Following the Ironman races in Panama City Beach, local police officers participated in a separate and little-known display of physical endurance and aptitude; but they managed to bring home the beef.
We’ll call it the “meat dash.”
Police were recently at a handicap, having to travel from their post to a local grocer on a shoplifting call. While en route, the officers were informed the protein-powered athlete had fled the store on foot with four packages of rib-eye steaks stuffed in the front of his pants.
He’d already bested one of the grocery’s employees in the short dash and was on to the endurance round against police.
The officers caught up with the employee who’d made it to where the man pulled out the trouser steaks and left them on the ground. The man was nowhere to be found, though. But the police had a description and their radios.
The man was later caught up with in the woods. As it turned out, the race was close enough to end in a photo finish — a mug shot photo.