"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 3/23/2015 7:24 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> We went to Costco today, it was remarkably empty, no one
>> in line for gas, not too many people in the store. Cool.
>> I was in a hunt to find the steam mop I wanted and left Ron
>> with the cart.
>>
>> He stepped away look look at something and caught a woman
>> make a sneaky move and stole the only thing in the cart!
>> My coupon book!
>>
>> Why he didn't say anything, I don't know. I think he was just
>> astonished. Bad enough my name and address are on the book,
>> my written shopping list was in there, a good size list.
>> Don't worry, I didn't forget to get the bananas. Heh.
>>
>> Good thing my bag wasn't in there, we be sealing the entrance.
>> Thief on the loose.
>>
>> nancy
>
> Maybe you should move to a better neighborhood. :-)

I was shocked to see that you can't use a debit card at the Grocery Outlet
in Everett without providing I.D. The cashier said they'd been getting
stolen debit cards. We also have what they have dubbed "The Birthday Cake
Bandit". A blonde haired woman who has stealing mother's credit cards. She
started out hanging out in school parking lots and waiting for women to
leave their purse in their vehicle. Now why people do this is beyond me! I
would never leave a purse in a car unless someone else was sitting in there
and wasn't going to leave. I have run into a store quickly and only took my
wallet if my daughter or mom agreed to sit there with the purse. Anyway...
She is using the stolen card to buy gas, junk food and cake. Always cake!

Oh and... My next door neighbor got his claw footed bathtub stolen!
Granted he did leave it outside. He's the one who is taking next to forever
to finish the house remodel. He had tools stolen as well. I predicted a
long time ago that tools would be stolen. I did mention to his wife that
work trucks need to be secured because the man who owned the house prior had
been robbed of his tools. But they didn't listen. I kept seeing work
trucks sitting open and tools laying all over, not being watched.

One day they put a sign up stating that there is a security cam on the
premises. This after a window was broken. I assumed they had been robbed
as well. But perhaps not. Because there had been no crime report listed on
the Snohomish county crime map and now there is.

A really long time ago, a Pods storage unit appeared in the driveway. I
have no clue what is in it and if they are moving stuff in or out. Then a
claw footed bathtub appeared between it and the house. Appeared to be
vintage and that seemed weird. I know that it didn't come out of the house.
These houses were built in the 1980's and the only tub that was in there was
identical to the one in my husband's bathroom. So they must have been
intending to put the tub into the house. But why they left it sitting
outside like that is beyond me.

They obviously don't pay a lot of attention to things. There has been a
water leak over there for a really long time. At one point, they did clean
up the mud it created but didn't fix the leak. Then I noticed a large note
tacked to their front door. I wanted to go read it but didn't want to trek
across the mud and unmown grass to get to it.

But the next day? I noticed a blue tarp in what appears to be the yard next
door and some digging and missing piles on either side of the water main.
So clearly someone fixed a leak. It is all put back now. I have no clue
where that property line is or whose meter that would be. I only see the
one. I don't see another one. But there still appears to be a leak in that
yard next door. But I digress.

The day of the robbery, I actually looked over there to see if the tub was
still there. And it was. I have no clue what possessed me to look either,
but I did. So that would have been around 3-4:00 p.m. on Sat. And
somewhere between then and dinner time on Sun., the robbery occurred. I
have been told that claw footed tubs weigh a ton. So how did the robber get
that tub across all of that mud? Or maybe there was actually enough mud and
water there by then that they could have just slid it to the street. But
then how did they get it in the getaway vehicle? I have no clue.

It was pretty funny though when my husband came in yesterday to tell us
about it. He was all freaked out. Neighbor got his bathtub stolen! I'm
sure he had no clue that the guy was stupid enough to have left it outside.
He probably thinks the robber went in and took it out of the house. Heh.