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<p>I guess I’m with Weskid, here; the only thing that I find surprising is the reaction to a fairly mundane street encounter. Main Street, Middletown is over a mile long, and it sounds like you happened upon the North End which is a two block stretch that has been the “poor” section of town for about as long as anyone can remember. If you’d walked down from the South end, you’d have gotten an entirely different picture.</p>
<p>But, what really gt me was the description of the Middletown cop watching “20-30 people who were loitering on the sidewalk”. I know the MPD pretty well; they don’t stand around watching people loiter. And, there’d be a lot more than one cop on the scene, if that’s what was going down. What’s far more likely, IMO, is Gibby and DS were witnessing a free car wash to benefit the Middletown High Swim Team:[middletowneye:</a> It’s all a wash](<a href=“http://middletowneyenews.blogspot.com/2009/08/its-all-wash.html]middletowneye:”>middletowneye: It's all a wash)</p>