Sunday was the most interesting days I have had in a long while. I joined the Knights of Columbus a few months ago. Its a pretty cool place with $1.50 16oz draft beers, two 9ft (and free) pool tables, keno, scratch tickets, and some pretty cool guys. Why not. right?
So there is this strange chain of command thing. You start off as a first degree and your not a full member until your third. I dont like to half arse things so did my thing to become a third. Yesterday was a unique day so I could bang out the second and third in one day.
One of the requirements is you have to go to church. So me and a bunch of buddies all joined at the same time so we did it all the same day. My buddy Joe is like the sponsor if you will of our “group” and had to do everything with us.
So there was like 7 of us so he somehow got a van from St Williams church. He met up with us at the nights at like quarter of nine in the van with my other buddy Jimmy the Greek.
The Greek and Joe both come out of the church van drinking beers. This didnt surprise me in the least because it typical of those two. So we all pile in the van thats peppered in empty bud lights and head to church. We go through the thing, eat our bread bam done.
So we leave and are heading down to the Knights. A cop we pass pulls out behind us and a little way down the road turns on his blue’s. The Greek and Joe are still drinking beers.
So now we are stuffing empty’s in every spot we can to hide the **** things. We get pulled over. The cop walks up to the greek asks for his licence and reg. It turns out the church van is not registered or insured. Then he starts busting the greeks balls because he smells booze on his breath. He radios in and throws the greeks last name. A minute later is comes back that he has a warrant out for him.
The cop gives him a field sobriety test and a Breathalyzer. He failed both with flying colors. Naturally the greek gets cuffed and stuffed in the cruiser.
Now the cop comes up to us tells us to get out of the van. THE FREAKING CHURCH VAN!!! and makes us lock it up. We cant take it anywhere because it was uninsure and not registered.
He said that there was no bail bondsman on sunday so we would have to give him $60 on the spot to get the greek out. We give him the loot, off they go and we had to walk 2 miles to the Knights.
A couple hours later the greek gets dropped off by his girlfriend at the knights with a nice shiny new court appearence on Monday.
So the day goes on we go through our degree things. and are now official members.
We are sitting in the bar after having a few frosty’s when my cell phone rings. I answer hello. The guy goes. “Mr. beston. This is Detective Donahue from the Tewksbury police department”
The cop that pinched the greek.
I was like what do you want?
He then tells me that the whole situation earlier was planned,
He didnt really arrest the greek.
The Beers were filled with water.
The empties were brought from the knights.
The St. Williams van is registered and Insured.
He then tells me that he is also a member of the Knights, and welcomes me aboard.
I swear you could have fried an egg on my face. I have never had such an elaborate scam pulled on me before. It was ridiculous. I cant believe they pulled it off. Joe and the greek just burst out laughing. The beers they were drinking were filled with water. the cop and them planned it like a month ago.
I have no idea how I am going to get them back but I have to do something.
And that was my sunday
