Friday, May 1, 2009

The Middle Of The Night

It was the middle of the night and suddenly I remembered I left the damn dog outside. When I got outside on the back porch I heard barking in the distance. I didn't see my dog in the back yard anywhere. Then after a few more moments I noticed a strange smell that I recognized. It smelt a lot like marijuana. I can still hear the dog barking as I poked my head up over the fence. I can see black and gray smoke a few houses down, and I jumped over the neighbors fence and ran around out front. Sure enough it was my dog barking. I called my dog to me as I called 911. Police and fire fighters came within 5 minutes. Half hour later the fire was under control and I asked the officer what started the fire and he replied. "Your neighbors marijuana green house caught on fire when the cat knocked over the propane heater." I asked, well how do you know there was a cat in there?. He replied "we found the poor little sucker fried to a crisp up against the wall." I went back home in shock, and I made sure I had nothing running that night, but mine and my dogs heart.

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