The "Whoa! I Finally Got Caught!!" Story

It was an ordinary day. We had been back from our latest trip for about a week and today in the mail we got a letter from the Manheim Township Police Department. They're telling us we need a license to have a home security system with an alarm. Now how did they know that we had one of those? My friend Wayne, who is a township police Detective, knows that we have a home security system, but would never say anything in at the station. Actually, I didn't know that I needed to tell the police department. Do they walk around the township and see who has a sticker on their door from a security company? And to get the license we must pay $25! Luckily it is not a one year deal. At least I hope not. OK, let's do a little investigation, I thought. First I called Wayne and said, "Hey Wayne, when you go in to work tomorrow can you check to see how you guys know I have a security system?" "Sure, I'll see what I can find out," he says. Well, the next day he calls me from the station and says that last week while we were on vacation, the police made a emergency visit to my house because my alarm went off. Yarnell Security, who I have the system with, called them immediately after no one called with the security pass word. Then I thought, who was at my house ........ oh yea, my parents were pet sitting while we were on vacation, but they always disarm the security system when they go in the house and when I got home they said everything went smooth during our vacation. I called Wayne back and asked him if he knew anything else about why they made the call. He let me talk to the officer that was at the house and he told me that my parents set the alarm off and must have panicked and forgot the code, because when he got there it was still going off. The cats must have been going nuts, as well as my parents. The officer called Yarnell and they told him how to disarm the system, which he did. If they are called to the house they check to see if you have a license for the system displayed next to the keypad, which I did not, so hence, the letter. And now I have 30 days to pay or I'm subject to a $500 fine and or imprisonment. Whoa! Sent in my check and never said anything to mom and dad who were probably so embarrassed by the whole thing that they didn't want to tell us. I now have my license displayed right next to the keypad in my house. The one good thing that came out of the encounter was that I know that the alarm system really works!! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.