redthroatedloon

True. A couple of years ago, my mother was in Penn Station on her way home from Manhattan, and she saw a bag sitting in the middle of the main lobby of the LIRR area. She watched it for a while, and nobody seemed to be claiming it, so when she saw a police officer she went and told him. She said that he asked her where she saw it, and suddenly about 10 officers appeared and approached the area. The bag was gone, of course, and my mother started to apologize, but the officer told her firmly that she had done exactly the right thing. The thing that most astounded her, she said, was how suddenly all those officers showed up in response.