Dang Prowler!

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

We've got a prowler been lurkin about these parts lately. :mad: Supposedly a black man with "soft hands" ;) as has been reported by some of the older ladies that have been prowled upon. Up to now he has been prowlin round older, single hispanic women. :confused:

They caught one guy who was burgling a house in the middle of the night but the hubby chased him clean out of one of his shoes :eek:, so the SO did the Cinderella thing with a bloodhound and came up with one of our resident crack heads. I don't think they think he's "The Prowler". He's just a copy cat looking for some cash.

Well anyway, #2 son comes barreling through the living room saying that he got a call from a niece of a lady down the street and someone was banging on her window. :cool: Now I don't think that the prowler bangs on the window before he prowls inside but it still offered an opportunity to join the posse! :) We grabbed our Maglites and headed off into the gloom. We did a quick check through the backyards on our way down the street and met the SO at Tia's house. One of the Deputies had found a cat munching on a lizard under the banged upon window. I guess you could say the cat had the Purrrrrfect alibi! :rolleyes:

#2 son and I walked on home, bittersweet.. The case was solved but it still would have been nice to beat the snot out of "The Prowler" with a four cell Maglite! :D

Alan

[Greywolf]

let me tell you those mag lights don't bend much.
Keep up the good work, hope you catch the SOB, before the law gets there and has the obligation to protect him.:rolleyes:

[ncboman]

I usually have a trailcam setup out behind the barn. My prowlers are regulars, a possum and the neighborhood dogs. :D

ncboman

[TXAnn38]

Were there footprints, besides the cat's and the lizard's? :D

It's great, though, that you all look out for one another and I do hope that prowler gets caught. Ann

[Bushman]

Seems to me that if I saw someone in my back yard with a four cell Maglite, I'd report a prowler too. Probably someone out looking for their cat that likes eating lizards.

[Bill Gunn]

Seems to me that if I saw someone in my back yard with a four cell Maglite, I'd report a prowler too. Probably someone out looking for their cat that likes eating lizards.

L O L ... I can just see it..

HONEST OFFICER, I WAS LOOKING FOR MY LIZARD EATING CAT :o:o


As a side issue..

We just had a guy released from jail. 21 years in prison for rapes he never did.
The Erie County DA, Frank Clark did NOT want to set him free even with the new evidence, and a Buffalo Cop lost his job because he pushed the issue against politicians that didn't want to look bad from throwing a retarded man in prison for something he absolutely did not do.
I love politicians :mad:


In 1987, Anthony Capozzi was convicted of two rapes in Delaware Park Sentenced to 11 2/3 to 35 years for the rapes, he served 21½ years before investigators had their doubts about the conviction; Capozzi spent that long in prison because he maintained his innocence and refused to accept responsibility for the crimes. The Erie County DA, Frank Clark, cited that physical or DNA evidence to overturn such a conviction was lacking and because the conviction was based mainly on eyewitness identification.

Investigators looking over the case files discovered that indeed DNA evidence did exist from the Delaware Park rapes stored, preserved, and cataloged at the Erie County Medical Center before the use of computers to accumulate such evidence. The discovered evidence soundly exonerated Anthony Capozzi of the crime and DNA matched that of Altemio Sanchez. In early April, an Erie County Judge vacated the charges and dismissed the case in the interest of justice, thus, setting Capozzi free after incarceration for over two decades.

[GF.]

What's up with the system when a guy who maintains his innocence ends up spending 3 times as long in jail as the guy who sez "Yeah? I did it. So what?"

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

No Annie, it was the cat. We should be so lucky as to get the prowler around here. We'd probably let him get up and run a couple of times just to kinda prolong the fun. A prowler needs to be real careful which back yard he jumps into. He might find a big ole yellow lab, or a couple of Dogos and a Pit, a Blue heeler or a Catahoula, orrrrr he might just get extremely unlucky and hop in with the Arkansas Pit across the street. A couple of Maglites across the head might be a real relief after that.

Alan

[TXAnn38]

It would be a brave burglar who attempted prowling around in your neighborhood then, Alan! :D:D:D

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

Well, I'm not saying it could never happen but since I can't sneeze in the front yard without it sounding the alarm among the barking dogs plus there's just too many "Rednecks" living in here. Even the Hispanics that live around here are "Rednecks". (I used to have a picture of a "Redneck Car Alarm") In a town our size it's tough being a burglar anyway. Chances are that if someone does see you they are going to recognize you and call your mother before you can get home.

