What Did He Have to Gain?

A man with a shotgun robbed three teens sitting in an Uptown park last night. "Details" can be found here.

Does that not strike anyone else as strange? First off, you have a man with a shotgun strolling around a park in Uptown and no one is freaking out? Uptown is not a particularly sketchy place, and I know people can get pretty nosy there. And yet, no reports of the man until after he gets in and makes off with a bunch of kids' valuables. And he gets away afterward? Sounds suspicious. Like vampire mind control suspicious.

And he's robbing teens. They don't have a lot of money. I mean, sure they have spending cash and o bills, but they aren't exactly loaded. Walking around with a shotgun in a nice neighborhood, and he targets three kids? Surely there are wealthier people he could have gone after. And he takes their phones, too. Granted, three good smart phones will net you pretty good bucks, but you have to sell them and scrub them so it doesn't get tracked back to you. Seems a bit sophisticated for the sort of person who walks around nice neighborhoods with a shotgun.

No, my guess is those kids saw something and recorded it. You know teens these days. Always taking selfies and streaming videos to YouTube and stuff. Three teens gathered together, one of them had a camera on, guaranteed. He took the evidence and swiped the cash as well to make it look like a robbery.

Also, the news on this is really vague, like the cops have nothing. No good description of the guy. Didn't even name the park.

My guess is there was a vampire the teens caught feeding. Oh, sure, no one in the area thought anything about some suave guy spending a little time with a lovely young woman in a park. No cops called beforehand. The kids, though, in the same park, just so happen to record the feeding. So the vampire, not knowing really how smart phones work because he's two hundred years old or whatever, decides it's best to just take the phones and worry about finding out how to destroy what's on them later. Then he uses his vampiric mesmerism to convince the kids they didn't see a feeding, they didn't see a vampire. They just saw some normal dude with a shotgun. That's why no one else witnessed Shotgun Man coming and going.

And for those wondering why the vampire didn't just kill them too, because then he would have four bodies to carry away instead of just the one.

What are your thoughts? Post in the comments!

Stay Strange!
-Steve