[Town Hall] The eminent philosopher Lamont Cranston used those words to open each episode of The Shadow, a radio drama that ran on CBS from 1937 to 1954. Cranston—played on network radio by actor Orson Welles—would also ask the rhetorical question: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!!"
My 24-year-old son also knows. He is only a day or so from the one-month anniversary of his new pickup being vandalized in a Dallas apartment complex by a miscreant who rendered it undriveable as part of a nationwide explosion of crime which—surprise—is heading your way soon.
On March 7th my son bought a new Toyota Tundra and, as you might expect, was thrilled with his sleek transportation and headed into Dallas to show it to his friends. When he returned to the parking garage in a buddy’s apartment, the vehicle was making strange noises and the Check Engine Soon light came on.
The tow truck driver who was called to return it to the car dealer where it was purchased took a look under it, and immediately diagnosed the problem: the Tundra’s catalytic converters—both of them—had been literally sawed off while the vehicle was parked in the apartment complex.
My son filed a crime report with the Dallas Police Department, suspecting it would go unnoticed in a major city that regularly deals with more than its share of challenges (including President Biden’s idiotic decision to transport over 2,000 illegals aged 14-17 from the U.S. border with Mexico in order to house them at the Kay Bailey Hutchison convention center in downtown Dallas.) |