Bank robber at the Rotzoll house?

Okay....no bank robber was actually in our house, but we had a very interesting afternoon yesterday and I thought you guys might in joy the story.

Anyway here goes....Around 2:30 yesterday afternoon I was checking the local paper internet site for the news and I noticed that there was a bank robbery in North Liberty. I thought it was funny b/c the suspect was a white male, 5'10", and was wearing a blue plaid shirt and brown shoes. Bob totally fit the discription b/c he had on his blue plaid but no brown shoes. At the time I didn't realize that we were going to be in the middle of all the action.

Then around 3:15 Bob comes charging in my office saying that the sheriff was on the phone and that local police dog followed the robber's scent and it lead to our front door! The police had our house surrounded and they needed us to come home right away so they could search our house. (One way to get out of work early). So Bob and I practically run to our car and head home. We get there and the whole street is lined with police cars and unmarked cars and there are police literally walking around our house. In addition to the police cars, two local news stations are there with cameras! So Bob opens the garage door using the key pad thing and I am kind of just standing there and the policeman says, "You may want to step aside" and I look down and he has his weapon drawn! So of course I quickly go over to the empty lot next door. They went through our entire house and found nothing, praise the Lord....but needless to say it was quite exciting.

So we watched the 5:00 news and it was the lead story. They showed the bank and a security picture of the guy and then they were like, "The dogs traced him to this house"...and there was a picture of our house on tv. (Luckily I trimmed the bushes a couple of weeks ago so it was looking pretty good.)

You know how I like to tell stories and make people laugh...this is going to be retold a lot of times!