This item showed up on the sheriff’s log sheet from Sunday, and although it was an interesting story, it didn’t make it in the paper because nobody at the station could confirm that it actually happened anything like the way it was reported.
Still, it is a good story, and I wanted to share it with you, dear readers, in some form, because I love a good narrative.
A man calls his wife on Sunday evening and tells her that he was minding his own business, eating lunch and smoking a cigarette in his car somewhere in Barstow when a mysterious assailant tied him up and put him in the trunk of his own car.
The driver says he blacked out and woke up somewhere out in the desert, in the trunk of his car, looking up at an unknown person wearing black gloves, who apologized before shutting the door on him.
He says that he somehow managed to get his phone out of his pocket and dial the wife’s number with his tongue. Having managed this tricky feat, he then freed his hands and escaped by pulling the emergency cord inside of the trunk.
According to the account as reported in the sheriff’s logs, the mysterious assailant left the car keys in the ignition, enabling the victim to drive himself away from the scene. Although the supposed motive for the abduction was unclear, the man said his attacker stole eight cigarettes.
