On my way to St Hives I met a man with seven Hives...

[megamania]

I had quite the night last night.

I spent 2 hours with the State Police.

I will NEVER be a good samaritan again. NEVER.

 

[Blackrat]

Yeah, good deeds never go unpunished.

 

[Relique du Madde]

What happened?

 

[Dog Moon]

Yes, we would like to know so we avoid doing the same thing in the future.

 

[megamania]

What happened?

About 5 minutes after we closed the store on Sunday two women and a man walked to the store. They were obviously very cold and asked if they could come in to get warm. Strict rules of the company- once the door is locked, no one can come in.

My co-worker and I continued on closing the store with them freezing outside. Finally at 12:45 we were done and we went to leave. As we left, they asked about motels. I offered them a ride to a motel. My co-worker suggested she would follow. Their car had slide into a gully when trying to turn around.

After the third motel we found everyone was closed. I offered them a ride to the nearest large town (about 15 minutes away). They agreed and offered money. I said no. I just asked if they encountered anyone in need to help them. "World would be a better place if we all looked out for each other".

As we went I spotted a tow truck turning up the road where they said their car went off the road. I asked if they wanted to check on it and they agreed. No biggie.

As we reached the area where the car was we spotted a state trooper. "We....ah.... we can check on the car tommorrow." WARNING WILL ROBINSON WARNING!

So I made a point of leaving my high beams on as I passed the trooper slowly hoping he would take note of me. I went about 300ft then he followed me with his light ons.

The one woman quickly states the plates don't match that car. She was in the process of selling it and the plates belong to the new owners. WARNING WARNING!

2 hours later and each of the three being taken out and spoken to individually I am then asked to step out of the car.

Turns out the two females has a record of drug smuggling fbetween NY and VT and the guy is a complete unknown to the police. Keep in mind, there was a police shootout in the town they were going to involving drugs originating from where they were from. OH CARP

Police find nothing they can hold the people on but say they can pull the people from my car so that I can cut ties which I do.

So......
I had drug runners in my car and possibly someone involved in police related shootings......


Some night.

 

[Dog Moon]

Wow, crazy. You might be lucky they didn't have anything though or else they might have been dangerous depending on if they felt like they might be getting caught.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

OTOH, you could look at it as the good you've done in your life paying you a little dividend, keeping you out of the worst of trouble when you were in a bad situation.

You know, kind of like that woman a few years ago who was being held hostage by an escaped, soon-to-be convicted cop killer...and managed to talk him into surrendering.

 

[megamania]

Cathy won her soccer game. She and the team are headed for the state finals on Saturday. No DnD con for me.

 

[megamania]

OTOH, you could look at it as the good you've done in your life paying you a little dividend, keeping you out of the worst of trouble when you were in a bad situation.

Where was that karma when I was nearly bankrupt and suicidal?

You know, kind of like that woman a few years ago who was being held hostage by an escaped, soon-to-be convicted cop killer...and managed to talk him into surrendering.

Lordy- when they said they would check on the car the next day so many things and options ran through my head from the kidnapping / held up thing to drugs being placed within the car. Ah well... option one worked.... get police attention.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Mega, karma is actually a tricky thing. Karmic logic (if there is one) rewards good deeds and punishes bad deeds. It also negatively reinforces negatives so that a possitive seems more possitive and balances the negative with rewards that seem insignificant but are truly substantial.

Look at your situation at a different angle. The cards were stacked against you and something horrible could have easily happened. Yet you made it out with your life, car, and no jail time or a citation. *Maybe* From a karmic point of view, that was your reward... after all the flip side of the karmic coin is a lot worst. So in essence your reward was to have the ability to reflect on life, your family, friends etc to cherish them all because how it all could have been taken away from you in a moment and unsuspectingly.


Then again, maybe karma is bunk and what happened was as insignificant as a butterfly flapping its wings in Mumbai during the middle of summer. In that case... any relevations it may have brought about amounts to just the phrase "move alone nothing to see here".