Dana_Fowle's Blog

Wow. This is very sad. And the outrage is that you have lost your heirlooms, which insurance reimbursement cannot replace. And to top it off, you find the guy and justice isn't served. And they wonder why people believe in vigilante justice.

Georgia JUSTICE!...Sonny Purdue ought to be PROUD! Now that judge surely has to answer to SOMEONE!...Can't you demand a reason for this criminal's release ....(and no, Non-Sequitur is NOT AN ANSWER) Neither is "we don't have enogh room". What about where he stashed his loot?...They caught the man but couldn't question him or something?...I mean, DAMN do we have to get Alabama Police on this and try this case in Alabama?
SOMEONE HAS To ANSWER.

Well, to make myself feel better since the system hadn't worked for us I got the guy's mugshot and posted it on every corner for blocks and blocks with the words THIEF written across the top of it. I would go out at breakfast and post them. He'd take them down. I'd do it again at lunch and dinner. I gave myself one week to do this, then I stopped. I never got anything back because he's thought to be homeless, but I made my point: I'm a very big pain in the butt.

But Jason, did this burglar have a lawyer who agreed to take his case?

Dana,

I'd press charges myself and file a complaint against this guy, there is such a thing as citizen arrest. If you even have a suspicion that he is in possession of some of your articles and property I'd contact the county district attorney and see what other recourse's you have. I'd keep filing complaints against him even if it's for loitering or suspicious activities. I'd make it so every time he's seen on your street a cop stops him just for an I.D. check. Make it to hot for him to move about, and maybe he'd think twice before he victimizes someone else maybe even you again......Trippy :(!)

How is she guilty of anything? She and her husband are actually the innocent victims in this case, and the system let them down. Who cares about the rights of the criminal? I don't care if the jails are overcrowded. Let them sleep up against the wall, on the floor, or standing up for all I care. I hope she does make his life rough, and that he does move away. We don't need people like that around here. She and her husband work hard, obey the law, and just want a nice life and you tell her that she is guilty of posting his pic? I don't give a DAMN if she puts his pic on the news. I hope she does.

Jason

Sky30141, I guess I need to explain! Dana had asked a locksmith on another storey she was doing, "where are you from?" A hystronic viewer/reader decided that her question was RACEIST, and has been berating her since. So My question to Dana was tongue in cheek as was the folowing statement!

As for the next paragraph it is true that she should be very glad that she wasnt ar home when the burglery occured. I know several folks that decided that a gun was part of their purse inventory after being assualted in their own house...

When I have your wounded

Too much "LIBERAL" (and yes that's who it is) media has given not only Firearms a "bad propoganda" but the 'RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS' itself .. a bad propoganda to the populace.

Ask yourself this, "When do bad situations that involve guns end?" Answer: "When SOMEONE ELSE comes into the picture with ANOTHER GUN."

Guns are NOT EVIL, for they have no emotions. Only those OPERATING the gun, have emotions.
A gun is a machine...just like a knife is used to prepare your supper, used to hurt people, it is also used to save other peoples' lives.
(SURGEONS use knives don't they?)

Guns are the same. Only someone suffering of acute mental deficiency would think otherwise.
If we 'outlawed' everything that could kill us, we would all have to walk everywhere...naked. Forget about modern medicine. Forget about technology. Banning Guns or the RIGHT to bear arms....is just as insane.... and yes, I mean, INSANE.

Hi Dana. I am so sorry to hear about your fiasco. Keep your head up. I can imagine that you and your husband are strong together and can rebuild what was taken. The memorabilia and priceless items can't be replaced. I had this to happen before and contemplated getting a gun. I moved back to Austell with my best friend, who didn't need to be in a big house with her small self. I think moreso now about getting a gun because I have become the 'house security' and 'watch dog.' We already have a plan of action for emergencies...I swing and throw, she hits 911. I sleep less and watch anything suspicious in the neighborhood. Luckily (for now) I live in a neighborhood that is hidden in plain view.

You can tell the economy is bad because, at least intown, crime seems to be up. I get lots of emails now from folks in perfectly fine city neighborhoods that are now fearful. I'm watching the same thing happen where I live.

Just this week I stopped in at the local gas station and a well-dressed, polite, tall, strapping man was shaking, calling 911. He said that the thugs that hang out in the parking lot just walked in and emptied out his pockets. He couldn't do a thing about it.

These young guys just roam with complete freedom terrorizing people. I can say this about our home security, we won't leave town without a housesitter which means our two very big dogs will always be here. They DO NOT like strangers.

Do you think motion detector lights are worth the money?

Where does a homeless man put everything that I own? Good question. I guess he had help and already had a network of places to fence stolen goods.

I forgot to mention this: the day that I got home I was walking around the corner to chat with a neighbor. About that time a moving truck pulled up to my house and turned around. As it left, the driver turned his head and covered his face as he went past me. I'm pretty sure they were coming back to take my furniture.

The neighborhood Eagle Eye was down and out after a surgery. The guy to my right hates newcomers to the neighborhood. He saw stuff but didn't say anything. My lovely neighbors to the back saw something but for the first time I didn't alert them that I was going out of town. I just got sloppy. They feel awful that they didn't do something. She said, "About 11:30 as I was going to bed I saw every light on in your house and someone in your basement. I assumed it was you because you didn't say you were leaving town." She also went to say, "My husband and I joked, 'Looks like a burglar but no burglar would light up the house like a Roman candle.'"

Lesson learned.