There were a flurry of emails and about 2 dozen cops all over the area with the chopper and they finally caught the guy.
This is the most recent email and the one that gives me chills.
Well shucks Ms. Fleming, what if he came inside? I don't know her stance about the 2nd amendment so I am not going to judge, but I can guess. Regardless, it looks like she did nothing to protect her charges other than stay on the phone with the cops and try and run outside.Well - I think it is over. We've had at least one police officer in our yard for hours. One officer just sat in a chair back there; he was guarding the "crime scene" back behind our kids' playhouse, where they found the criminal's gun. A crime scene unit of 6 showed up with cameras and the works about an hour ago, and the final detective just left our property 15 minutes ago after finding footsteps, figuring out which part of the fence he jumped, reenacting the criminal's path, etc.... He interviewed all of us, especially my eight year old daughter who was the one who said, "Mommy, We have a man in our bamboo forest." When she said that to me, I came to the window looking out over the backyard and saw the criminal, white male in a black tee and jeans with mid-length brown hair - he was crouched down in our bamboo. He saw me in the window on the phone. The criminal waved at me, and that is when he approached the house, while waving at me, and he tried to jump the fence, and fell. I thought he was coming TO the house. I ran with the kids to the front of the house at that point, and heard the cops apprehend him in the yard next door. I was on the phone with 911 the entire time, and they "talked" me through it. Beyond scary...especially with four little kids scared out of their minds. Thank God they found the gun.
Great plan. I guess if you have nothing, you work with what ya got. But if she was armed this would be a different situation and the cops would have been all sorts of pleased if she had warned him off.
Jeebus.
I'm just glad that she and the kids are all right. I am tempted to email her off the list and mention that I'd be glad to chat to her about self defense etc.
Who knows? She make like that. But the area I am in is just as likely to have he freak the fuck out on me. I'm already unpopular for pointing out that all the HUD housing in the area is the hub of 90% of the crime in the area. I just hate the poor. And then I have to deal with attitudes like this;
Which is good advice but the reply was about the poor cold folks out in this world who have no choice but to steal from your car. I mean, the Salvation Army is like a mile away!
****bishop@****.com wrote;
And don't forget, in cold weather clothing is VERY valuable, especially a jacket. People will steal something to keep warm out of pure necessity on a cold night.
On Aug 15, 2011, at 12:45 PM, <c***@*****.com> wrote:
> Neighbors, as a recent victim of burglary in the hood I am repeating what the Police have told us previously....do not leave ANYTHING of any potential value, including spare change, visible in your vehicles. Always lock your vehicles, day and night. Of course this will not always deter crime and certainly may not keep some #&%$!? from breaking your windows but it diminishes the chances. Also, a side note. I know someone who has a tendency to leave mail with important identifying info, including bank statements and SS# in the car. This is a VERY BAD IDEA. Please remember to remove all mail with personal identity info from your vehicles as well. My sympathies to all of you who have been victimized by our latest crime spree. -- Cynthia
What started this was a guy who's GPS got stolen off his dash.
This kind of stuff pisses me off. FMS. CC would have been on the phone to the cops but she would have had a .38 in her hand while she did it. If the guy tried to force his way in he would have been a dead duck. The last bum who was in her back yard almost was when she found him sleeping in the bamboo.
Anyway, I'm hot under the collar from all this victim mentality.
Thoughts?
