Youth Group Delinquents
From the "You Can't Make This Stuff Up" files:
Some kids from our church's youth group came in after school to help move stuff out of a storage room and across the street to another location. Some of the things that they were moving included some old road signs that have been around for years. They've been used as summer camp paraphernalia, office decorations, etc., and we've had them since most of our youth group were in diapers. I'm not sure we even know where they originally came from.
So, the kids were moving these things across the street when a cop came down the road. Now, obviously, road signs are government property and it's against the law to possess them. And clearly in hindsight it would have been prudent to put the signs in garbage bags or something before moving them across the street. I mean, our church is in the thick of downtown and cops come down the street all the time. But it was a comical situation nonetheless. Half a dozen of our kids take time out of their day to come help clean up, and they get stopped by the police.
Our business administrator is on vacation this week, so this kind of thing currently falls at the door of our music minister who, in addition to massive preparations for Easter Sunday worship, has also had to deal with the start of a huge construction project the past few days. Several of us in the office were gathered around the security monitors watching the goings-on, and the cop eventually let the kids go. But they'll have to spend the next week or so being called "troublemakers", "lawbreakers", "criminals", etc. by anyone in the church that's heard the story.
It's one for the memory files, at any rate.
Some kids from our church's youth group came in after school to help move stuff out of a storage room and across the street to another location. Some of the things that they were moving included some old road signs that have been around for years. They've been used as summer camp paraphernalia, office decorations, etc., and we've had them since most of our youth group were in diapers. I'm not sure we even know where they originally came from.
So, the kids were moving these things across the street when a cop came down the road. Now, obviously, road signs are government property and it's against the law to possess them. And clearly in hindsight it would have been prudent to put the signs in garbage bags or something before moving them across the street. I mean, our church is in the thick of downtown and cops come down the street all the time. But it was a comical situation nonetheless. Half a dozen of our kids take time out of their day to come help clean up, and they get stopped by the police.
Our business administrator is on vacation this week, so this kind of thing currently falls at the door of our music minister who, in addition to massive preparations for Easter Sunday worship, has also had to deal with the start of a huge construction project the past few days. Several of us in the office were gathered around the security monitors watching the goings-on, and the cop eventually let the kids go. But they'll have to spend the next week or so being called "troublemakers", "lawbreakers", "criminals", etc. by anyone in the church that's heard the story.
It's one for the memory files, at any rate.