Messed up job

It wasn’t the ideal way to end a week’s vacation, but for the Montgomery, Alabama, family who returned home to find their house ransacked, forcing the culprit into hard labour—or at least the moderate labour it takes to clean the mess made while robbing a place—provided some preliminary relief.

Tiffany McKinnon described her return home in heartbreaking detail: the house had been robbed of virtually all furniture and amenities, right down to her baby’s clothes. Her husband, Adrian, sent her to her sister’s home while he went through the mess. As he cleaned, a man came in the back door, Adrian’s stolen hat perched upon his thieving head. The man was surprised to see Adrian, and more surprised to see Adrian’s gun. Adrian ordered him to sit on the floor, pondered his next step, and then forced the man to clean the house at gunpoint. Then Adrian called the police.

When police arrived, Tajuan Bullock complained about being forced into servitude. The officer pointed out that anyone else would have “shot him dead.” “That shut him up,” recalls Tiffany.

Bullock has been charged with theft and burglary and is being held in lieu of $30,000 bail.

by Scott Saxon