Local News Coverage

A couple of news items:

First of all, it has been an exciting day here. I was going to the mail room to pick up our mail when I spotted this big hole in the ceiling of our lobby with broken sheetrock hanging down. Turns out, someone was in the crawl space over the lobby, stepped in the wrong spot, and broke through the ceiling! Once of the ladies working in the office called the police and they came right over. The police, along with our maintenance crew and a couple of flashlights that I donated to the cause, spent an hour looking for the guy up there and couldn't find him. The police figured it was this shoplifter they were looking for that had just robbed the Bartel's (drug store). They were concerned that he had gotten away, so they reviewed our security footage. They saw the clip of him busting through the floor, and were able to confirm that he had pulled himself back up into the space while the office lady was calling the police. (There had been concern that he had gotten out while she went for the phone.) They also looked at the footage from the loading dock (the only way in), from the time the ceiling got busted and didn't see him leave that way. So, for a while they were SURE that he was still up there. Then, they looked a little farther back on the security footage and - what do you know - they didn't see him go either. What they did see was one of Bartel's security guards going in and coming out. (Presumably looking for the shoplifter.) The current theory is that it was the guard that busted through our ceiling.

The second bit of news is election coverage. I would just like to highlight the candidacy of Goodspaceguy Nelson. You can read more about his platform at http://colonizespace.blogspot.com/ I would highly recommend it. It is very... er... informative.

I'll keep you all posted if there are any updates!