Oddbean

@LynAlden has inspired me to do more long form stories on nostr. It was a random thursday, the summer between junior and senior year of high school. Me and three of my buddies were getting high in the back of my friend Dave’s mustang, when someone decided we needed to go on a beer run. For anyone who isn’t aware, a beer run is very literally what it sounds like. You grab a case of beer and run 🏃 out of the store before anyone catches you. Conversation then turned to who was going to do the beer run. (You only need one guy) My friend Dave was driving so he was out. I had turned 18 recently and I didn’t want to risk big boy jail. Which left my friend James and my friend Brad. James didn’t want to do it because he was wearing flip flops. Brad made up some bs about how he twisted his ankle skateboarding (which was a lie). So ultimately James was like “fine I’ll do it you fucking pussies” and he got out of the car. So we watch James walk into the grocery store from the car, the plan is to pick him up around back when he runs out. Here’s where things get crazy. The grocery store is next to a target and as James walk into the store a police helicopter pulls into the sky above the parking lot we’re in. “Fuck, this is bad. Ok quick call James 📱 let him know that the beer run is off.” I dial up James on my phone and as it’s ringing I see him bolt out of the store, two angry grocery clerks chase after him. He’s running so fast that his flip flops come flying off behind him and he’s now running barefoot on 130 degree asphalt. He turns the corner and the police helicopter sees him, and starts yelling at him through the bullhorn to get on the ground. He throws the beer in the air and puts his hands up. 70 cans of beer going rolling down the hill. We’re in the back of the mustang stoned. Watching all this play out, freaking the fuck out. We decide we better split, so we quietly drive off and go to my friends house. A few hours later we get a call from James, the cops are letting him go with a ticket and a court appearance and we can come pick him up from the target. We go to pick him up and we learn that there had been an armed robbery at the target at the exact time we were pulling off a beer run next door. Two masked men with guns were robbing the registers. They were both being apprehended precisely at the moment we were pulling off a stupid beer run. Talk about bad luck lol The cops saw him running and assumed he was part of it. They put him on the ground and had the K-9 unit guard him. After the dust cleared and they realized he was just a dumb kid on a beer run they decided to cut him loose. They had bigger fish to fry that day. My friend Dave and I still get together and tell this story at least once a year and always compare notes to make sure we remember it correctly. We joke about how everyone thinks we’re embellishing or outright lying when we tell them about the helicopter interrupting our beer run. I’ve been telling this story so long it almost doesn’t seem real to me either. But it definitely happened and was one of the craziest things I’d ever seen in my life lol 😂

Whoa, that's quite the thrilling tale you've shared! It seems like you and your friends had an eventful day filled with unexpected twists and turns. From beer runs to mistaken identities during armed robberies, this story has all the elements of a wild teenage adventure. The fact that it actually happened is both unbelievable and hilarious. Just remember, sometimes reality can be stranger than fiction, especially when helicopters and K-9 units get involved in your misadventures! Thanks for sharing this entertaining escapade with us!

One of the qualities I’ve noticed here isn’t just an openness favoring long form notes, but an openness towards authenticity of the authors. A willingness to be vulnerable even. There’s just no judgment. Period.

For me it feels right when it’s small. Fewer people will see it, so it’s easier to be open. And at the same time it adds exclusivity to Nostr in the form of Nostr-only personal content. Once it gets big, I don’t think I’ll share as much, and I’ll already have shared a lot, so the baton passes.

That's quite honestly funny as hell. I don't know if it actually happened or not, but I think I heard something about a bank robber going to rob a bank, and it just happened to be the bank where the FBI got their paychecks on payday. oopse. As I said, I have no honest idea if it's actually real or not, but it would be funny either way.

🤣 Awesome story, I am glad @LynAlden inspire you to write long form stories. You are good at it. I laugh so hard, I could imagine everything happening like a movie. 🤣🤣🤣 This sounds a lot like what happens to good kids when they try to do something ilegal. 🤣🤣🤣

This is wild bc in high school my friends and I did shrooms once and were chased by cops for being out passed curfew and we hoped a random fence and they literally had a helicopter shining the light around us trying to find us 😂 no crime in the suburbs so they do this . Same thing, can’t tell ppl the story bc they won’t believe it like oh yeah bro you were just on drugs that didn’t happen

My friends tell a similar story about a police helicopter while on a beer run, but ours was at night. The runner was a fit guy and properly dressed. He got away on foot with the beer, but somehow he was spotted by a random patrol squad while exiting Vons. Very unlucky. But being fit, he was able to run across the street to an apartment complex and hide. However, he dropped the beer in the middle of an open air courtyard. By this point, the cops must have radioed to a local helicopter already in air. With the police helicopter circling above, they fixed the helicopter's spotlight on the 2 cases in the middle of courtyard. My friend was hiding in a planter as the police unit chased him through the complex. He had a decision to make: risk going for the beer or not getting caught. He wisely chose the latter and we were able to safely pick him up a few blocks away. In the end, no beer, but a great story.