Rent-a-cops

We were biking along the seawall and had stopped at Sunset beach on a bench to enjoy the view as we always do. A lady and man cop were walking by which is unusual. Doug joked with them and said 'what? didn't they even give you bikes to use to patrol?' and they smiled and said no.

Then the lady cop came back and said 'heh, have you seen a 12 yr old girl on a purple bike? She is lost and we are with her mom and dad. They're from out of town.' We said no, we hadn't but would keep an eye out. She said good and if we saw her, please call 911 cuz they were frantic with worry and we said yes, we could well imagine. We sat there and commented that we really hadn't seen many kids on bikes today just a few little ones but no 12 yr sized.

And then, about 5 mins later, Doug pokes me and says 'HEH' as a girl on a purple bike rode by. The 'HEH' startled her and I jumped up and said 'are you lost?' and she looked stunned and said 'I'm not sure'. I said 'are you from out of town?' and she said yes. I said 'how old are you?' and she said '12'. I said, well, the policeman are looking for you with your mom and dad and pointed down the seawall. She just started to shake, from relief I guess, and so Doug said to me to stay with her and he biked down to find the police.

While waiting, I asked her her name and told her mine and suggested she sit down as she must have been quite frightened. She said she was and said she had been on her bike and they had been walking/jogging. They told her that if they got separated, she was to just sit on a bench and wait for them. She said she'd been sitting and waiting on many benches and they never came. She was from Portland.

Soon Doug came back and said to her 'do you have an Obama Tshirt on?' which I thought was an odd ? but the girl unzipped her jacket and there it was! then police, on foot, came a few minutes later. The lady cop yelled 'what's your name?' and she answered 'Amelia' and she radioed that in. and also asked to see the Obama Tshirt. So then the cop whips out their little black book and takes our names, birthdates, address and phone number! Amelia said to me while we were waiting for Doug and the cops to come back, 'thank you SO MUCH' for stopping her.

Poor kid...dumb parents.