Columbo was in a rush one day, for he had seminar prep to be getting on with and the torts stuff was reeeeally hard 
So columbo grabbed his laptop between his teeth and ran down the road to his friend Jades house. Sadly on the way he tripped over his tail and dropped his laptop.
As Columbo stared sadly at the shattered remains of his Toshiba Latima 41E his arch nemisis the super observant community support officer drove past in a Renault Megane Scenic 1.2 tdi pointing and laughing at our canine companion.
"woof!" Columbo barked, as he thought to himself 'can it be?!'
Indeed it was, the community support officer had returned from his Eastenders themed bar in Mallorca for reasons that shall, no doubt, be explained in a later installment of COLUMBO THE DOG