Superman... in Zumbrota, MN?

It's a Bird...It's a Plane... 

It's Superman in Zumbrota!

Just like Clark Kent of Superman fame. Although there probably isn’t a phone booth for him to change into his flying outfit in all of Zumbrota, MN - there is an optometrist whose friends think he comes pretty close to the flying hero!

Dr. Kevin Kish opened his office early one morning and was surprised to see the cabinet doors were open.  Then a man came out of another room and threw a punch at him and ran out the front door with a bag of cash and stuff.

No time to change into his superman outfit - but Kish chased after the burglar!

  He explained, “There wasn’t a lot of speed here - we were two 60 year old guys!  Anyway I hollered at someone on the street to call 911 and I kept chasing him.”

The duo headed down Main Street.  

Kish continued, “He’d run a little and I’d run...  then he’d turn at me and I’d go back... he’d yell at me and I yelled back... in Norwegian!” (Ya Shure!)

Anyway, they got to the east side of town and the burglar fled into the woods where Kish lost him.

By this time law enforcement and a K9 unit had arrived and the suspect “got nailed in some tall grass.”

  And friends sent Kish a Superman shirt and shorts!

It’s stories like these that we get to hear at the TRIAD meetings - local citizens and law enforcement - on the second Wednesday of every month at the Shepherd’s Center. 

Look what was found along the road... 

Another man told a story about what he found when walking along a road near his farm near Rochester, MN.  (We’re keeping his name private at this point.)

It was just a piece of paper... a receipt from a tire company in Wanamingo.  When he got home he tossed it in the garage.

A few days later he was going down the road when he noticed something further in the woods - it looked like a money bag!   It had a lot of checks inside so he called the sheriff’s department.  A local bank had been robbed.  Two men had taken a bag with $4000 in cash.

The police had a picture of them on the surveillance tape from the bank but no names.  Then our man recalled the receipt he had picked up along the road.  Would that have any connection?  Well, the police checked it with the tire store’s surveillance tape and they had a perfect picture of the robbers along with their names on their purchase.

Just borrowing a car? 

 

Then Rod Johnson told this story.  His wife Bernie had called him at work and explained that someone had come and asked to borrow a chain because he was getting a car from their neighbor.  After she gave them the chain she called the neighbor and he said he hadn’t given them permission!  He proceeded to walk down to the men and asked what they were doing and then called the sheriff’s department.

The men were stuck and couldn’t leave!  Their story was that they were just pulling the car out to pull their pickup out.

No eye witnesses were available but Rod explained that the next day when the deputy was talking to another neighbor about this concern he was told that a member of their family had recorded the whole thing on video!  And that helped prove what the guys were really doing. 

Suspicious van... 

Another local citizen became suspicious of a van driving without lights after midnight.  Especially after it parked and some of the passengers got out and started walking around the dark neighborhood.  This area had been targeted for burglaries earlier that year. 

So Jay Sjoblom followed the suspects in his vehicle and kept up communication with police in order to keep them under surveillance until they could be apprehended.   

Looks to me like we have more “Clark Kent/Superman” heroes around here than we thought!