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So a few weeks ago my DH tells me about one of our neighbors (the one with the dogs that never ever shut up) has had a bunch of lawn equipment stolen out of his shed. First of all, his shed is an eyesore, completely against the home owners rules, and brings down my property values because of how it looks. In fact, his entire back yard is about as redneck as it gets. But my point is that the shed is SO huge that anyone could see it, identify it, and steal crap out of it. It doesn’t even have a DOOR on the front.

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So this guy blames the neighbor across the street. Apparently this neighbor had been coming over and ‘borrowing’ his lawn mower without asking and even took it to moms’ house without permission. So when the equipment was stolen, he finger pointed that guy.

Then a guy on the same street had a ton of work related equipment stolen out of his garage. He leaves his garage door cracked slightly for his cats to go in and out (my pet peeve, cats get killed when they roam around) and someone lifted up the garage and stole his stuff.

Then on the same street, over Christmas, one of the families went on vacation and came home to their house having been burglarized. Someone broke in and stole their bedspreads, toaster, pictures off the wall, vases, everything. Who the heck steals a bedspread, right? Gross.

Now its obvious the thief lives in the neighborhood, because who would come to the same street over and over. Then the neighbor with the lawn equipment sees over the fence of alleged thief and recognizes it as his. For whatever reason, he had the serial number written down from his lawn equipment (very smart). He called the police and the police raided this house this weekend (entire neighborhoods enjoyment) and found  all the neighborhood stuff.

The best part? The alleged thief was using the one neighbors bedspread and toaster and had hung up the pictures in his house. HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. Who does that?

Now the guy whose home was burglarized while he was out of town, had happened to video tape his house before he left. His daughter lives out of town and they always bring video tapes of the house, etc so in the wildest twist, he had recent video tape of all the stuff IN HIS HOUSE and was able to prove that that stuff belonged to him.

The alleged thief across the street fled when he showed up and the cops were there and they didn’t chase him, but just put out a warrant for his arrest. He had a company truck in the driveway so they knew he would back. I guess they did get him eventually and he has already posted bail and him and his wife are walking around like nothing ever happened.

I dont have a house alarm and I dont want to pay $39 a month for the next 3 years, but its this kind of stuff that really scares me. I told DH that him and Charlotte need to stay away from that street (its just behind us) because I dont want the guy who is clearly going to jail in a few short months for theft, breaking out a gun.

The sad part, is that we don’t live in a crappy neighborhood. Sure, its Alabama, there are a lot of……..taxidermists and big trucks and camo, but the people are nice overall. Its just disheartening to see a neighborhood person ‘hitting’ the houses.

~Trisha

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