Im curious how you guys would feel about this.
So.... My nieghbor kid, has been hanging around , asking for food .
This all started last fall. He came by and asked if we had a few extra slices of bread, then a few days later, peanut butter, , then eggs, soup etc.
I do not mind this at all. Our house, however, is a total bachelor pad now, and I rarely have much food on stock.
I've been buying extra food, when I shop and leaving it in their mailbox. Just little stuff, bread, eggs, milk, , soup, ramen etc.
I know they are dirt poor. Mom is a disablility rider ( most likely fraudulent ) and an alchoholic . They live in a little run down mobile home on a beautiful piece of land . The grandparents live in a nice house on one side of them, and his aunt lives in a nice little modular house on the other side of them. They all seem like relatively decent people, but we kind of keep to ourselves .
He is 15 and slightly off, but seems like a fairly decent kid , who has just had the misfortune of growning up in a broken home .
However.... My spidey senses have been giving me a bit of warning lately .
a few years back, I left my wallet in my 911 overnight . I live in the kind of place where, I have not locked my doors, or my cars in 25 years . Never a prolbem . I had myself convinced that I had lost my walled, but def remember having it on the front seat of my car on the way home that night .
Next day, my wallet is in my mailbox, empty of cash, but everhtying else is there intact.
In talking with my neighbors this spring, come to find, my next door neighbor , had his polar water jug full of change, stolen, and the elderly lady behind me says she has this kid on her security cameras sniffing her property after dark several times . She is alarmed.
He has borrowed money and food from both of these neighbors also .
I honestly feel, bad, for the kids, and have no problem helping them out once in a while, but also have no desire in getting my house robbed. It may not be him, but if I had to take a wild guess... He is kind of the only one around . Most of my other neighbors are older, and pretty well off .
I also just found out this morning , that he just got caught shoplifing at the local convenience store .
So... Im at a crossorads here . Im super friendly with this kid. I just gave him a bunch of old bicycles, and I am always kind to him. He has nothing in his life resembling a role model, or even a decent person.
Im thinking about having a talk with him, and just tell him , that I am happy to help , and please, if you need something , let me know , but also to let him know somehow ( I have no idea how to breach this subject ) ,that some of the neighbors have had some things missing and are alarmed.
I want to make my point very clear, that intruders will be met with full force .
I was thinking maybe I could invite WDfifteen over, and maybe we could insult the kid and rough him up a bit or something.
I keed Patrick .
How would you tread on this matter ?