Friday, June 10, 2005

6/10/05b

12:31 p.m. I walk into the building with my video camera. I am ready with my pretext. There is an internet company to the left and a construction company to the right. And right in front of me is a sign with 8 inch lettering proclaiming my Subject to be the reverend of the church. Fantastic. I take some film.

I follow the arrow to the sanctuary and find a gutted series of rooms. Insulation and ceiling tiles litter the biggest room. I walk through, figuring that at this point I'd tell them I have to use the bathroom. I am so trespassing. I take more film of the remodeling. I walk through a maze of hallways and classrooms and find a floorplan on the wall outlining the future placement of all the church offices. I take more film. Pastor Jackson, you are a naughty boy. Defrauding the insurance company isn't a very Christian thing to do.

There is nobody around. Maybe they're out to lunch. I decide to take off before I get caught and thrown in jail. I will run by the good pastor's house and see if I can secure some video.

As I'm on my way out, a woman walks in. I try to look confused. (Not hard.) She asks me if she can help me with something. I tell her I have to use the bathroom and she leads me through a side door into the main offices of the internet company. I mention the church and ask what it's like running a business next to them. She says they don't see the church people much. I ask her if she knows the pastor. She looks at me funny and says no. Okay. No more questions. She's getting suspicious. I get back into my car and spend the next 15 minutes writing down license plate numbers that I will run later.

I'm off to Pastor Jackson's house.

4 comments:

annie said...

sneaky, sneaky. i always enjoy infiltrating churches. can you tell us how this pastor is trying to defraud the insurance co?

PollyME said...

He's on 100% disability for a "nervous/mental condition".

Whatever that means. Eye tick? Guilty conscience?

annie said...

believes god wants others to give him money?

Anonymous said...

Preacher Man talkin' on the tv.
Puttin down the rock n roll.
Wants me to send a donation
'Cause he's worried 'bout my soul.
He said Jesus walked on the water,
And I know that it's true.
But sometimes I think that preacher man
Would like to do a little walkin', too.