With the New Year turnin’ round, you don’t really expect to see a crime fightin’ Hammerhaid out in full force.
It all began with the H-man trying to do a good deed and watch over one of the young ‘un’s household after Christmas.
So be it, that the young folks have enough cable access to keep Hammerhaid pushing buttons hour after hour. Yup, they’ve got channels the H-man has never even heard of, but that doesn’t enter into this tale.
Betty Lou had already drifted off in the rec room located over the garage. What would you expect. No woman can stand, much less watch, the endless shuffle between channels.
Naturally, that worked out perfectly for Hammerhead who was content to switch back and forth between a UFO marathon on one channel and the Russian side of World War II on another.
In fact, he was even dozing between commercial breaks when suddenly a unfamiliar roaring came from downstairs at the front of the house.
After a few seconds, both of them came to the conclusion that it was the garage door opening about a day early. The kids weren’t due back to the following afternoon.
Betty Lou was scurrying, but Hammerhaid beat her downstairs and headed outside to the garage ... for no apparent reason.
The garage door was shutting down by the time he got outside. There were no kids to be found, just Hammerhaid’s car and Betty Lou’s caddy.
As usual, H-man was a little confused, but it didn’t take long for his crime fighting techique to kick in. Well, actually, it took the garage door opening a second time. He stepped out quickly enough to see a suspicious car zipping around the corner at a high rate of speed.
Then it hit him.
Hammerhaid had maybe foiled a crime.
Shazzam!
He was still pondering the situation when Murfreesboro’s finest rolled up in a patrol car. (It seemed that Betty Lou had reached the crime issue long before her hubby and called her son-in-law and the police.)
The officer found no evidence of a break-in, but cautioned them against leaving the garage door unlocked. He suspected that the would-be thieves had a device that would open secured doors by using “cracking” software.
The best way of defeating them is by locking the garage door, which was what Hammerhaid did.
Naturally, when the Internet savvy kids got back home, the search was immediately underway to make the place even more secure.
T-t-t-that’s r-r-r-r-r-right.
Even if the thief had gotten in, he would have been in rough shape with burglar alarms and two big, tough dogs.
That’s why Hammerhaid was there ... to watch out for and feed those dogs. |
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