Enter Collin. Another fool, angry, stubborn, and loud. His clothes clash as much as his personality does with others. This man has an undeserved sense of self satisfaction. He's tough, loud, and bad at making friends. All of his traits are completely intentional. He likes the attention and knows that people will talk about him when he leaves a room if he puts on a show while he's there. It's not about being liked for him, it's about being known.
What Collin doesn't know is that being known by so many people can put you in a very difficult position. If all of the conditions are right, if someone had a particularly bad day, if just enough people agree with each other, if the price is right, all the parts are set, the pieces are in play, the milk's in the fridge, the shoes are untied, the cameras are off, and the oven is on, then there is a chance that being too well known will come back to bite you.
People have forgotten about Collin's past. They don't remember the hard life he had after his mother was struck by a car and his father was shot dead a few years after in another accident. He had to grow up feeling alone in his cousin's home. During that time his favorite uncle also passed away and his older cousin's children would cry over their grandfather's passing all night. He felt like they were too young to ever know the man and that he didn't get enough attention for his own pain. All he really needed was for someone to talk or listen to him. All he really wanted was a little attention.
He's about to get his wish but in a bad way. A crime took place and the police are about to question the witnesses. The witnesses themselves aren't feeling confident enough to recall exactly what happened. From their point of view, an angry, loud, and frantic person entered their home town bank and robbed it at gunpoint. Before the masked, wild robber left, they encountered some resistance and shot the security guard on the way out. No one saw where the robber went when they exited the bank, they were too frightened.
There is one person that comes to mind when they recall the event. One person sticks in their minds that could behave in the same way and might just be angry and loud enough to rob a bank and shoot a guard. Without even talking it over with each other, every witness to the crime names Collin as the perpetrator. Even the officers taking statements start to imagine Collin being the one to cause all of this trouble. They finish their investigation at the bank and head off to arrest Collin.
Fast forwarding a little bit with a short summary of what you would otherwise miss. Collin was arrested and went peacefully and confused. His attitude completely changed from that day and he calmed down quite a bit. He sat in jail for a few months while the case was being put together. No one bailed him out or came to visit. Everyone became sure that he was the one and hid the money but wasn't talking. His lawyer told him that they couldn't win with all of the witnesses placing him at the scene. He was doomed to get the death penalty for the guard's death. His only way out is to take a plea and reveal where the money is. But, Collin was not the robber. He didn't know where the money was and couldn't do a thing to save his life.
At the trial, he left left his life in the hands of the jury.
Story by: James D. Gray
2/13/18
What Collin doesn't know is that being known by so many people can put you in a very difficult position. If all of the conditions are right, if someone had a particularly bad day, if just enough people agree with each other, if the price is right, all the parts are set, the pieces are in play, the milk's in the fridge, the shoes are untied, the cameras are off, and the oven is on, then there is a chance that being too well known will come back to bite you.
People have forgotten about Collin's past. They don't remember the hard life he had after his mother was struck by a car and his father was shot dead a few years after in another accident. He had to grow up feeling alone in his cousin's home. During that time his favorite uncle also passed away and his older cousin's children would cry over their grandfather's passing all night. He felt like they were too young to ever know the man and that he didn't get enough attention for his own pain. All he really needed was for someone to talk or listen to him. All he really wanted was a little attention.
He's about to get his wish but in a bad way. A crime took place and the police are about to question the witnesses. The witnesses themselves aren't feeling confident enough to recall exactly what happened. From their point of view, an angry, loud, and frantic person entered their home town bank and robbed it at gunpoint. Before the masked, wild robber left, they encountered some resistance and shot the security guard on the way out. No one saw where the robber went when they exited the bank, they were too frightened.
There is one person that comes to mind when they recall the event. One person sticks in their minds that could behave in the same way and might just be angry and loud enough to rob a bank and shoot a guard. Without even talking it over with each other, every witness to the crime names Collin as the perpetrator. Even the officers taking statements start to imagine Collin being the one to cause all of this trouble. They finish their investigation at the bank and head off to arrest Collin.
Fast forwarding a little bit with a short summary of what you would otherwise miss. Collin was arrested and went peacefully and confused. His attitude completely changed from that day and he calmed down quite a bit. He sat in jail for a few months while the case was being put together. No one bailed him out or came to visit. Everyone became sure that he was the one and hid the money but wasn't talking. His lawyer told him that they couldn't win with all of the witnesses placing him at the scene. He was doomed to get the death penalty for the guard's death. His only way out is to take a plea and reveal where the money is. But, Collin was not the robber. He didn't know where the money was and couldn't do a thing to save his life.
At the trial, he left left his life in the hands of the jury.
Story by: James D. Gray
2/13/18
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