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We live in a very nice community. Our household is large enough that someone is always home, and my husband conducts his business primarily from home. However, today he left on a short errand while I was at home and the kids still at school. No more than 5 minutes later the doorbell rang and two highly suspicious young girls in their late teens/early 20s were at the door. Our dogs were barking ferociously, so I couldn't hear much of what the girls were trying to say and didn't open the door. Frankly, the girls looked like meth addicts but were dressed in slightly nicer clothes. I asked them what they wanted over the intercom (with the dogs still barking), and they said they were there participating in a "school competition," although they were not of high school age and certainly did not appear to be college students. They were carrying absolutely nothing, no purses, no papers, nothing. We live in a very enclosed residential community away from stores, major roads, etc. and they definitely looked out of place; you get to know your own neighborhood and city after many years and this was quite unusual. I told them I was busy over the intercom and said goodbye.
When my husband returned 10 minutes later he said that when he had left someone in a truck had been driving by very slowly and was closely watching him leave, enough so that he had suspicions about them and even hesitated at the end of the street to make sure they were moving on. Please understand my husband is never safety conscious and never makes a deal over nothing, so when he said this and repeated his suspicions I knew something was up!
I suspect the girls were sent to "feel out" the situation and see who in the community was home and that the person(s) in the truck might have been working in tandem to invade homes and/or steal delivered packages from front porches.
It's that time of year again, so it's just a word of caution. With the economy in crisis, we may unfortunately we seeing more of this.
When my husband returned 10 minutes later he said that when he had left someone in a truck had been driving by very slowly and was closely watching him leave, enough so that he had suspicions about them and even hesitated at the end of the street to make sure they were moving on. Please understand my husband is never safety conscious and never makes a deal over nothing, so when he said this and repeated his suspicions I knew something was up!
I suspect the girls were sent to "feel out" the situation and see who in the community was home and that the person(s) in the truck might have been working in tandem to invade homes and/or steal delivered packages from front porches.
It's that time of year again, so it's just a word of caution. With the economy in crisis, we may unfortunately we seeing more of this.