It happened to Tony Allen, of all people. A team first defensive-minded player on the basketball court, and the nicest guy ever off of it. He’s even brought his overwhelming enthusiasm and positive attitude to Twitter, and demonstrated his upbeat demeanor through use of at least six exclamation points per tweet. He’s the type of person who brightens everyone’s day just as soon as he walks into the room.
But, besides all that, somebody still tried to steal Christmas from him anyways. Totally bogus.
This from My Fox Memphis, who broke the bad news:
Tony Allen says that someone has stolen $20,000 worth of clothing out of a rental car that his mother was using.
His mother returned a rent-a-car to Enterprise at 7263 Winchester, and left the goods in the car. She later realized that she didn’t have the merchandise, called the rental car company and was told that nothing was found in the vehicle.
Among the items stolen were high dollar sweaters, shoes, and shirts meant for the NBA star as Christmas gifts.
Allen took to twitter saying, “I hate thieves.”
Who doesn’t hate thieves, especially this time of year. Sorry that had to happen to your mom too, Tony. If I’m ever thinking about renting a car down by Winchester Avenue in Memphis, I’ll be sure to keep on driving until I find a Hertz or an Avis or something.
Luckily for Allen he’s pretty rich, but still, here’s hoping those presents end up surfacing sometime before the holidays. This is no way to be merry and festive.
