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Here we go, y'all- Like a bad movie, but real life.
We've been having a rash of car break-ins on my street for... oh about the past 8 months. Our own cars have been broken into twice already, and a bunch of electronics, welding equipment, wiring, etc. have been stolen from neighborhood vehicles in separate incidents. Several of our neighbors have installed streaming security cameras in response.
The problem is, I live way out in the boonies but am still under Houston PD's jurisdiction. Obviously Houston can't afford to send a whole bunch of officers out into the boonies every come tonight, so we're largely on our own.
Cue the redneck militia.
A couple weeks ago, one of the neighborhood guys saw three men trying all his car door handles onscreen, so he ran out the front door and pinned one of the thieves against the car. The other ones took off. The homeowner started screaming, waking up guy #2 from across the street who runs outside with a 45 and confronts the two guys mid-run. So guy #2 hollers at the thieves that "y'all may be able to outrun me, but you won't get past my gun. Now get your @$$es in the ditch." (They did.) So then both homeowners started yelling for someone to call the police and proceeded to hold all three of the would-be thieves at gunpoint for the 30 minutes it took the cops to show.
In their skivvies.
In 30 degree weather.
So then last night, the guy across the street had his truck broken into and his camera also caught someone trying to get into my car. So today, the rest of the men on the street decided to take hourlong shifts every night to keep watch. H just covered all the lights on an old laptop with electrical tape and straight-up duct-taped the computer to our garage door with the webcam peeking up through the window so that he can watch from inside. I'm not joking.
So much for dispelling the whole Texas stereotype.
Re: Here we go, y'all- Like a bad movie, but real life.
I'm sorry your car keeps getting broken into but your story is cracking me up.
So there are multiple groups of people that are doing this? What did they do to the first group of guys once the police got there?
Wow! I'm sorry about all the break ins.
But the part about your H duct taping the laptop to the garage made me spit out my coffee. Hillarious!
That is awesome! Well not the break in part obviously.
The police arrested them for trespassing, but they were 16-17, so they just got a slap on the wrist.
We're not sure if it's the same group that's doing all the break-ins or different people. I guess we're going to find out. As my H so eloquently put it, "Forget neighborhood watch, we're a band of fat, robe-donning sidewalk samurais just wishing someone would."
Hoo boy.
This whole story has me LOL, especially this!
Sorry about your car, though.