"How could you lose Roberta at poker?", Olivia screamed.
"I don't know. I had a full house, Jacks over Queens, and shouldn't
have lost.", Darren explained.
"I mean; how could you bet Roberta?"
"Well, at first I lost all my money, then you Olivia, but then
I played 'double or nothing'....., but I lost again, so I lost Roberta
instead."
Olivia became so furious that she couldn't speak. Not mainly because
Darren had bet her, but because the value of Roberta was rated twice
as high as the value of herself. Roberta stayed relatively calm as she
said:
"No harm done. We can just turn my 'F', 'E' and
'O'-wheel
to minimum,
and my 'I'-wheel to maximum, and no one would like to keep me. I bet
that they will come and beg you to take me back within an hour."
\
After Jesper had allowed Roberta to turn her
wheels according to her suggestions, and sent her to
her new owner, he started to do something that
slightly reminded of thinking:
"Why is everything revolving around... Rodney today.
I used to be the leading character, but now I'm just
a appendage to Rodney. It's time for me to show that I'm
still important."
To fulfill his new ideas, he then walked out of the warehouse
to see what went on outside. After some wandering he met
a bunch of policemen. Jesper, more curious than ever before,
asked a, apparently doughnut loving, policeman:
"So, what is a fat cop like you doing on a sunny day like this?"
"You will probably not believe me impolite man, but we are
actually looking for a man eating dragon.", the policeman answered
as he started to figure out a way to end the conversation with
the annoying village idiot in front of him.
"Oh, you mean Rodney!", Jesper said proud over that he
remembered to use Darren alias.
"You know the name of the dragon?", the policeman asked
suspiciously.
The look on the policeman's face made Jesper realize that it
might have been an ever better idea if he instead of using Darren's
alias had
pretended that he didn't know the dragon at all, since he now might
be considered an accessory. So, to save the situation he said:
"No, 'Rodney' was just a name I made up for the dragon in the
warehouse."
"In the warehouse?", the policeman asked.
"Or what ever you should call it.", Jesper said as he walked away
to meet other interesting people.
The fat policeman turned to his colleague, who had been listening
to the the whole conversation, and said:
"What an idiot! I think he was as stupid as Richard."
"Yeah! But I guess that the bald moron would make a better policeman
than Richard is. By the way, why don't we inform Richard about what
the moron told us. He would probably believe every single
word and start to tail the moron.", the rather malicious colleague
suggested.
"Richard! Come here, we have a special assignment for you!"
After Jesper accidently had told a handful of people
various secret details about the killing of the policemen, he
suddenly decided to return to the warehouse. He hadn't
noticed that a policeman called Richard had been walking 5 meters
behind him for the last hour, taking notes of everything that Jesper
did. Richard had just written down 'The suspect scratched his butt
three times (Maybe a secret signal)' when he noticed the huge
warehouse in front of him. Richard's pulse increased by a factor
of 1.73, when he realized that the bald moron had spoken the truth.
Finally he had the chance to be a hero. No one would ever laugh at
him again if he caught a cop killing beast. To make extra sure that
the bald moron shouldn't notice him, he let the distance increase
to almost six meters. The bald moron then walked into the huge door.
Richard first reaction was to run back to get reinforcement, but after
he had ran for about 100 meters, he suddenly stopped to think.
It normally took him a very long time to convince the
others to follow him, and what if the people in the warehouse was
gone when they finally arrived? His colleagues would all laugh at him.
So, to avoid that, Richard walked back to the warehouse to see if
he could make
sure that no one would get out while he was gone. As he stood there
and tried to figure out a way to keep the 'warehouse people' in
the warehouse, a carpenter came walking. Richard signaled to him
to stop and said:
"I hereby confiscate your hammer, your four longest nails, and
your two strongest planks."
The carpenter at first protested and claimed that he needed his
hammer, but he finally, after Richard reminded him what had happened
to Rodney King, gave Richard the stuff he had claimed. Richard's
plan was then to nail down the door, using the stuff he just got.
However, before he had hammered down the first nail, everybody
inside the warehouse assumed that someone was violently knocking at
the door. Cal Apone opened the door and said:
"Okay! We can hear you."
It then, after Cal noticed that it was a policeman that had made the
noise, took insignificantly more than 14 seconds for Cal to
overpower the snooping cop, and to tie him to a chair inside the
warehouse. Cal then said:
"Does anybody know any effective methods to make a pig tell
us everything we like to know?"
"I might know a way, but it is rather cruel.", Roberta's new owner
responded.
"Let's hear it."
"We can let the skinny girl I won at the poker game talk to him.
If he isn't ready to
tell us everything within 5 minutes he is a very tough man."
\
However, Richard proved to be a tougher and more resisted man than
anyone had expected. But eventually, after listening for 7 minutes to
a monotone voice giving a detailed report of the art of darning stretch
tights, he couldn't stand it anymore. He screamed, with a voice of a
man on the edge to insanity:
"I can't stand it anymore!! Make her stop! I will tell you everything
you like to know!"
Roberta's new owner told Roberta to stop, but threatened Richard:
"If you lie to us, I'll let her talk to you about several bridge
anecdotes. She'll go on for hours, and that time I will not stop
her."
"I will not lie.", Richard said as beads of perspiring started to
appear in his forehead.
Richard then, sounding a bit proud, explained how he unlike his
stupid colleague, had realized that something strange went on in the
warehouse. He had understood that after his colleagues referred a
conversation to him, a conversation they had had with a strange man.
Richard explained how he had tailed the strange man all the way to
the warehouse. When Richard was done, Cal asked him:
"Who was the strange man you followed?"
"A bald man, kind of stupid looking. He looked a bit like myself, but
without hair of course."
"Oh! It's the new one. Where is he?", Cal said as he started to look
around. Then everybody else looked everywhere, but Jesper was
mysteriously missing.