Sometimes news stories make you beg for more. Sometimes they make you beg to figure out why the reporter didn't ask some majorly important, obvious questions.
In this case, our first one would be: how the hell does a kid rob his own house? Why didn't he just wait for everyone to definitely leave the house, open the front door so it looks like somebody came in, then takes everything out the back, load up a car, and drive it to the pawnshop?
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Here's the story, in order:
1) A 22-year-old and his 15-year-old friend (wha?) break into a house on Tuesday.
2) The 22-year-old's mom comes out, since it turns out to be her house, and says, "Like, what the hell are you doing, boy?"
3) The boys flee, but not before firing shots in the air to warn the multiple family members now entering the front of the house to see what's going on.
4) The family called the police, who dispatched a dog, which captured and bit the 15-year-old. The 22-year-old gave himself up without a fight some time later.
5) This was only the coda to their long rampage: the gunslingers are being questioned about a string of earlier robberies that took place earlier on Tuesday.
Much of this info was gleaned from the very thin Seattle Times story.
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