We have had NUMEROUS suspicious people drive up our private road and driveway. Sometimes it is just people who cannot think.
One young women drove up the road past the gate and posted signs, up the driveway, then behind the house to the barn. She had a dog in the back of the Jeep so I wonder if she was looking for a place to let the dog go for a run. She drove out before I could ask her what she was doing.
Another lady drove in with two kids and was obviously lost.
What is amazing to me about these two is that they were OBVIOUSLY in the wrong place. And they knew it. But they kept on driving. What was dangerous for them is that once they are past the gate there is no way out by car. If someone was a bad guy behind them they can easily be blocked in with no way out. The lady with the kids realized this when I drove up the driveway and she had no way out.
These two lady's as well as the semi driver were lost. No harm, no foul.
But we have had people who were obviously up to no good on our place at the house. People who had been casing the place or ripping people of selling junk. We have had people dump trash on our place over the years. Not to mention poachers. THESE people ARE the vast majority of the people who trespass our land. It is not suspicion that these people are up to no good. They usually are up to no good.
Last week the wife and kids stopped at a gas station near the subdivision. There was a truck with three young men filling up that for some reason made her nervous. They left before she was done filling up. When the wifey turned into the subdivision there was the truck with the three men. They dropped one guy off who ran up to a house were an elderly man lives alone. The man ran up to the back door not the front door. This could have been because of the layout of the roads and house but it was strange. The truck left the one guy and drove in 1/4 mile to the next house where both men got out and started knocking on doors. The next house they stopped at is another elderly person living alone....
There have been robberies going on during the daytime in our area. The thugs have been kicking in the back doors. On house might have been broken into a guy who a neighbor hired to rake leaves.
The wife called me and asked if she should call the Sheriff and I said yes.
Tell the dispatcher you have a suspicious vehicle occupied three times. Describe the truck and occupants. :laughing: Three deputies showed up pretty quickly. We do not know what the men said they were doing but they left. If the men were asking to rake leaves it is no big deal well maybe it is. If they had been up to no good the Sheriff now has information on men who they might want to talk to in the future if there are more robberies.
The neighbor
hood does have a Neighborhood Watch Sign but I guess they missed that sign as well.
Later,
Dan
