Dang thieves!

[Wilson]

One little slip up - we apparently didn't lock the doors to the truck last night. These blasted thieves are just wandering around looking for an opportunity and the easy hit. And the mutts were worthless.

Could have been worse, but man that pisses me off. :mad:

[FamilyGal]

That sucks. What did they get away with? Anything of value? If your doors had been locked, they may have broken the window.

I just heard from dh that the .99 store on Sawdust was robbed last night. FIFTEEN MINUTES after my daughter and I were there. Creepy. I'm sure glad no one was hurt.

[natvtxn]

Wilson - Dd said she saw 4 or 5 boys walking through our neighborhood last night at 2:15. She said they were headed out of the subdivision, so they may have showed up at your place. I just told dh today that we need to be aware of the garage door being left open when we are not around.

[Wilson]

They may have done this. It was just an opportunity - I hate slipping up like that. They took dh's radar detector that he's had for 5 years. They can't use it as it was hard-wired into the thing and a new power cord for it will cost too much - so I'm sure it's in someone's garbage now.

We did call the police and made a report - I spoke with Officer Felix ummmm, starts with an M? Munto? Something like that. Ugh I have a terrible memory these days, sigh. But I told him how we've lived here for 5 years and have had everything from Beer to Bikes stolen and this is frustrating. I told him about my email list :D and how many thousands of dollars worth of bikes have been stolen and they just trash them and dump the bikes off Crownridge. What's funny is that we lived in Houston for 6 years and never had so much as a blade of grass stolen, but this area is supposed to be safer :confused:.

[Wilson]

And what are they doing walking around at 2:15a?!?!? Isn't there a curfew? This is ridiculous! Is this a normal thing for parents of teens (I'm ASSuming that's who she saw - teens?) to just allow them to wander the streets in the middle of the night? What do the parents THINK the kids are out there doing?!

[HereWeGo69]

you must have lead a very sheltered life, what makes you think the parents even know?

[Wilson]

So you're telling me it's reasonable to not know where your teens are at 2:15a? Is this what I'm supposed to expect? Then yeah, I guess I was sheltered, because that just didn't fly when I was a teen.

And I'm surprised that anyone would feel or think differently about this? IIRC, a parent is responsible for their children until they turn 18. So if a 17yo steals my stuff, then damn straight I'm going to hold you *and* the child responsible.

[natvtxn]

She thought they were about 15.

She ate at IHOP just before coming home. About 12:45 there was a group of kids about 16/17 year olds there. An officer (not sure of jurisdiction) made each of them call their parents to come get them. Even made them box up their food. One said he was spending the night with another one and could he just call them...nope, he had to call his own parents. Dd said they were not acting up at all. While I know it was past their curfew, I think a good warning would have been sufficient.

[Wilson]

There's no middle ground. Market Street won't allow the teens to just hang out there and the police run off the ones that are out late but not doing anything wrong, while 15yos are walking around VOAB breaking into cars and stealing bikes and things from garages all hours of the day and nights and the police aren't anywhere around.

And yes, I think there is a widespread problem (iow, not limited to TW) of parents just turning their kids loose and not handling their own problems.

[TripleA]

I am glad you still have your vehicle though! The other night DH left the garage door open. The door into the house was unlocked as well. He had gone outside for something and was going to go back out, so he didn't shut the garage door. He got distracted and never went back out, forgetting the garage door! There are tools, bikes, the kids power wheels cars, etc. in there, but nothing was touched. Not to mention they could have gotten in the house! We were lucky.

[FamilyGal]

I was coming home about 1:00 the other morning and there were about three teens (early teens from what it looked like) walked down our main street. Their parents probably don't have a clue they are out and about. I used to sneak out all of the time.

We have had a ladder stolen from the side of our house (I figure that was an adult though, what teen would want a ladder?) and my daughter's car was broken into three time in six months when we first moved here. We heard that the group that was causing all of the problems were arrested. Whether or not that is true, I don't know, but we have never had a problem since.

Each time my daughter's car was broken into she had left it unlocked. We found her textbooks a block over in the ditch and some neighbors found her DL and SS card in the ditch. (We were VERY thankful for that!)

[Wilson]

I do realize that a lot of my beliefs on this stem from my experiences within our neighborhood and dealing with some of my neighbors' kids. What I see is parents that know their kids are out causing trouble, but don't want to or don't know how to deal with them, so they keep letting them run loose, unsupervised. People like me get tired of "tattling", and the parents of the troublemakers just ASSume that means their kids aren't causing any trouble. I'm tired of parenting other people's kids and I shouldn't have to. And I totally think that those kinds of kids (where the parents stop parenting) are the kinds of kids that just graduate into bigger & better trouble.

[FamilyGal]

And I totally think that those kinds of kids (where the parents stop parenting) are the kinds of kids that just graduate into bigger & better trouble.

I couldn't agree more! It is still a toss up how kids will turn out. I have seen good parents raise crappy kids and crappy parents raise good kids. But, why up the odds of your kids turning out crappy by not parenting to the best of your ability?