May 05 2008
What would you do?
Thursday night my son called from the dock where he was fishing and said he and his friends bike had just been stolen. I drove down and picked him up and we drove around the neighborhood to see if we could find the bike. One of neighbors said she saw two teenagers who have been known to cause trouble riding 2 bikes just a few minutes earlier. The boys live next door to each other in the neighborhood. I walked down and one of the boys mothers was walking next door to get her son. When I told her that someone saw her son and our neighbor with 2 bikes. She didn’t argue with me at all. In fact she knew her son was involved and dragged her son out of the house and said “I can’t believe you did it, give him his bike back.” She made him apologize and gave us both bikes back.
The other boy was not so remorseful. His parents weren’t there and his excuse was the bikes were just sitting there so I just took them. He never apologized and was extremely disrespectful. I didn’t know if I should call the police but waited until his mom got home. His mom was very nice and apologized to me. But even she was amazed that her son was not remorseful. Now this boy has been seen in the neighborhood with other teenagers messing with cars. He has messed with our home before. He egged our neighbors truck a few months ago. There are rumors he is dealing drugs. He is only 14.
There have been many thefts in cars and homes in our neighborhood. Now we don’t live in a bad neighborhood. It is a planned community with a swimming pool and tennis courts. There are very expensive homes on the river. But the crime here is going higher and higher. In fact the crime in our entire community is going out the roof. My wife was car jacked at the Wal-Mart last May.
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