Theft By Accident?

Last night the family gathered at Bryan and Robin's house. We had a barbeque, visited, and then later we walked to the high school to watch the fireworks show. When we first got to the school, we came upon a man selling glow sticks. Since we had 9 kids with us, my Dad and cousin Shawn decided to buy some. They asked the man how much they cost and he said $3.00 each. Well we know very well that you can buy those glowsticks from the dollar store, so my Dad and Shawn began bargaining with the guy to lower the price. While this was going on, we all noticed that the man was obviously very tweaked out on something because he was very nervous and figity. They finally talked the guy into selling us 8 large glowsticks for $10.00.

So Shawn handed the guy a $10.00 bill and for some reason, the guy handed Shawn 2 $5.00 bills back. I told you, he was tweakin... And as soon as he did that, the guy grabbed the remaining glowsticks up off the ground, and walked away very quickly, for fear that Dad and Shawn would talk him out of more. When he walked away, Dad looked down and noticed that the man had forgotten 2 unlit glowsticks on the ground... 2 more for free! So we continued on our way. During the firework show, Shawn noticed that he had aquired a backpack, and he thought it was the beer backpack, however it felt empty so he thought someone had drank the last beer and handed off the backpack. After the show, he began to ask around to see which of his family members had handed him the "dummy bag"... Everyone said it wasn't theirs, so we decided to feel what was inside. When we grabbed at the bag, it almost felt like dynamite! Okay now we had to open it!!! Inside we found many tubes of unopened glow sticks, and finally we had realized what Shawn had done!

When they had finished bargaining with the glowstick man, and he had run off, he had forgotten his backpack. Shawn saw it sitting there and thought it was the beer bag, so not thinking, he picked it up. We were a little worried that there might be drugs inside, so we didn't fully inspect it until we arrived back at Bryan and Robins house. Inside we found about 12-16 tubes of glowsticks with 15 glowsticks in each tube. However, we had already opened one for the kids. But we now had enough that every kid got their own 15 pack. Luckily there were no drugs in the bag, just the glowsticks and the connectors to hook them together. And just think, we got every single glowstick, absolutely free! This is a story we will tell for many years.