“It just occurred to me that the man was up to no good and he was using his family as a cover. Good parents don’t keep little kids up that late.”
OMG - I think you’re right!! The guy was having an affair with a nurse at the hospital. So he took his child out late to a place KNOWN to have crazy bums all over. Figured the child would be fussy, disturb one of the bums trying to sleep in the doorway, and the bum would try to stab the child. Instead, the man was waiting for it and stepped in front of the blade, so that he would need to go to the hospital. And smart enough to bring his wife along as a witness.
Now at the hospital, with his lovely mistress (the nurse), the doctors were able to stitch him up. Suspiciously, the following day his monitors all alarm - with his special nurse on duty. The doctor’s check for a pulse and find none. The nurse wheel’s him down to the morgue.
But at the back entrance she tears away the fake plastic skin around the “deceased’s” neck that concealed his pulse, and she takes him to a secret location where she can take care of him as he mends. (Probably found a bum that looked like her lover and put the bum on the gurney Once folks are in a hospital gown and pale blue they all look about the same).
Interestingly, the man had left a million-dollar life insurance policy as a donation to the “Ventura County Nurses Aid Foundation.” He was the FIRST donor to this charity.
That was a marvellous, imaginative piece of noise suppression. Thank you!
Back to the thread. May God bless this poor man and his bereaved family.
You win.
Oh, I knew all that. Can’t pull one over on me. No other explanation!