The Coconut Bunny Butt Caper by Livia J Washburn

Author:Livia J Washburn [Washburn, Livia J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fire Star Press
Published: 2020-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

A fire department ambulance showed up a short time later, along with the Sheriff’s Department cruiser, and a couple of EMTs checked out Buck Williams’ head injury.

“That cut on your head isn’t too bad, Mr. Williams,” one of them told him. “But we need to take you to the hospital anyway. Any time you’ve been hit in the head like that, you need to be checked out more thoroughly than we can do here.”

“Fine, but not yet,” Williams responded firmly. He had gotten his senses back after the wallop and now seemed to be more angry than injured, as far as Phyllis could tell. “Not until we figure out the polecat who’s responsible for what happened.”

As he regained his composure while sitting on the ranch house’s front porch and waiting for help to arrive, it hadn’t taken long for him to ask about the golden egg with the money in it. He’d been furious when Phyllis told him it was gone.

That was when the ambulance and the sheriff’s cruiser pulled up with their lights flashing, and while the EMTs were tending to Williams, Phyllis’s son Mike took her aside and said, “All right, Mom, tell me what happened here.”

“First of all, you need to make sure no one leaves. I can’t be certain no one slipped off between the time I called you and when you got here. I might have missed it if they did. I didn’t see anyone leaving, though. And the thief could have taken off before we realized that had happened, but I doubt that. It was all pretty quick.”

“You’re saying that whoever attacked Mr. Williams is probably still here.”

“I think so, yes.”

Mike spoke into the radio attached to his collar and got back a quick response that a unit would block the driveway leading from the ranch headquarters to the farm-to-market road half a mile away.

Once that was done, Phyllis filled him in on the afternoon’s events and then led him to the tent where the attack had taken place.

Sam was standing at the tent’s rear corner with his arms folded. “I’ve been guardin’ the scene,” he told Mike. “Nobody’s messed with anything. The ground’s just like it was, and that prize basket’s over there in the bushes where Phyllis found it.”

Mike took gloves from his pocket and started to pull them on so he could gather the evidence.

“You’re not callin’ out the crime scene fellas?” Sam asked.

“Assault and theft are serious crimes,” Mike said, “but they wouldn’t be considered major cases and the department has limited resources. We’ve all been trained to collect evidence and photograph and document a crime scene.”

“What happened is a major crime to Buck Williams,” Phyllis pointed out.

“And we’ll get to the bottom of it,” Mike promised.

He took pictures of the inside of the tent, the area behind it, and the prize basket that had been shoved up among the bushes.

“That’s the famous coconut bunny butt your mom made,” Sam pointed out.

“It’s not famous,” Phyllis said.

“With a name like that, it will be as soon as this story hits the news.

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