I never thought I would find myself in a police station, but I had to file a police report when our window A/C unit was stolen.
When I spoke to the neighbors about the incident, it was good to hear that they didn’t have anything stolen from their property, but they heard that another neighbor down the street had a window A/C unit stolen as well.
I told them to spread the word about a vandal in our area and it wasn’t before long when everybody was putting up video surveillance to keep the neighborhood safe. Fortunately, the next time the thief attempted to steal another window A/C unit, he was caught on camera. It was just a kid and he claimed that he was a gang member and he had no choice but to steal the window A/C units. I think that’s a terrible thing that we have gangs in the area. It certainly doesn’t make me want to stick around even though we have such a nice neighborhood. I suppose we will carry on for a little while and see if there is any other serious crime in the area. It’s strange because I hadn’t heard about any gangs in our area until this kid made that claim. Who knows, maybe he was lying just to try to get some sort of reputation. People have been known to do some crazy things to be the center of attention, if only for a short while only. Well, we weren’t able to get our old cooling unit back, but our insurance covered the loss and we got another window A/C unit that was actually nicer than the last one.