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The Best American Crime Writing 2006The cops come and charge Jack with assault; according to a police report, a security-camera tape backs it all up. Jack, meanwhile, is still driving the Navigator.A couple of weeks after the Billy's incident, he leaves $100,000 in a bank bag in the Navigator in his driveway, and naturally, someone takes it. The cops are getting sick of telling Jack to put his money in the bank. They've been spending half their time either writing him up or hunting down his loot. Jack installs security cameras overlooking his front porch (bare but for brass planters full of cigarette butts) and over the driveway and garage (silver Rolls, an Escalade, a muscle car missing a wheel or two). So Jack's starting to become everybody's favorite joke, but while they're laughing they're also crying, because it seems unfair that God or whoever had handed a life-altering sum of money to a guy who not only already had plenty but who leaves it lying around like trash. Eight days after the $100,000 goes missing, the state police report finding Jack slumped over the wheel on the side of I-64, not far from the Pink Pony ...» |
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