Today was a bit different.  I woke up earlier than normal and got in to print off documents for the days tasks, was given a treatment with the Registered Massage Therapist (yay benefits) for an hour and had some laughs at break and some interesting lectures.  I took a route home that was a complete departure from the usual routine while stopping off at the mall in the process.  I met up with someone I had not seen in a year, a very attractive and insightful woman I used to work with at NCR and we talked and talked some more to the point where I ended up finding myself asking to walk her home from the station, way past my usual drop off point.

So a quick summary, for some odd reason after another I find myself at a different place at a different time in a setting far beyond the normal proceedings of the day.  Then as I was walking up Duke St. towards Frederick I see a car half way in the driveway of the restaurant at that intersection and find out another car had hit it.  On a whim I decide to take a photograph of the other car that had pulled over after the impact (pretty obvious there was a hit as the car in the driveway was missing a large chunk of the passenger-side quarter-panel) in case it might be handy.  It sure was because the car that impacted the car at the driveway took off, pretty much turning this into a hit and run.

I had the laptop handy and was able to pull up the make of the car, license plate number and confirm there was only one occupant in the now suspect vehicle by flipping the memory card into the slot of Deffy (short for Defiant, the nickname for my small but powerful lappie).  When the cops arrived they joined in with the other driver's appreciation for doing this and emailing the photo to each of them and I just told them it was just pixels and about an hour out of my life and that if I was in that situation I'd hope that someone would come forward for me. 

It may seem like a minor or worse inconvenience to take the time to report to police what you saw, but it makes a huge difference to those who have been wronged.