I Fought the Law

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I Fought the Law
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One day I decided to sell my saxophone because I needed some cash and I arranged online to meet a buyer at McDonalds so he could look it over. Since I'd arrived early I parked a block away (closer to the main street) and went shopping. Upon returning to my car I thought it was no big deal to walk a few more steps to the meeting place so I grabbed my sax off the back seat and set off with dollar signs in my eyes. About halfway there a car comes flying towards me, then the driver hammers on the brakes and mounts the curb in front of me. Before the car had even stopped three of the occupants leap out, surrounded me and started yelling questions at me. "Where did you get that from?" "Why would you be walking the streets with it?" And so on. One of the men stepped closer, flashed me a badge ( I presume they were cops, but I really didn't look), put his hand on my shoulder and told me he could help me if I just told them the truth. I managed to say the sax was mine and I was going to sell it. Mr "step closer cop" gave his smugest grin and said "why don't you play us a tune, Mr Music man?" (and there's me thinking he was my friend) - so I launched into the only tune that came to mind - the theme song from the Flintstones. Lots of people had gathered to see what was going on and some of them cheered and broke into applause when I finished. All the plain clothes plod were laughing hard and thumping each other on the back, then without a word (like sorry) got back into the car and drove away flashing me a thumbs up. I was so stunned I stood there for another ten minutes just staring up the road after them, but despite arriving late, I managed to sell the instrument. I used the money to bu a guitar - I parked right outside the music store and made the owner walk out to my car and put it in the boot for me. He seemed to think I was odd.

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