In addition to that our breed of burglar in these parts is just not very smart. Several years ago we had a series of break-ins at school. They took some digital cameras from the elementary school and robbed the High School Library fine box (got approx $4.81 in that haul). The SO came and took pictures of the Library and left. Later in the day the Librarians aide called me to the Library and showed me the copy machine. In the paper tray was a picture of a hand shooting the finger (I suppose in response to our lackadaisical approach to collecting Library fines). I called the SO and told them that I thought I had at least ONE fingerprint for them. They came and got the picture and, sure enough, he was already in the system. a quick search of the hideout produced the cameras and a few other little things. It seems that the "Gang" had spent most of one night taking pictures of themselves posing with the stolen items and engaging in various other illegal activities. A whole slew of other robberies were solve that day as well. I guess it's good they're not real sharp.


Alan

[GF.]

Chances are that if someone does see you they are going to recognize you and call your mother before you can get home.


Nothing keeps a kid quite as honest as a whole town full of people who know his name :D

I used to work for a guy who grew up in what is now an extremely tough part of Detroit... He used to say that when he was a kid, it was still a real neighborhood, so any misdeed you might have committed was sure to bring you one beating from the adult who caught you doing it, at least one from your parents, and usually a couple in between from the adults who had already heard what you did and were able to lay their hands (or belts!) on you as you made your way home from the scene of the crime....

Compared to that, he said, that all-expenses-paid sightseeing trip he took to SE Asia really wasn't that big a deal...:eek:

[TXAnn38]

Alan, sounds like those yahoos have been taking lessons from the dumbcrooks.com site. :D:D:D

[Cindi]

The girls and I were home alone one weekend ... me basically being the scaredy cat that I have always been, I had us all locked in my bedroom for the night.

When I say locked in, I mean locked in; the door to the rest of the house was barricaded with a dresser, the door to the lanai had a board shoved under the knob ... you know, the usual precautions.

We were lying in bed about midnight watching a movie and I heard "tap ... tap ... tap ..." on the window. A quick glance at Jill's terrified face confirmed that she heard it too.

"What was that?" she whispered.

Well, of course, in my mind, it could only be a burglar or prowler. I reached for the cordless phone and dialed 911 without another thought, meanwhile it came again ... "tap ... tap ... tap ..." which only served to raise the pitch of my voice to a squeal, which prompted the 911 dispacher to whine in protest.

"Ma'am we have a car in the area, they'll be arriving your location any min ..."

"tap ... tap ... tap ..."

"Tell 'em to hurrry!"

Seconds later I heard the officers knocking on the door, and then and only then did I feel it was safe to move the dresser and dash down the hall to open the front door.

I explained what we had heard, and they said,

"Around the house on that side?" and pointed.

"Yes!"

"Inside the privacy fence?"

"Well ... yes."

"Hmmm ... odd."

Well, the hell with you, I'm thinking, burglars climb privacy fences. They climb like cats. Like damned cat burglars.

"We'll go check it out," they said, shrugging.

They walked around the side of the house and I was waiting for them at the bedroom window. Of course when they approached the gate, the dog barked once, and then retreated, clearly recognizing good guys when he saw them.

One of the officers shined his Maglite through the screen at my face, which was beginning to go red.

"Was the dog back here?"

I nodded.

"Did he bark?'

"Well ... no."

"Hmmm ... odd."

About that time the other officer solved the mystery. Apparently, the light from the television was attracting bugs to the window, and a big fat lizard that had found himself trapped between the glass and the screen, was making up for lost hunting time with a vengeance.

As we watched, his head popped up and down three or four times in that classic, lizard hunting dance that they do, and with each movement, he tapped the glass in the window, completely oblivious to the fact that there were 5 humans watching him.

"Okay, fine," I muttered to the cops, who were laughing by now. "Have your fun."

"No, it's okay, you did the right thing. You wanna book 'im Morris, or you want me to? Better hold onto 'im tho', the cuffs are gonna slip right off!"

Snort, snort, guffaw.

I'm still a big chicken when alone at night but I tend not to jump at the slightest sound anymore. Which is a good thing, because I sleep with a loaded pistol under my pillow these days.:D