Psychic Burglar Predicts Own Arrest
(Crime • Texas)
They say Guadalupe Cantu has a gift – a sixth sense that can foretell trouble before it drops out of the sky and grabs you by the arm.
Unfortunately, he also entirely lacks the ability to practice self-restraint, or so it appears.
Police say the 37-year-old Rosenberg man broke into the local Travis Elementary School without an appointment, at about 11 p.m. Sunday. It was clear that the school had been burglarized, clear that two radios were missing and, after peeking at security camera tape, clear that Cantu had been roaming the halls that night.
The Rosenberg Police Department informs us that Cantu was so well known to officers on the scene, they were able to recognize him in the video and even recalled his current address off the tops of their heads.
They rushed over to Cantu’s Sixth Street home “where he was found sitting on the porch,” the department said in a statement. “Once he saw the officers, he ran into the home and was followed by police.”
The cops surrounded the place, then searched the residence and found Cantu in a closet. “I knew ya’ll were coming,” he said, and surely the hairs on their arms must have stood at attention even as he proceeded to confess his misdeeds.
Yet the police, who recovered the wayward radios, must also have wondered: if this guy knew we were coming, why did he go through with the burglary in the first place? Or at least, why didn’t he go have a late breakfast at the Waffle House and avoid the bust?
It’s like that old joke where you dial up the town’s Psychic Healer (and in Rosenberg that would be on the south side of U.S. 90A near its intersection with State Route 36). When she answers, you say “Why’d you let the phone ring?”
Get it?
→ B.Dunn, Sep 22, 2009, 07 15 am
