“Excuse me, sir. New Orleans Police we need to talk to you.” I had just placed the bag in the back seat and still on the sidewalk, I turned around and closed the door and took off my shades as I faced them. I could not pick either out of them out of a line up because I just remember their shoes. I heard a New York detective could tell your whole life story by the shoes you had on your feet. Worn out, too cheap to buy a nice pair, middle of the road, about to retire that didn’t have a chance in hell of catching me in a footrace. One was trying to circle around me while reaching for his cuffs and in a moment now seared in stone in my mind, I jumped like a Standing Broad Jump, probably leaping ten or twelve feet out of their grasp, and sprinted like a Gazelle and was to the end of the street and around the corner onto Royal Street, right under the Original Royal Street Pharmacy sign, before they realized what happened. They gave it a valiant effort but I wasnt going to jail that morning because I had something in my pocket I could not throw away or get caught with. As soon as I made the entire length of the block a pedestrian stepped out of the Verde Mart, and turned right into me crossing Governor Nichols with two cops maybe 50 feet behind me, hollering, Stop him, Stop him. Actually I dont remember if they were hollering that, but I am pretty sure, because the guy squared up in front of me like he was thinking about blocking me or grabbing me. I sped up a little faster like I was going to knock him on his ass and he stepped out of the way never slowing me down. I had a real nice suit on with a pair of expensive New Balance running shoes and could run for miles. I was fixing to drive to Mobile or Jackson, Mississippi on another one man crime wave which is why I didn’t have dress shoes on, and besides, you never know when you will have to leave a couple of fat cops in the dust. The Fingerprint Thief by Mark Anthony Given The New York Times The New Yorker Esquire MAXIM Magazine Vanity Fair Los Angeles Times One Man, One Case, One Real Life Heist By Mark Anthony Given Los Angeles Times Books BBC World News NOLA Gambit Weekly Helena Independent Record Helena Vigilante University of Montana MFA Creative Writing The Kelly File Sun Herald The Sun Las Vegas Sun WDSU News New York Daily News New York Magazine The New York Review of Books reallifeheist/2012/10/the-dope-feign-shuffle-by-mark-anthony.html#!/2012/10/the-dope-feign-shuffle-by-mark-anthony.html
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