hit and run

Yesterday I was out and about doing errands. I was driving my roomate's car, with aforementioned roomate in the passenger seat.

Some kid (looked to be about 10 years old, but sometimes people look young and you can't tell) forgot to apply the break pedal and left an imprint of his number plate in the bumper.

As I was getting out of the car to ask him license and whatever other info, he swiftly gets out of there and zooms off into the distance.

My roomate whips out her cellphone and calls the cops, and tells them that, some kid, looking about ten years old, driving an orange honda elements (the boxy square suv looking thingy), with Rhode Island license plate NR 805, just hit us on the intersection of North Main Street and Branch Avenue, and he just drove up Cypress Avenue.

I'm sitting next to her in the car as she continues... "well, there is this kid, driving some car hitting people and I think it would be a good idea if you would send a dispatch about it, or possibly look up the plate and call the owners of the car, or perhaps it belongs to his parents"... I figured from this she got the "What do you want us to do about it?" response.

At some point she gets off the phone and explains to me that we have ten days to file a police report. At the time I was busy, so I respond "Can we file the report on Thursday?" (being the day I have enough time to do stuff) and there you are.

Today I get home, and my roomate tells me that just around the corner is a very similar looking orange honda elements, with a suspiciously similar license plate, and so she had called the cops again, and was eventually told they wouldn't do anything unless she filed a police report. She went to the local police substation, where they had no police reports to fill out, but was assured that one from the main station would be delivered to our doorstep. She tells me this was five or six hours ago (it's now ten pm my local time).

This was copied mostly verbatum from the lounge.