Today's Treat

Hope to be back Monday


“You know this is probably going to get the reporter a Pulitzer don’t you? Have you picked out a reporter?”
“Not really,” said Davy, “I was thinking of something else. If we talk to a reporter, he or she is going to know who we are, do we want that?”
“No.”
“If you will remember in the Shawshank Redemption, after Andy DeFrane escaped, he sent the warden’s records to the newspaper and he let them take it from there,” said Davy with a sheepish grin.
“My Baptist Amigo, I loved that movie and I love your idea. We send the disk and the trash bag to the TV station and let them take it from there. It is nothing short of brilliant!”
Before dawn the next morning Father Danny heard the door to his room open and saw the light come on. “I know who it is and if you’re not ready to meet your–“
”Shut up and look.” Danny felt something land on his chest. He opened his eye, it was a newspaper. The headline read “THEFT AND EXTORTION EXPOSED IN EAST SIDE”.
“I thought you were going to send it to the TV station.”
“I did, it’s been on the news all night.”
“Why didn’t you wake me up?”
“Because you get so bitchy, now read it.”
Evidence of large-scale extortion has surfaced on the east side of our city. Numerous senior citizens have been victimized by gang members who regularly stole their Social Security checks. In an all night roundup, members of a gang known as the “Aces”...
“I didn’t know they called themselves the Aces.”
“Neither did I, read on.”
  ... have been placed under arrest and now face Federal indictment for numerous offenses including theft of federal funds, money laundering and racketeering. The case has been placed into the hands of the United States Attorney General.
Evidence leading to the arrests was turned over to Ray Potter of television station WTPG who claims to have no knowledge of it’s source. Inside a bag of evidence given to Potter was a complete list of the gang members, their bank accounts and other information. Judge Preston Ward refused bail and an early conviction is expected.
“You know this is unbelievable.”
“Oh yes, I doubt we’ll ever top this one.”
“But you know something,” said Danny, “there was something just as rewarding that day you brought that family back together.”
“The Hanks?”
“Yea.”
“I wonder how they’re doing.”
“You’ll know Sunday.”
“Sunday?”
“I haven’t told you, but they’ve been to church every Sunday since you talked to them and last Sunday they asked me if there was something they could give you to show their thanks, love and appreciation. I couldn’t think of a thing, then it occurred to me, something you would like is for them to come to your church. They’ll be there this Sunday morning.”
“That is nice.”
“Yes, it’s nice, but it worries me.”
“Why would it worry you?”
“Because you’re a better preacher than me.”
“Ah, maybe so, but you have a thousand years of tradition to fall back on. I only have a couple of hundred. I need theatrics more than you do.”
Danny patted Davy on the back and said, “That, my friend, is probably true too.”