From Kirsten on the CHPN Facebook:
Friends and neighbors, please keep a look out for each other, and don’t assume work being done on your neighbor’s house is necessarily legit. Some random dudes walked right into my back yard today and set a ladder up against my roof. I do NOT have any exterior work scheduled. Luckily my good neighbor texted to ask me if I had work scheduled, and I said no, please call the police! I still don’t know what’s going on. An officer is at my house now trying to get to the bottom of this.
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My neighbor had the good sense to get a picture of the truck (red Ford with broad white stripe) and the licence plate, which she gave to the police. The truck was from Chesterfield. The police took the ladder away before they left Saturday. Now apparently the guy will be going in to the police to get his ladder back, and will be subject to some questioning. I have so many questions…
To add to the weirdness of the story, these same guys, before going into my yard, had WALKED RIGHT IN THE BACK DOOR of my neighbor’s house as she was sitting there at her kitchen table. They said they were looking for someone named Shawn. WTF??? Who does this?? If they are not actual criminals, they are morons.
Where was this located?
Just got an update from a City detective. Apparently, this was all a big misunderstanding. Someone at a realty company sent these guys to NORTH 27th St., but should have sent them to WEST 27th (opposite side of the river, totally different neighborhood) to fix a roof. The detective said the guys showed him the text message proving that they were told to go to my house.
yeah, no way a text message could be fake.
I actually flagged down RPD Saturday and had them check it out. Saw them leave with the ladder.
Thanks for the follow up!
@ Tony, hopefully the RPD has the means to distinguish fake from real text.
@ Thomas (my M-street neighbor Tom?) — thanks! Timing was perfect.
Glad that it all worked out. Stranger things have happened.