An Old Lady With A Glass Eye

This is a story I heard on my car radio while I was waiting for my wife to go to the bathroom, I will try and describe it as best as I can, I remember the basics, I will tell it in my own words. Truth is far stranger than fiction. (And much more humorous) –Red Burtt
Oregon:
Molly Crawford’s house and yard were littered with old items, junk, boxes, broken chairs and the like. Molly is 83 years of age, she has a Glass Eye, is almost totally Deaf and partially Blind in her “Good Eye”, she also has bad knees and walks with a cane. She lives alone; her husband was run over and killed by a car after falling out of his own vehicle after he had parked it two years earlier, their dog was also killed in this accident by another car when it attempted to follow it’s master.
The neighbors of Molly Crawford called the authorities complaining about the condition of Molly’s front yard and the image it was giving the neighborhood. When city workers arrived with a court order to clean out Molly’s front yard she became very upset and agitated.
She explained to them that she only had one eye and that she was legally blind in her good eye, she said the only thing in the yard she was concerned about was a little “Red Wagon” that had been in the family for over ninety years, she asked them if they would put it on her front porch, “she had flowers planted in it” she told them.
When they had finished loading the truck they asked her to sign a paper, she had trouble hearing them and kept screaming, “Where is my God Damn wagon”, the city worker shouted as loud as he could that they had not seen a little red wagon. Neighbors hearing all the noise began to gather in front of Molly’s house. Molly became very upset and staggered with her cane over to the city truck where she tried to climb in and “feel” for her wagon.
She had one leg on the rear step of the truck and she was hanging onto to the side with her free arm and swinging her cane at the city worker with the other. Molly was clearly getting out of control. The crowd was now cheering and calling both Molly and the city workers filthy names. The city workers now decided that Molly was too much for them to handle. They called the Police.

Now, enter, The Local Police Dept, The Men In Blue:
The Police arrived and told Molly to get her leg off the city truck and go back into her house. The Police didn’t know Molly couldn’t hear them and Molly kept saying “I want my Red Wagon”, the police also didn’t know that Molly had a Glass Eye. One young officer tried to take Molly by the arm, she swung her cane at him, the officer stepped back and “Pepper Sprayed Molly”, some in the crowd cheered, Molly screamed but would not let go of the truck, the Police Officer then gave her a quick Electric Shock with a small Faser Gun, Molly screamed again then she shouted out as loud as she could “I want my wagon”. The other officer stepped in and grabbed Molly by the back of her blouse ripping it off her back causing her to fall to the ground.
It was now that one of the officers slapped Molly on the side of her head causing her Glass Eye to fall out. Molly now tried to kick out at the officer, the police officer in turn kicked Molly breaking a rib. Molly was now crying and gasping for breath she was still swinging her cane and screaming for her “Red Wagon”, the crowd was going wild and several dogs were barking. Some in the crowd were shouting “kill her, kill the bitch”. Molly was now lying on the ground with her long brown stockings bunched up around her ankles, her dress was pulled up so that her bloomers and varicose veins were showing, her blouse was torn off, and her glass eye was somewhere out in the street.
A police sergeant arrived on the scene to see his two officers sweating and out of breath and a 83-year-old women laying in the street crying with no shirt on and her dress rolled up around her chest, she was gasping, drooling and missing one eye. The crowd was now in a frenzy some told the reporters that it was about time somebody did something about all the junk in that yard. One man that had a small child with him shouted out as loudly as he could, “they should have shot the old bitch”.
After Molly was taken away in the Ambulance and the crowd had dispersed, an elderly man was found dead in the street, it was determined that he had choked to death on his dentures when they became dislodged while he was screaming at Molly and the police.
Molly is now suing the City and the Police Dept for Two Million Dollars.
She said they all claimed that there was “No Red Wagon” she insists there was, and says she misses it terribly.
Both Police Officers were suspended for thirty days without pay. The young officer that kicked Molly said his wife has “left him”, he also said, “I was only doing my job, she (Molly) could have killed me with that cane”.
They never found Molly’s glass eye.

WAIT UNTIL THE SUNSHINES NELLIE AND THE CLOUDS GO DRIFTING BY