Do you think it was right to call the police?

Question

One Christmas Day, after a large dinner, seven women folk decided to take a walk as the sun was setting over the very nice neighborhood in the countryside of the state.

Four of them walked quickly leaving three lagging far behind. The three that were lagging, Maggie, Jill and Brinny were talking intensely about social concerns when Jill noted a huge someone in a Gingerbread man costume standing at the end of a driveway of one of her neighbors who did not seem to be home.

Standing next to a flamingo mailbox, the Gingerbread man seemed to be just waiting there. The big cookie noticed the three women and began walking towards them on the opposite side of the street.

Brinny and Jill became fearful while Maggie remained unaware of the cookie’s presence, and she kept talking about her job. When she finally noticed the big cookie she said hi.

The cookie waved, but said nothing as it walked on by. Maggie turned to look at the cookie and saw it turning to look at them. She turned back, then turned again and saw it has also turned. A third time she turned and saw it too turned to look at them and then the gingerbread man ran to their side of the street, into someone else’s yard and behind that house.

Brinny was the first to notice the cookie running from behind one house to another. “That cookie looks like it is playing with itself,” she stated.

“I think it has a butcher’s knife.” Jill answered.

Maggie’s eye brows furrowed with doubt stating, “How can you confuse having his hand in his pants with a butcher’s knife?”

All three laughed, then suddenly the cookie ran at them jumping onto the road and running very fast in front of them and out of sight.

Dogs barked up ahead and the woman walking the dogs stated her dogs became very apprehensive when he approached.

Jill ran ahead to see where the cookie was going while she called the police on her cell phone.

Brinny ran to catch up to her, leaving Maggie alone on the road while she was calling her son to bring the car and come get them.

Soon Brinny and Jill came walking back, having lost the cookie and unaware the cookie was walking behind them. As they neared Maggie, she indicated it was behind them.

A silver car stopped by the cookie and the cookie leaned into the window, then the car turned onto the road where the house with the flamingo mailbox was.
The police drove by, passing that road where the gingerbread man was now talking again to the man in the silver car.

Maggie’s son arrived and the women jumped into the car and drove towards the police to tell them what they saw.

The officer stated this call will certainly top most other memorable calls. He did continue on to look for the cookie as another police car arrived in the area.

Do you think the Gingerbread man was acting strange and possibly up to something bad?
If so what do you think was happening or going to happen?

Answer 1

Yes, probably a good thing. It sounds that he was up to no good. He had either broken into a house, or maybe was getting ready to break into one. Or worse. It was best to stay on the safe side and let the police figure it out.

Answer 2

1) Maybe the Gingerbread man was looking for homes that no was was home and access was easy. Standing at end of driveway for car to pull into to load up.
2) The gingerbread man was trying to get attention so police cars in area will come to that neigborhood searching for the suspicious cookie while robberies take place in another neigborhood.
3) The nut was looking for someone to victimize.

Dogs are usually good at sensing something is unsafe, so I would go with this notion. Had it been an innocent thing, someone in the area would have known who the person in the costume was.

Answer 3

So far, I've got that the ginger bread man had been instructed to meet the guy in the silver car by a visible landmark (the flamingo mailbox), the guy was running late, and the ginger bread man ducked behind a house to relieve his bladder when the dogs chased him out. What's the rest of the gag? How do the four women who walked off fit into the story?

Answer 4

Did the police laugh at you or take the call seriously??? There's your answer.
It's better to call and have nothing come of it, than not to call and spend the rest of your life wishing you had.

Answer 5

Yeah it was a good idea to call the police. At the very least it is a funny story, and at the most, you saved someone's life.

Answer 6

Good grief! What did you put in the Egg Nog you are drinking!!??

Answer 7

You called for that?