"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 6/27/2015 4:01 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> You wouldn't laugh if it happened to you and I am sure that I mentioned
>> this before. This came during the time period where I happened upon
>> someone trying to rob the house on one side of me. The house on the
>> other side had been robbed and they stole tools a bathub and all of the
>> new appliances. So I was making it a point to go out throughout the
>> night since the robberies were happening at night. That particular time
>> though I had just gone out to put out some trash or recycling and saw
>> the security lights on and a black SUV out front. Not long after, a man
>> was caught, I believe in the Lake Stevens area with a ton of stolen
>> tools. It was the tool shed on the other side of me that was open when
>> I went out there.
>>
>> During this same time period, unbeknownst to me, someone had been
>> putting out trash and yard waste with mine. Because of the way my yard
>> is, I can not see to the street and can not see the bins after they are
>> put out unless I walk up to them. So it would be very easy for someone
>> to put things there after I was in for the night.
>>
>> Then I got my bill. And it was HUGE! During this period of time,
>> Angela had done a big clean out of her room and we may well have had one
>> extra can one week but nothing like what the bill claimed. I just
>> happened to be outside talking to three of my male neighbors about the
>> crime in the area and I asked if they had trash problems as I had.
>> After that, not only did this stop but the neighbor I suspected of doing
>> it, suddenly brought back his trash trailer. I just thought that he had
>> no place to put it because there had been a PODS there. But after the
>> contents of the PODS was stolen, he had it removed and the trash trailer
>> came back. Now I could well be barking up the wrong tree here but it
>> doesn't appear that way. At any rate, whoever was doing it has now
>> stopped.
>
> Yeah. Okay. Another whine. It was the neighbors. It was maybe robbers!
> It was because of some PODS containers. It's because she can't see the
> street from her crooked house. And due to all this drama, her trash
> pickup bill was HUGE!
>
> I don't know about anyone else but I don't pay a bill which is obviously
> incorrect. I pick up the phone, call the company and dispute the bill.
> What's the point of posting about it here?

What's the point of posting anything here? There isn't one really. And
just what do you think would have happened if I hadn't paid that bill? I
don't really know but I presume they would stop picking up my trash, then
eventually I would be taken to court. The trash company wasn't going to do
anything retroactive. They flagged my account so that now they will pick up
no extra trash unless I tell them to and they told me to call the Sheriff.
Both they and the Sheriff told me to keep an eye on things as well. The
problem immediately stopped when I spoke to the neighbors. I know it wasn't
the other two because they always put cans out. The one I suspected never
did and now he has his trash trailer back. Can I prove it was him? No.
Just seems a bit obvious. Or if not him, someone who works for him. I
suspected him before when it was a case of some weird, building material
stuff that filled up most of the can. It didn't come from us and when they
emptied the can, it didn't come out. So I had a looksie inside. They had
put really thick plastic, the kind that might cover a pallet and pushed it
down so hard that it was stuck. Only reason I suspected him was that he was
the only person to have done building work at that time.