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I took my kids to her house yesterday after school, and noticed a couple of doors inside were opened that were usually closed. One led to the garage. I called her, and she said she hadn't left them open. It seemed so odd that I did a quick search of the house, but nothing important was missing, so I figured the cats had pried the doors open somehow--they've done stranger things. A little later my neighbors got home, and I learned that their house had odd stuff happening, too. Someone had taken a Coke from their fridge, drank half of it, and left the can on the counter. They had also used the bathroom (I'm not sure how they knew this), and used several Q-Tips, leaving them on the counter rather than throwing them in the trash (I'm not making this up, quit laughing!).
Further searching showed that they had rifled through my wife's night stands and jewelry boxes, without taking anything. They left money lying around (not much), no jewelry was missing (none of her jewelry is expensive), a video camera was laying on a counter. My neighbor is a nurse and has a lot of drugs in a cabinet. Good drugs, too--Ambien and stuff. They pried open the cabinet, and didn't take any drugs. They did take two IPods from my neighbor, and some money from their kids' piggy bank.
Even stranger was how they got in. My neighbors' backyard gate was left open, so they either went in or out of that, and climbed in through a rear window in their yard. They came in through a rear window in my wife's house--they left it open, and knocked some stuff over getting in, so it was obvious--even though both back doors were unlocked. One door was about a foot from the window they climbed through. But we can't tell how they got in the back yard--both of our gates are unopenable, and we have two dogs that would have charged through the gates, and raised a ruckus (which is why she's lax in her door-locking efforts).
So apparently the robbers were the Apple Dumpling Gang.
Yeah, I know, it's more serious than that, and we are very concerned about future possibilities and all that, but it's still hard not find it funny. They just hung out at the neighbors, drinking cokes and cleaning their ears (Unless there is something involving Q-Tips I don't know about). Maybe they were rushed at our house because of the (I'm assuming) barking dogs. They took the time to search for open windows (rather than just breaking them) while dogs nipped and barked at their heels, but didn't try the doors. They had to have climbed over our fence and battled our wussy dogs (Now I really miss our chow dog who died recently!)--neither being easy tasks--and then didn't take anything at all.
Probably kids or one of the homeless folk who hang out nearby. But I can't help picturing Don Knotts. :rofl:
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