THE GOOD...My Intentions

I am a Virginia Beach local, lived here my entire life. A single parent raising three children by going to work everyday at a job I have had for six years. Prior to that I worked for St. Mary's Home for Disabled Children for approximately ten years. While at St. Mary's, I assisted with many fundraising events to help raise money for St. Mary's, a non-profit organization. These fundraisers included a 5K Run that was put on by the Norfolk Police Department. I was also responsible for a large fundraising event held at the beach, "Battle of the Bands", where we had sports items donated and auctioned off to raise money for the children of St. Mary's. During my last year with St. Mary's, I was a spokesperson for St. Mary's for the United Way giving tours and speeches to better community awareness and encourage others to donate to St. Mary's. So as you can see, it is not in me to steal from charities, any charity, as I have spent a large portion of my life helping to raise money for a wonderful non-profit organization. Up until now I have had a perfect record, never once have I ever been in any kind of trouble whatsoever with the law. Not to mention, I have family on the local police force, their names I withhold to save my family from any more unnecessary humiliation and embarrassment.

This is my story and it really does sound like something right out of a movie...

Recently, after what I perceived as doing a good thing, not only by ridding my house/garage of unnecessary items but helping out a local charity. Kind of like killing two birds with one stone or used clothing, whichever you prefer. Well as it appears, the local police feel differently. Spent over a week, here and there after work, rearranging children's bedrooms and stockpiling all unwanted items in the garage with plans to take to my local charity over the weekend. As the weekend approached, we organized the items to take, weeding out the trash and what not and on Sunday made two trips with the larger items and came home to load the rest. Took a break in between, because as most everyone local here knows, this was the weekend of the Neptune Festival and there was a band playing I had waited all weekend to see, with the intentions of stopping by on the way back to drop off the rest...