I found an old beat-up Mamiya RB67 camera at a garage sale in the Little Five Points neighborhood of Atlanta. Not sure if it even worked, I picked up a roll of 6x7 film and wandered back toward my girlfriend's house. There were some delinquent youth hanging out on her street when I turned the corner. It was a Wednesday morning, so these kids should definitely have been in school. I asked what they were up to, and one of them told me they had just been bailed out of juvenile detention by his grandparents. They had apparently been at Lenox Mall (an affluent shopping mall in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood) when they saw a rich lady getting into her BMW. They ran over to the car and pushed her down, grabbed the keys, and took her car for a joy ride. Like a scene out of 'Cops' they ended up in a high-speed chase through Atlanta, where the kid driving took a turn too fast and rolled the car into a ditch. They tried to run, but the cops caught them and beat them up. They spent the night in jail. I asked if I could take a picture with my new camera.

This was the first picture I took with the RB67. The camera was stolen out of my car two weeks later. I always wondered if these kids stole it.