Saved by a Clemson Tiger Paw!

Mar 25, 2008, 2:25 PM

I don't know why I didn't bother to tell this story when it happened 6 months ago, but for some reason I thought about it today and thought I'd share.

My wife usually leaves about ten minutes earlier than me for work each day. I remember this particular Monday morning I was running a little late and wasn't really in the mood to hear a joke when my wife walks back in the house as I'm getting out of the shower and says "Where's your car"? I told her to quit playing around, and she insisted she wasn't. So I walk out to the drive way in my towel and was rather shocked to find that my normal parking spot was now empty. I guess from the look of shock on my face she now thought I was playing a joke on her. It took us a few minutes of standing there in denial to realize my car had been stolen from our driveway.

We call the police, he comes out, files the report and leaves. I finish getting ready for work and have my wife take me to work and drop me off like I'm back in middle school or something. We live in Baton Rouge and I work at LSU, we live about 5 miles from campus (this will all be important in a minute). As the day goes on I have to call the insurance company, talk with the sherriff's department, talk with my bank (an old check book was in the car), and the list goes on. So out of the frustration of having to deal with that and the feeling of being violated I was rather pissed after sitting here thinking about it all day.

My wife came to pick me up from work and we start on our way home. She wanted to go one particular route, I insisted we go the other way because it was less traffic and this is the way I always go. We were no more than two miles from our house when I spot a tan trailblazer coming the opposite direction that looks familiar...hmm.. minus the Yakima bikerack on the top, but wait... that was a Clemson Tiger licence plate on the front.... they dont have those here!!!

Before I could even say anything my wife turns into Tony Stewart (or one of those guys), and flips a u turn in the middle of the road. I'm on the cell phone with the police giving them real time updates of where my car is. And after a couple minutes about six cop cars come out of nowhere to chase my car down.

So no more than 24 hours after my car was stolen I find it MYSELF among the thousands of other tan chevy trailblazers in Baton Rouge all thanks to a Clemson Tiger license plate.

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