Wife forgot to remind me to go to the neighborhood watch meeting the other night, but luckily the block captain is persistent.
So I got there just when the officer started.
A co-worker who lives in the adjacent tract area says that last weekend their neighborhood watch group had an emergency meeting where they were informed that there was a "Jogging Bandit" running around and apparently in their tract area, they believe he had hit 29 houses in about 6 or so months.
Our block captain said that this is probably the same guy that hit around our neighborhood a bunch of times in the lalst three months.
Turns out, though, that this "Jogging Bandit" runs around the neighborhoods and hits houses that no one responds to a knock on the door, or where a window is led partially open. I had heard this third or fourth hand, so at the meeting when the officer mentioned a 60 year old male had been doing it, you should have heard the audience response. He stays less than one minute and grabs cash and jewelry only. He chooses the houses frequently where both parents work and the house is empty.
Then every Friday, he'd take off down to Mexico and take his stuff and he'd live like a king.
Pretty good deal? Until one girl, home sick, didn't answer the knock on the door, so the jogger went around the house and decided to lift the sliding glass window and the girl hid in the closet with a cell-phone to call the cavalry.
Chalk one up for the good guys.
So I got there just when the officer started.
A co-worker who lives in the adjacent tract area says that last weekend their neighborhood watch group had an emergency meeting where they were informed that there was a "Jogging Bandit" running around and apparently in their tract area, they believe he had hit 29 houses in about 6 or so months.
Our block captain said that this is probably the same guy that hit around our neighborhood a bunch of times in the lalst three months.
Turns out, though, that this "Jogging Bandit" runs around the neighborhoods and hits houses that no one responds to a knock on the door, or where a window is led partially open. I had heard this third or fourth hand, so at the meeting when the officer mentioned a 60 year old male had been doing it, you should have heard the audience response. He stays less than one minute and grabs cash and jewelry only. He chooses the houses frequently where both parents work and the house is empty.
Then every Friday, he'd take off down to Mexico and take his stuff and he'd live like a king.
Pretty good deal? Until one girl, home sick, didn't answer the knock on the door, so the jogger went around the house and decided to lift the sliding glass window and the girl hid in the closet with a cell-phone to call the cavalry.
Chalk one up for the good guys.