627 city hunter
Member
My dog was growling outside the French doors which I was sitting by browsing this wonderful forum.
My mother took the dog for its last day's walk. She noticed a man pilfering through the trash at night. He drove a dented, white, boxy, old van. She was surprised by this and told me.
He doesn't live in our neighborhood. We live in a dead end, cul-du-sac street which is 9 houses from the Mississippi River's levee. It is a very wooded and quiet quiet neighborhood with a supermarket and strip mall across the state highway.
I turned on the security and yard lights. I went out of the house with the dog while checking our property and looking down the street with a flash light and a lit Marlboro. Of course, I was armed and holstered legally. He was gone.
This was a very peculiar situation. Can someone take things out of others trash without permission? We think he took a vacuum.
I am concerned we may be developing prowlers or burglars in the neighborhood.
I know some of you are going to say stay inside, but I wanted to check our property, and see, if the vehicle had left.
I did not plan on confronting him, but I did want him to notice that someone saw him taking trash besides my mother. My family knew I was outside checking the property. I had my cell phone in case I needed to call 911.
There have been strangers in our neighborhood at night walking down the street at night lately. Like I said, it a dead end, and they weren't entering anyone's home or leaving it seemed. Just seemingly, walking down a dead end aimlessly at night. My father is old and ill and my sister and mother similarly defenseless.
My mother took the dog for its last day's walk. She noticed a man pilfering through the trash at night. He drove a dented, white, boxy, old van. She was surprised by this and told me.
He doesn't live in our neighborhood. We live in a dead end, cul-du-sac street which is 9 houses from the Mississippi River's levee. It is a very wooded and quiet quiet neighborhood with a supermarket and strip mall across the state highway.
I turned on the security and yard lights. I went out of the house with the dog while checking our property and looking down the street with a flash light and a lit Marlboro. Of course, I was armed and holstered legally. He was gone.
This was a very peculiar situation. Can someone take things out of others trash without permission? We think he took a vacuum.
I am concerned we may be developing prowlers or burglars in the neighborhood.
I know some of you are going to say stay inside, but I wanted to check our property, and see, if the vehicle had left.
I did not plan on confronting him, but I did want him to notice that someone saw him taking trash besides my mother. My family knew I was outside checking the property. I had my cell phone in case I needed to call 911.
There have been strangers in our neighborhood at night walking down the street at night lately. Like I said, it a dead end, and they weren't entering anyone's home or leaving it seemed. Just seemingly, walking down a dead end aimlessly at night. My father is old and ill and my sister and mother similarly defenseless.
Last edited:
