Old Mans Journey

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On the force for fifteen years. Patrolling the streets of Seattle in his Crown Vick Connor Young still not getting paid enough for his duty. Many of his friends/partners on the police force agree with him: Cameron Chase, David Speck, John McCrane, and some other officers. Connor is always waited for his shift to end so he can go home and sleep for a very long time just like a bear in hibernation. On sundays he would turn on the T.V to watch football and watch his favorite teams: Seahawks, Packers, and Bills. Connor is fit, tall, good looking, and lives with his wife and kids Tom and Jerry. On a casual day, Connor is patrolling the streets when he hears a bank robbery in progress over the radio. He responds over the radio call and says ” I’m in route, be there in five”. Once he arrived at the bank robbery he counted only three threats. He got into his stance behind the door of his car aiming at the bank. Nearly all of King County’s police department was at the call. Connor headed to the …show more content…
He sets it all of it on the ground and counts it. When he finished he tells his squad members in excitement “th...th...there’s 4.2 million!” They don’t know what to do so they hide the money in the back of Connor’s Crown Vick. They all meet up near an abandoned power plant. The squad had different ideas on what to do with the money and what they should do after they do something with the money. They all agreed on splitting it evenly and tell no one. Connor, Cameron, David , and John all got the same amount, $1,050,000 is what they were all given. John then blurts out “ why can’t we do what the bank robbers did? If they escaped so easily we can too!” All of the guys thought and thought but they had to make a final decision by tomorrow. When the next day came, there was a final decision on what they were going to choose to do. The final decision was that they were going to plan a heist and have the best getaway in

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