and Barry had already left. I was really tired again. I've been having trouble sleeping lately, what with all the creepy goings on. So I got ready, grabbed a Mountain Dew out of the fridge to try and wake myself up a bit, and went to my car. But when I got to my car, I noticed a pile of something on the hood. As I got close, I could see that there were three dead birds. Normally, a dead bird wouldn't suprise me, but there were three of them sitting there, three big black dead birds, and they were arranged in the shape of a triangle, head to tail. Well, that struck me as odd, and coupled with the weird note I got, I figured that this wasn't a "natural" occurance, that probably someone had put them there. So, I did what I thought was right, and what Optimus Skiver has recommended I do. I called the cops.

COPS ARE USELESS!!!!

I'm sorry if you know a cop and are offended by that statement. But it's true. So I called the police, and told them I'd received a threatening letter and there was a dead animal on my car, and they told me they'd send a patrol car over as soon as they could. So I waited around, and about two hours later this cop shows up. He looked to be about my age. THis is roughly how the conversation went.

Cop - Hello, are you JD?

Me - Yes. Thanks for coming out. Here's the dead animals I found on my car this morning. (I gestured towards the hood of my car).

Cop - (Smirking) Yea, so some kids were playing with some dead birds. Is that all.

Me - (pausing) Um....so you think some kids took some dead birds and arranged them in a triangle on the hood of my car?

Cop - Well, who do you think did it? Besides, it's not like they broke a law or anything.

Me - Well, what about this (I pulled the letter I found yesterday out of my pocket and handed it to the cop)?

Cop - (Reading letter) And this was foudn with the birds?

Me - No. I found it yesterday. Someone had slipped it under my door.

Cop - (Smirking) Huh, so how does this have anything to do with the birds?

Me - (Pausing in disbelief) What do you mean? It's a threat!

Cop - (holding the letter out in front of me) Where did they threaten you exactly?

Me - With the whole "watching me in my sleep" line. Isn't that against the law. They're basically saying they're going to stalk me. Isn't that illegal?

Cop - Well, I guess so, but only if you can identify who it is. Do you know who might have wanted to send something like this to you?

Me - I have no idea.

Cop - Hmm....I don't see why your conecting this to a couple of dead birds on your car. It sounds unrelated to me. Probably just some kids pranking you or something.

Me - So what should I do? I don't want to keep getting harrasing letters, and I don't like finding dead animals on my car.

Cop - (sighing heavily) Look, keep the letter (handing the letter back to me). If you get another one, or you find some more animals or something, then give us a call and we'll file a report. But for now, this looks like a coincidence to me. Anyone could have sent this letter to you. You could have sent it to yourself.

Me - (getting angry) I didn't...

Cop - Look, I'm not saying you did, but until we have something more concrete than a vaguely threatening letter and some dead birds to go on, no one is going to take this seriously. (He started walking back to his car) Listen, if something else happens, then give us a call, and we'll look into it. For now, just try to relax, and if you can think of any reason why anyone would want to send this to you, make a note of it in case this continues. I've got to get going. (Get's in car)

Me - (Standing there watching the cop drive away) Thanks for nothing...


So now I'm at home, paranoid to leave my apartment, and paranoid to stay in it. I could probably handle one thing at a time, but weird ghost crap mixed with weird stalker crap is a bit to much right now. I just need to calm down.