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In any event, whoever saw the car outside simply should have called 911. It's called watching out for your neighbors!
Or better yet someone who is a damn man around there gather a couple neighbors and walk up to the car to find out what's going on. If the people in the parked car were actually up to no good they will quickly learn the people in this neighborhood do not play and common sense will tell them to pick another neighborhood.
Remember, when seconds count police are only minutes away.
A good burglar puts safety first. Clearly these guys wanted to ensure that they did not trip as the exited the residence carrying their loot, so they temporarily put out solar powered path lights since the house had none.
This was a clever burglar who knows how to think outside the box.
Rather than showing up, entering the property and stealing some loot, he decided to bring his own loot to add to the property first, then take it away.
That way, in the event he does get caught, he can only be charged with misdemeanor trespassing rather than burglary, larceny, breaking and entering, or other things that make his resume less marketable.
So someone came early in the day and installed the lights, and the homeowner didn't notice them....and then later someone came back, and turned them off, and then after turning them off un-installed them?
I'm trying to think like an FBI profiler but I'm not getting the "tactic" here.
Who discovered this anyway, the neighbor who was watching? Why didn't they do something?
Mystery solved! We got an update on it from our neighborhood email list. It turns out it wasn't a burglary attempt at all. It was a high school kid setting out candles to ask his girlfriend to prom. He texted her, asking her to look out her window, but it turns out she was away that night (I guess they're not too close). So he had to pick up the candles one by one and blow them out.
The neighbors who saw it did call the police, who arrived after the kid had left. I don't blame them for not going out and confronting them. Unless someone's in immediate danger, better let the police handle it.
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