[GWN7]

My neibour is a thief.

He lives two doors over. Last summer the family that lived 6 doors down the street dog (Great Dane) started to bark at 3:30am. They look out and the man door of the garage is open. It was padlocked (broken open) and their daughters bike is missing. They call the cops and make a report. Detectives are supposed get back to them. The next day the daughter (12 yrs old) see's a kid (8-10 yrs old) riding her bike (kids know there own bikes) and runs home to get her mom. Mom goes storming out and see's the kid taking the bike into the house two doors over. She opens the door and grabs the bike as the kid is trying to put it in the basement. Kid says the bike is his, his dad got it for him. Threats of police and kid gives up bike. Two weeks later mom, daughter and rest of family move 6 hrs away. Police never get back to them.

About a week after this happens another neibour gives me a bunch of material to recycle. One of the items is a iron leg bench. Sides are iron and wood slates between them. One leg is broken making it unusable. It's too late to unload the stuff in my back yard (don't want to wake the nice neibour's kids)so I leave it all on the truck till the next day.

The next day my next door neibour comes over to talk while I'm unloading the stuff out back and I get everything off and the broken leg from the bench is last thing I unload. I laugh and remark to him that someone stole the broken bench off the truck overnight. An hour later he phones me and tells me to look two yards over. So I go outside and climb the motorhome ladder and see the broken bench two yards over. I take pictures and print them of the bench in the thief's yard and the broken leg that is still in my possession and off to the police I go to make a report. I make the report and hand over the pictures all the detectives need to do is come get the leg I have and match it to the bench in the thief's yard and minimum they have him for possession of stolen property or theft by finding. I never hear from the detectives.

Winter passes. The thief's wife/gf leaves him and takes kids with her. Pile of kids toys in front yard and I see her and some other guy carrying furniture out of house tells me this.

Spring happens and I see the guy who lives across the lane from me. He had installed a video camera that captures behind his garage. He says "you were right about the thief ...... I caught him on camera stealing the block heater cord off my wife's car." He went and pounded on the thief's door and demanded it back. He's a big guy who works in a tattoo shop.

Last week I painting the third floor exterior of my house and the thief comes over wanting to "borrow" a air line. I told him to F***off and that I don't help people that steal from me. He gets a bit upset. He comes in and out of his house over the next couple of hours. Stares at me then yells "I'm not a thief". Last time he comes out and says "Someone broke into my truck last night, I'm going to tell the cops you did it"

I told him you go right ahead buttercup......