Suspicious Male

Asking Riverdale Residents

Unusual Questions

-headline from local newspaper 

The two-column story at the top of the page

says last week, in Riverdale, 

on a night when it rained,

residents complained a man came to their door

asking strange questions and making odd claims.

Two deputies came to the scene right away.

Evenin’, they said, they asked him his name 

and they looked at each other 

when he told them “Tre Price”;

the ID he showed them said “Charles Vincent White.”

Oops, my bad, dawg!

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