"Hey, bub, wanna buy your own snowmachine?"

Okay, so maybe that's not how it went exactly, but I really did have to wonder how the conversation went when I read the Daily News this morning and reached the small article on page A-4, where the Alaska Digest section reported on a Sterling lad that allegedly tried to sell a man's stolen snow machine back to the owner.

The blurb was not exactly detailed, at least not detailed enough for me, so I went looking for more information. I found the report of the theft buried in the Trooper Dispatches for March 22, 2009.

According to the report, the 2003 Polaris Pro-X 700, with an estimated value of around $4,000, was hotwired sometime during the night of March 17 or early morning of the 18th while it was in the owner's yard at his residence near Sterling.

Additional digging through the dispatches uncovered some details of the arrest that the Daily News had failed to note. Such as the detail that the kid who was arrested on Monday under charges that he tried to sell the snow machine, valued at $4,000, back to the owner was asking for $100.

No, that's not missing a zero, not unless the Trooper's lost one too. The kid was asking the owner for a hundred bucks. ::shaking head::