That's is one he!! of a story LOLserver, in fact an amazing story!!
Mine pales in comparison but never the less an unusual turn of events....
I was on my way to Bellerieve Country Club in west St. Louis county...8 month earlier I bought week long tickets to the 1st PGA Tour event in St. Louis in many many years....the LPGA used to play here annually within walking distance of my house.
I was going to watch the 1st day of practice rounds and when I got there and made the long walk to the entrance, people were walking out and away from the venue like zombies, some crying! Being oblivious to what just happened I thought "WTF" is that all about...my 2nd hint that something was amiss was there was nobody at the gate checking passes!
So I walk into the gift shop to grab some souveniers, go to the register and nobody will check me out(hint #3), they are all gathered around a small TV, walking over there to raise hell is when I found out what was going on!!!
I remember thinking "OMG, before this is over a million people could die somewhere"...
I came home, and sat in front of a TV for days stunned! They canceled the PGA tournament because half the players couldn't get there....about Thursday of that week I was going to the store, when I saw the merchandise in my car it dawned on me I had walked out of the gift shop with a Wind Jacket, Wind vest, Polo shirt, and baseball cap without paying for any of it...that's how screwed up everyone around here was, I stood with the gift shop workers, took a smoke with 2 of them, held that stuff in my hand for over an hour, and it still didn't register in my brain...
On that day the world as I knew it changed forever, and I became a thief...