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Thursday, November 02, 2006

The return of the suspicious red truck

Yesterday I received a disturbing email from a neighbor. You would think with the amount of emails I receive every day that more than one would be disturbing!

Anyway, this neighbor wanted to confirm with me that a suspicious red truck that had been seen in Brookside last Spring was the same truck he had encountered on Sunday. I thought we had seen the last of this guy but I dug out my old email and sure enough the license plate number matched. Last Spring this individual had approached some children asking for directions. The police had stopped him several times but unfortunately he has no record and there's nothing illegal about driving around and asking for directions, even when you don't need them. On Sunday he was sitting outside my neighbor's house for about 30 minutes. My neighbor finally became suspicious enough that he went outside and asked the guy what was up. When he got to the window he saw an open beer in the guy's lap and noticed he was clearly intoxicated. The man sped away.

I sent an email out to my neighborhood list letting everyone know to be on the lookout for this guy. It was soon picked up and broadcast to other neighborhoods. I began receiving inquiries from people I've never met asking for more details and what they could do to prevent this guy from harming anyone. This morning I had a voicemail from Bev Chapman at Channel 9 News. This afternoon I received a call from Maria Antonia. They're going to run a story. Hopefully this guy will see the news and decide to stop doing whatever it is he's doing. Hopefully we can stop him before he hurts someone.

All this from one little email. Maybe one person can make a difference.

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