I had something rather shocking happen to me this morning. I'm very angry about it, and I feel, for lack of a better term, violated. So you know up front, this is not a joke, reverse post, or anything like that. Although, I have to admit, it's a good opportunity for somebody to reverse post me.

My 5-year-old daughter attends an elementary school in Orem. She is in the choir, which meets prior to school. I dropped her off this morning, as I did last week (this is the second week the choir has been meeting). To drop her off, I pulled into the U-shaped driveway that is ONLY a parent pull-through/drop off area. I watched her safely get into the school, then pulled out of the parking lot. At the stop light at the intersection heading out of the area where the school is, I waited behind a pickup truck until the light turned red, then made a left turn following the truck, and headed into work. Ok, that is my account of what happened.

Somewhere between 8:30 and 9:00 I got a call from my wife. Two Orem Police detectives had stopped by my house looking for me. They wanted to talk to me about about a report they had from some who had given them my license plate number. So, I called the Detective.

It turns out the woman "witness" is the mother of another child attending the choir practice. She reported that she saw me parked the wrong way across some parking stalls, that she made eye-contact with me because she was suspicious of me, and when she did, I "peeled out" of the parking lot. She then followed me to the intersection where I ran the red light to get away from her. She had my license plate number, an accurate description of my car, and when the detective showed her my driver's license photo, she said "yes, that's the guy."

So, obviously I told the detective she had the story completely wrong. I got the feeling he didn't believe me, but sided with the mother. Frankly, I don't blame him--the woman has no history of false reports, and what happened the little girl in SLC yesterday SHOULD have everybody on edge.

Here's the thing: she must have seen me there, because I WAS there. She got my license plate number accurately. The scary part for me is that there are 4 critical parts of her story that are COMPLETELY wrong, at least in regards to me: 1) I didn't park across stalls, I was in the parent pull-through as I should have been, 2) I didn't notice or make eye contact with anybody--she must have been there, but I wasn't paying attention to anything other than my daughter getting safely into the school, 3) I didn't "peel out" of the parking lot, or even leave quickly. My car doesn't even HAVE the ability to peel out, 4) I didn't run the red light. I couldn't have even come CLOSE to that, because there was a vehicle in front of me, and we turned left immediately on the green because there was no one coming the other direction.

So, I have somebody who fingered me and filed a completely false police report about me. There's nothing I can do other than deny it. No charges were filed, because even if I had admitted to everything, there was no law broken (other than running the red light).

The question is, why did this woman lie about me? I thought about this, thinking at first maybe there was some weirdo there, and somehow she switched the license numbers. But that makes no sense. How could she get the completely wrong vehicle, since there weren't many (if any) other vehicles there? So, she must be lying. But what would her motivation be? She's freaked over what happened to the girl in SLC, so she made some stuff up to make it more convincing? She's a completely delusional nutbag? She's mad at me for some bizarre reason, so she made it up to "get at me"?

I don't know. I'm pretty ticked, and it is all just surreal at this point.

If any of you happened to be taking children to choir this morning in north Orem, boardmail me and I can give you the details I left out. On the one hand, I'd like to find out who she is and see why she lied, but on the other hand, I don't want to look like I'm "out to get her".

What would you guys do?