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Neighborhood Watch
14 years ago
Well hi there, boys and girls, how are you? I narrowly avoided robbery! ^_^ Apparently, according to this cop that rang on the doorbell, a break-in was in progress on the main road leading to my neighborhood, and she asked me if I've seen anything suspicious lately. Y'know, like people posing as solicitors or door to door salesidiots, things like that just to get into your house. Well, it happened at that house on the corner...which turned out to be the county sheriff's house. Yeah, we're dealing with some Darwin Award level stupidity here. The dumb fucker apparently thought it would be a novel idea to try looting the residence of a law enforcement official and ended up being trapped between the wife and about 8 or 9 cop cars in the driveway, including one on lookout in case there's a chase scene. How did this affect me?
Well frankly, I didn't give a shit at the time because I wanted to get back to my writing. Y'know, the only thing I seem to be able to do in the way of art? I was doing that, but then Mom called and she was going batshit, getting me out of the house and locking it down, putting the alarm on and getting my ass out of dodge for an hour. And really, since I didn't see this guy on the streets of my neighborhood or anything suspicious in the neighborhood yet, I really didn't care. I was even more cool about it when Mom pointed out in the first place that the guy that was broken into was the sheriff's house. And when we got back, Mom did a full sweep of the neighborhood and then a full sweep of the house before she declared that we were safe. I swear that poor woman has paranoia.
So yeah. It was a magical hour I've had being pulled away from my laptop. So how are you doing?
Well frankly, I didn't give a shit at the time because I wanted to get back to my writing. Y'know, the only thing I seem to be able to do in the way of art? I was doing that, but then Mom called and she was going batshit, getting me out of the house and locking it down, putting the alarm on and getting my ass out of dodge for an hour. And really, since I didn't see this guy on the streets of my neighborhood or anything suspicious in the neighborhood yet, I really didn't care. I was even more cool about it when Mom pointed out in the first place that the guy that was broken into was the sheriff's house. And when we got back, Mom did a full sweep of the neighborhood and then a full sweep of the house before she declared that we were safe. I swear that poor woman has paranoia.
So yeah. It was a magical hour I've had being pulled away from my laptop. So how are you doing?
Personally i dont blame her. my mom probably would of done the same thing.
The term Thick as Thieves comes to mind.
Why would anyone want to try and rob a cops' house? I mean, seriously. Even the dids around here ain't that stupid and they're the type to rob you of your heating oil in broad daylight. o.O
But at least you're in a neighbourhood. I'm in the back-end of nowhere and my nearest neighbour is a twenty minute or so walk on the farm behind me. We get scoped out all the time. Last year, our neighbour got robbed big style. He had two JCB low loaders and a tractor go missing at about 3am and no one noticed, purely because we're all so used to hearing tractors and lorries and such rattling around at all hours.
We got scoped out by a dude a few weeks ago. He pulled up at the side of the road and was peeking at our house from around the bushes. Luckily the weather was warm enough for us to let the dog mooch about that night, so she went mental as soon as she saw him and scared him. :3
And if anyone does get in the house to rob us, they ain't getting out again in one piece, because if the dog don't have 'em, one us will. It's about the only proper entertainment we get around here. :D
If your mum freaked out that badly in a built up area, just imagine how she'd react to living in the countryside, 10+ miles away from the nearest police station. Constant, inescapable paranoia. xD;