The policeman stared at the long haired, body pierced youth that opened the door. The rent in his jeans didn’t look designer in nature but he didn’t look ripped either. “We’ve got a warrant to search the premises.”
“Be my guest,” the youth said relieved that any drug taking was done at his girlfriends place down town and he didn’t steal so there wan’t any loot to be found. He settled back, relaxed in his chair watching them systematically pull everything from cupboards and drawers.
“Gotcha,” came the elated cry from one of the policeman, “You’ve ripped this CD illegally.”
In response to Zoe’s Six Sentence Story prompt
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About Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist
I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
Well played; that is I like your word play. This is rife with ripe rip.
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Yes you can have a ripper of a time with these.
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lol you had me going, typical cops they will find something if they want. Just finished my tiny plan!
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Exciting Hope you are going to share the process.
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wanting to but not sure how FB seems to be the rage but ….
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I can understand your reluctance with FB
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yes and doubt that my blog followers/readers would be so interested … just ordering my trailer so got to give it some serious thought
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perhaps another blog where the theme is going tiny.
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could be an idea as I’m already a minimalist, could post ideas for people wanting to down size … don’t worry wont expect you to follow 😉
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It would probably be the area I need help with.
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Piracy!! It’s not a victimless crime. Good six
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My ‘ole mum bought a pair of trousers recently then took them back to the shop complaining they had holes in them – much to the amusement of the assistant! Clearly, the cops were determined to find something to pin on him.Nice one.
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Very nicely done.
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If they’re looking hard enough they will always find something. At one point years ago many of us owned large collections of ripped CD’s. The ending to your story made me smile! 🙂
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Never relax until the search is over. Well penned, Irene.
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Your sins will find you out. Well told!
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Thank you.
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Ha ha ha, smug little criminal got caught after all. Very clever story.
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Thanks. Many don’t see it as stealing but the artists have to live on something.
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my ‘L’ actually was Out Loud at the ending.
compliments on a use of the prompt that I’ll bet none of us saw coming.
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Thanks Clark. I could hear that ‘L” from here.
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Good SSS. He was feeling pretty self assured until he wasn’t. He didn’t get off scot-free this time.
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Thanks Pat. He didn’t see it as stealing – which many people don’t.
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Well written. The twist towards the end was cool.
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