Propaganda's assistant stalkers Cress, Caitlin, Bast and Ben seemed awfully keen to go on a stakeout when they heard that Propaganda's editor was going on one. Everyone got real excited till they asked what a stakeout was, and when they found out that it was like in movies where cops spy on crim's houses in cars, except that we didn't have a car, they suggested stealing their parent's one. Good on them. They are well on their way to becoming juvenile delinquents.
Tuscany Place is the creepiest street in New Zealand.It is always deserted. Old people live there. And the houses are ugly. It's a no-exit street. It's dead. So it seemed like the perfect location for The Stakeout. And Propaganda had a plan. We were going to find out if it was actually dead.
We walked around for a bit. It wasn't a proper stakeout cuz we didn't have a car to hide in, but we spied on the 2 real people we found in Tuscany Place. They were a old lady and a guy waxing his car. Street totally dead.
Apparently there are more stone people in Tuscany place than real people. There are 7 stone statues of people, and 2 real people and a person watching tv. Obviously Tuscany Place was some strange kind of vortex thing that tranfigured its residents into stone statues.
The assistant stalkers were getting bored. Caitlin and Cress said it was boring. The Editor (me) informed them that it was The Editor's stakeout and that they didn't have to stick around if they didn't want to. Never again is Propaganda hiring Cress Wilson or Caitlin Lester as assistant stalkers. They are the worst assistant stalkers ever. Ever. They cannot understand that to be good stalkers, the people you are stalking have to not know you are there. Running around and yelling stuff like 'there's a person in there with the tv on!' in a deserted street is not being inconspicuous. Inconspicuous is what we wanna be.
Bast and Ben blocked up a drain with dirt and leaves. At least they were pretty good stalkers. Propaganda made a tally of dead houses and live houses eventually, so that it looked like we had some results : 16 dead houses and 3 live ones. I guess 80% of the street got abducded by aliens and the other 20% were the ones in league with the aliens.
As usual when they are in a 3 metre radius of each other, Bast and Cress started to hit each other. At that precise moment 2 cars with old people in them returned to their houses which happened to be right by Cress and Bast having the fight. It was most likely the most exciting thing that had ever happened in Tuscany place, so the old people stared and stared and looked very disapproving. We decided to go home very quickly so we didn't get into trouble. Our stakeout was a flop. Totally. |
