I says, "so, the kind of shopping your mate was doing", I says, "was that he needed to pay a visit to the post office which got robbed", I said, asking Jim, "was it"...
Jim says, "that's not the point, Mike", he said, "I had nothing to do with where he intended to do his shopping", Jim says," I wasn't to know my mate was intending to rob a post office", he says, "if he did", said Jim, "it had nothing at all to do with me", he says...
"Jim", I says, "you were his accomplice"...
"No I wasn't", says Jim, "I didn't do nothing wrong, I only gave a mate of mine a lift into town", he says...
"Jim", says I, "just tell me this", I said, "now be truthful here because it's important that you tell me the truth if you want to have any chance of persuading me that you didn't do anything wrong", I said, "absolutely nothing wrong in this matter that you have got yourself embroiled in", I says, "now, tell me this, please", says I, "when armed police chased you in your car", I said, "and stopped you", said I, "and dragged you from the car", I says, "a part from finding stolen property from the post office that got robbed", I said, "did police also retrieve a firearm from inside your vehicle", I asks Jim, and he says in an instant, "Yes", he says, "they did"...
"I don't suppose it was a gun belonging to you Jim", I asked him, "was it"...
"No, no, no, Mike", he says, "I never saw the gun at all until my mate came running back to the car from shopping", he said, "he came running back to the car with a carrier bag full of what I believed to be his shopping", Jim said, "he was out of breath", says he, "he opened the passenger door of my car", says he, "jumps in, throws his shopping in the passenger foot well", he says, "that is when I saw the shotgun", he said, "my mate jumps into my car with his shopping and a sawn off shotgun", he says, "he is out of breath", he says, "shotgun in his lap", he says, "and he is suddenly yelling for me to drive off quickly", said Jim, "Go, go, go, says my mate, get going sharpish", he said, "so I just starts driving off, quickly", he says, "not knowing why my mate had been running, why he had been out of breath, why he was in possession of a sawn off shotgun", he said, "we were speeding away along the busy high street", he says, "and no sooner do we set off than unmarked police cars and police units with sirens sounding, and blue lights flashing were coming after us", he said...
"Jim", I says, "did it not occur to you that the police who were pursuing you in your car wanted you to stop your car", I says...
