The idea of a worker showing up to a site and finding something unexpected is a common enough trope. Depending on the genre of a piece of entertainment, they might find the murder victim in a police procedural, become the victim of a monster in a horror film, or who knows what else.
And, to be fair, a lot of workers actually do find a lot of weird things.
However, a story out of Ohio caused me to raise an eyebrow or two, not just because of what they found, but because it wasn't the first time.
A maintenance worker investigating a water leak discovered three handguns and nearly 60 strips of prescription medication hidden above the ceiling of a Boardman business Thursday morning.
Police were called to the single-story, brick commercial building at 6900 Market St. The worker told officers he was checking for the source of a water leak when he noticed a ceiling tile that felt heavier than the others.
When he removed the tile, he found a brown and silver Ruger revolver, a black Glock 10mm handgun, and a pink Sig Sauer handgun. Police also recovered nearly 60 strips of buprenorphine and naloxone, a medication often sold under the brand name Suboxone, packaged in a clear bag.
This is the second time in just over a month that weapons have been discovered at the location. According to the police report, two firearms were recovered from the ceiling in a similar incident on Dec. 2.
This is also similar to an incident in Youngstown, Ohio, from September. That's less than 15 miles away, according to Google Maps.
To be fair, stashing guns and drugs above ceiling tiles seems like a fairly obvious solution to hiding stuff from the police while making it easily retrievable later on. That particular location appears to be a plus-sized consignment shop, which probably means there are dressing rooms that could be useful for stashing things so the police won't find them, yet still accessible down the road.
But twice in the same location?
Based on what I could tell, that's not a super high-crime area. It's got a moderate amount of it in the area, but it's also just a couple of blocks from a very high-crime part of the city, which could be linked to these discoveries.
That's just potential speculation on my part, based on what I can find on the internet, versus what someone who lives there might tell me.
Still, if I owned that store, I'd start checking ceiling tiles a lot more often and making it untenable to stash guns and drugs in my establishment. Especially as, should that happen enough, city leaders might decide your business license isn't worth renewing.
On the upside, if you ever need a gun in Boardman, Ohio, I think I know a place you've got a good chance of finding one, though I wouldn't want the police catching me with anything I might find there. I suspect none of it was legally obtained by those who stashed their stuff there.
Let's just call it a hunch.
Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment.
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