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The Irony Of It All
Brad Hollerbach

News Of Neighborhood Thefts Getting Personal

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2010, at 12:00 AM

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  • Probably my favorite blog of yours yet! Maybe that's because I was one of the victims. Still don't know if the police have my boyfriends Ipod yet. They keep telling us to call back later. Those kids cost me more than $125 for a new car window and $250 to replace the Ipod, they cost me my sense of feeling safe in my own neighborhood. (that is until my other neighbor told me she got some new bullets for her gun!) I hope these kids learn a lesson, but unfortunetly you are probably correct. They will not have the book thrown at them, but rather just get a slap on the wrist. And what will that do? Probably just teach them that they can go out and do this again w/o any reprercussion.

    -- Posted by PeggySue on Wed, Jul 28, 2010, at 9:29 AM
  • I failed to mention in this blog that for those of you who wish to track any criminal enterprises afoot in the city of Cape Girardeau you can check the handy crime map on this website.

    It is highly configurable and can be accessed at:

    http://www.semissourian.com/crime/map

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Wed, Jul 28, 2010, at 4:17 PM
  • thanks Brad!

    -- Posted by PeggySue on Thu, Jul 29, 2010, at 2:02 PM
  • When our neighborhood got hit with some teenage "pranks," a neighbor went up to his attic and retrieved his old Daisy air rifle and a tube of copper pellets. He laid in wait and at the right moment let fire.

    The yoewls could be heard several blocks over.

    Fortunately for him, he said nothing and his neighbors developed sudden memory loss.

    The police filed a "person or persons unknown" report. Did I mention the "pranks" came to an abrupt halt?

    -- Posted by voyager on Thu, Jul 29, 2010, at 11:19 PM
  • Well said. Truer words have not been written. I watch to see how close crimes are to my home as I watch those involved with cockroach enterprises come and go.

    -- Posted by LiveAnotherDay on Sun, Aug 1, 2010, at 8:32 AM
  • And just last week, my friend's car got keyed while it was parked on the street in front of my house. That didn't make the paper for some reason.

    -- Posted by PeggySue on Tue, Aug 3, 2010, at 1:32 PM