A Thief’s Surprise
1 Andrea and her brother, Dan, arrived early that afternoon and parked their car near the parade route for the annual Christmas Parade. Many shops had closed along the parade route. Dan enthusiastically watched the parade. He wanted to hear his school’s band perform the music they had worked on so hard all semester. Meanwhile, Andrea went window shopping at the glass storefronts nearby. Suddenly she noticed a flash of light to her left. It came from the reflection of a man’s watch. He was looking intensely into the music store window nearby.
2 Dan was listening intently as the school band marched by. The music was so loud it was deafening. At the same moment, Andrea glanced to the left and noticed the same man, just before he used a sledgehammer to break through the glass window of the music store. In shock, Andrea ran to get her brother. She screamed, "Dan, come here!" However, he could not hear her above the sounds of the marching band. In desperation, she grabbed Dan from behind and turned him around. "Dan, there is a man down the street who is robbing a music store!" Dan was the star wrestler on his school team and was ready to put his talents to good use. He ran as fast as he could.
3 Dan arrived at the music store at the same time that the thief was coming out of the store, clutching an expensive electric guitar. Luckily for Dan, the thief did not have a gun. In an expeditious manner, Dan put the thief into a headlock and forced him to the sidewalk. By then, Andrea had found a police officer, who then arrested the would-be larcenist.
