POLICE TO THE RESCUE

So, Virginia didn't want to call the police on Janine. She was afraid that she would show up at her door and give her a hard time or hurt her or something. Virginia is paranoid by nature as it is. She called Social Services, the Elderly Abuse Hotline, Lawyers that specialize in Elderly Law and security in her building. They all told her to call the police. Finally she decided to call the police. Because it was a non emergency, the police said that they would be there within a two hour time period. Well, they took five hours. Four phone calls later an officer showed up at the door. She had evidence accumulated and locked away in the desk. There were statements from the bank showing copies of seven forged checks, and there were bills with erroneous charges on them.

The police officer took a statement and collected all the evidince that he needed and told Virginia that he'd be out of town, but he would try to find someone to take over the case for him. Well, he was out of town for twelve days and no one wanted to take the case. It wasn't important enough. Virginia made me call every other day to see what progress they had made. While I was kindly and calmly trying to inquire about the investigation, she'd be yelling in the background, "This is ridiculous, the bank and I have done all the work for you, just go arrest her!" The officer that answered the phone would say that nothing will be done for the case until the officer who took the report gets back from vacation. She was furious and called back herself and asked the officer to put his boss on the phone, she was on the phone telling her whole life story and I just sat back and enjoyed the show. She ended up getting nowhere, they won't proceed with the case until the officer gets back from vacation. She threatened to call the Governor, and was told that the Governor won't do anything for the case until the officer gets back from vacation either, but to go ahead and call him if she'd like.

Yesterday I had to call again at Virginia's insistence, of course. This time the officer actually got on the phone. He said that he was out of town for twelve days, then had to go to a training course and then he was tied up with a big case. He assured me that he would work on nothing but Virginia's case for the second half of his day. He also mentioned that he had heard that Virginia called many times while he was away and I said yes she did. Everyone who knows Virginia knows that she is very persistent. He is coming to Virginia's Apartment tomorrow to interview me. I can assure you that tomorrow will be a very interesting day.