Lawrence Bellow, 12, snapped a photo on his cellphone of the suspicious van parked outside his home. “It looked too fake to be true, but I didn’t want to get a closer look for sure,” he said. “I was kind of nervous about it.
“I didn’t know what was going on so I just wanted to get evidence in case anything happened.” He had a gut feeling the white van with blacked out windows and no licence plate could be trouble. His mother first noticed it at Walmart on Friday, then came home to find it parked on her street. Word about the van quickly spread.
It turns out the van belongs to a family friend of Sierra Deblonk, who was on his way to the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada. “It was a joke,” she said. Sierra says her family didn’t realise it would cause so much concern. “It’s nice to know that if was there actually a creepy white van around that people would be taking notice of that,” she said. The van has since left the area.
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3 comments:
I don't think it was the van that was suspicious. I'm not a grammar Nazi but it bugs me how many people (especially journalists) don't know the difference between suspect and suspicious.
In retrospect, the campaign to get Candy the stripper/hooker out of police custody was poorly thought out.
I enjoy kids too
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