Have you seen a bright yellow 30 ton machine come through here?

Digging today, as we actually do from time to time, we noticed a cop car stopped at a break in the treeline at the edge of the field. Odd. Then we noticed the cop making his way though the gap towards us. A couple seconds later a second member of Dayton's finest stepped out of the other gap in the tree line, effectively cutting off any easy route of escape, those dastardly do-gooders!

After the requisite tough-guy questioning "who did you ask to dig out here" (as if there were some great plot involving the three of us to secretly dig a series of very large very shallow holes on the sly) and getting confirmation that Cemex knew we were there we learned the story: they were looking for witnesses to the crime of the century.

Overnight someone stole one of Cemex's front end loaders, demolished a 60x60ft building and then took off. Unfortunately we were not at the field overnight, so didn't see this crime (nor, for that matter could we have seen it in any matter because the Cemex facilities are somewhere way off through the forest and I've never seen any of their operation until today). Equally unfortunately I was having a very difficult time keeping a straight face because while this may have been thus far the crime of the century...it's also pretty amusing. It appears that they found the front end loader, because a couple hours later one cut through the field and hightailed it off along the access road.

In a not-as-amusing note, the one cop (the younger one) spent the entire "interview" (if you will) with his hand resting on his pistol. Two things struck me about this: first of all really? Even after we've moved past "we weren't here at 2am" and into "what do you find out here?" conversation that is pretty inevitable he kept...what? Trying to subtly indicate that he had the power? Odd. But equally dismaying was that as he approached the possible evil doers his hand was on his pistol, and not his taser or mace.

Ben and I have a theory that there's no way this is an inside job, nono, it had to have been the work of the marijuana cigarette smokers in Dayton (the police claim that they've pretty much dealt with the coke and heroin problem, so the recent uptick in murders must be the result of marijuana).

(vroom vroom! Outta my way I'm committing the crime of the century!)