My coworker came in this morning with a good story. He has an inflatable snowman and an inflatable Santa in his front yard. He bought them at walmart and has the boxes and the receipt for each one. Someone down the street called the cops and said that their snowman and santa had been stolen and that they had written their initials on the bottom of each one. They told the cops that they looked identical to my coworkers. So the cops go over to his house, look on the bottom and the initials are there. So my coworker showed the cops the receipts and the empty boxes but it does no good, the cops take the snowman and santa and give them to the person who filed the report. Now he is out $100 because they cost him about $50 each. Obviously the person went over there and wrote their initials on them before filing the police report. Can you believe that?
Oh hell no...he needs to take the police department AND that neighbor of his to small claims court. I mean, two people in the same neighborhood buying the same christmas decorations from Wal Mart? There's no possible way... Besides, who would be stupid enough to steal Christmas decorations from somebody who lives down the street from you?
Well obviously he has to go steal them back, or at least go cut the eyes out of them. You just can't let people get away with that. This means war!
shouldn't the cops at least ask for proof of purchase (receipt and box) from the neighbor who reported the loss?
back when we were in highschool a friends neighbor called the cops on us for having a party that he thought was too loud. Late that night his reindeer that were made out of small logs and tigs had an unfortunate lighter fluid and match accident.
Thats the thing, they didn't. The initials were good enough for them. They took my coworkers box and receipt as "evidence". Also they won't tell him who it is that called, he doesn't even know if its someone on his street, his neighborhood, or what.
huh? Someone wrote their initials on his property and then called the police and claimed it to be theirs.
I'm struggling to believe this. I'm certainly no expert in criminal law, but I don't think a cop would have the right to play judge and jury......which is what he did by rendering a judgement that the santa and snowman belonged to the other neighbor. As far as I'm concerned, they both should have gone to jail. All you people who have those damn inflatable Christmas decorations are all white trash, and you need to move the **** out of my neighborhood and back to the trailer park. (I'm only slightly serious; I have dear friends and neighbors with inflatables......I'm just not a big fan myself)
Well, thanks for the clarification, but I did read the initial post. That could be part of his argument to the judge; why would he steal something from his neighbor's yard? That would be dumber than writing initials on the bottom of someone else's yard decorations and claiming they were stolen...well, unless you have the keystone kops patrolling the neighborhood
so, wait. let me get this straight. they report the inflatables as stolen. the cops find it in your co-workers yard. cops take his box, receipt, and inflatables and "return" them to the people who reported. so the cops basically implied that he was guilty of theft, yet did not cite him on at least a misdemeanor? they don't let people go that easily for stealing. i call BS.
The cop screwed up, I'd head up there and speak to the donut eater in charge and tell him to stop serving egg nog to his officers this early in December.
hmmm. You're assuming that cops always do the right thing? It is not BS, my coworker is a buddy of mine and he didn't make this story up. The only reason he came in and told me about it this morning is because its so crazy, and hes pissed, and he doesn't know what to do. Hence why I posted this. Also, the cops took the recepits and boxes and evidence and he thinks they returned the snoman and santa to the people who filed the report. He is supposed to find out more later today from from the police department.
