Posted by PS on June 18, 2005 at 12:21:52:
In Reply to: help posted by tim o on June 18, 2005 at 10:47:58:
: some of you know that steph and i have had a pretty rough year. we're taking it in stride. at this point, i'm getting real frustrated. waiting for a nice calm season. last week i got t-boned, totaled the truck. nobody was hurt, thank God, however my truck was totaled. trucks are replaceable. we got a new one. then thursday someone took out my mailbox and trash coral i built. not cool. again, nobody was hurt, but somebody could have easily been checking the mail. i was home but i didn't hear it. i guess i must be going deaf. called the police, they said i had to go to the station and pick up a self reporting form and mail it in. not certain if they would even do anything, so i took up the evidence left behind, (headlight, trim, paint) and did a little investigating. found the car that fits the description, and realized that my patience is so thin if i approach them, it's likely to get real ugly. i know where they live, but what would i say? hey, you left this in my grass? sputtering trying not to curse. is it so hard to knock on someones door and say, hey i messed up, i'm sorry?
: right now, i stand frozen. as Chevell put it.."i don't want to fight...i don't want to prove i'm right" the thing is , a part of me does. at least tell them to slow down. the next one i build will be stronger. much stronger.
: somebody tell me not to go to their house and give them attitude....
Did you tell the police that you know who did it and give them the evidence and the person's address and license number? Sometimes, even if the police would likely not have acted on a "lesser" crime, if you present them with solid evidence as to the perpetrator, it forces them to act.
I had a case where a license plate was stolen from me. To make things worse, the thief was getting parking tickets that were being sent to me to be collected! The police would not act. I took the violation addresses on the parking tickets, set a search perimeter, drove the area late at night and found the car with my stolen plate myself! I then called the police and told them where the thief's car sat at that very moment, and they had to respond. They towed the car. The copy of the police report was the evidence I needed to get the tickets off my record.