Update: This morning when I went outside, my camera was sitting on top of my car. Battery,dead. My keys are still missing...but like I said, The lady and her sons live right around the corner from me now. I had talked to this girl that knows them and she knows where I live so....yeah... I think that boy took it for sure now, but w/e I got it back....now, if only my keys show up mysteriously tomorrow, I'll be set.
I want yall to know the WHOLE story, so..this is long....
I have a bit of a problem.... Last sunday, after church, I was helping to clean up. The WHOLE time my purse was with me, until I got ready to go. But, I stopped to talk to my cousin for about 20 mins. I had put my purse by the door along with Lia's carseat. It was OBVIOUSLY my stuff cuz I carry the same purse to church all the time!
Well anyway, My keys were out in the open.
When I came back to my purse, I couldn't find my keys. I retraced my steps and went into every room I had been in, checked under every pew, in the choir stand, in the bathrooms. EVERYWHERE!
My keys were gone.
I even had the remaining people help me look, and we stayed an extra hour looking for those keys.... later on that night ( I had to go to my cousins house, cuz I was locked outta my house AND my freakin car) we called around to everyone that had been at the afternoon service ( it's a small church) to see if anyone had possibly picked up my keys on accident and we asked people to ask their kids if they had picked them up playing with them... well, I realized my camera was also missing. I was hoping MAYBE I'd forgotten it at home. By Monday evening I knew my camera was really gone and my stuff going missing was NOT an accident ( camera was IN my purse)
We kept calling one family in particular because, there was bout 5 families of kids that I was able to slow the kids down long enough to see if they had my keys, or seen anyone messing with my stuff. I'd asked one son, but realized, when we were looking for my keys, his brother was nowhere to be found. They won't answer the phone. No matter WHO calls. I really think they KNOW he took my stuff and are trying to protect him.( they claim the church shuns the older boy, but that's because he's really violent to the other kids, including his brother and you never know what sets him off, so it's really to protect the other children) I've had personal run ins with this boy in the past. He's thrown food in my face, called me a bitch, all kinds of stuff, threatened to kill me ( even told me my address and told me he'd break into my house and cut my throat) If other people hadn't been around when all this was happening, his mom would've said I was "picking" on him.
Now, the Wed before, he'd asked if he could hold Lia. I told him no ( he's hit children before, and I don't let ANYONE hold Lia that's under 18) and earlier that Sunday he asked me again and I said no again.
I want to call the police because I feel so strongly that he took my stuff, and all his mom is going to do is play it off like it's my fault.( He's stolen a cellphone before, and it took them 2 weeks to figure out it was him, cuz somebody saw him at school with the phone! When his mom asked him, he lied right in her face and she started snappin saying everybody was always pickin on her son...then a few days later his grandma asked him and he gave her the phone smh)
I mean unfortunately, if I call the police, they can possibly press charges, but what I'm hoping is, that he'll be afraid enough and just admit he took it, or possibly one of this kids saw him and they'll say something..... Shoot, his lil brother might've even seen the stuff around the house so...that's what I'm hoping for.
Also, I have to pay for my locks being changed and if he DID take my stuff, I want there to be a report so I can make sure his mom has a reason to pay me back.
Am I being petty tho? that's what somebody said but I feel like if we keep "protecting" these kids, they won't ever learn to respect other peoples stuff and that's how their asses end up in prison when they become an adult...never held accountable as a child, when it's still ok to "mess up"
Quoting Ronique1989:
Call the cops so that lil devil can learn his lesson. His family is encouraging his behavior. He'll be in jail by the age of 18 of he doesn't get a wakeup call asap. And never leave your stuff out again
Man, and it has to be a kid or a crackhead, cuz they took the camera...but no charger, camera batteries dont last that long LOL AND my Laptop was over there WITH the charger, nobody touched it! Oh and the cash that was in my purse...was STILL there! debit cards, all of that. right there! smh, one of his older cousins is in jail right now for shooting somebody. They treated him the same way, at 13, they realized he was outta control, but it was WAYYYYY too late. He's 18 now, locked up for who knows how long. The other brother ( he's way older) he's 24 just now getting his life back on track after a drug charge.
Girl, you better call the po po! If you dont he is probably going to do it to some one else!
Quoting 4kings1queen:
I dont uphold wrong doing. But you only THINK he did and you have no proof. If you know for sure,call the cops. If not,just tell him to get away from you. Watch your stuff and call it a lost.
but that's what i'm thinking, if they question everyone that was there ( cuz it's not many people) and 80% of them are kids..if any of them know something they should break and fess up..they act tough but most of em still respect authority of that level.
I'm gonna call the non emergency number in the AM and see what my options are. The thing is, if I fill out the police report and it's filed and then we find out he DID steal it, it's no longer up to me if they press charges, but if they question him and he fesses up, they ask me if I want to press charges and if I don't I just fill out a drop form and it's over and done...
Quoting Hottmomma607:
But unless there's proof? Not sure if the police would be able to do anything?
Quoting kandipie22:Girl, you better call the po po! If you dont he is probably going to do it to some one else!
I'm super hurt tho, cuz I've known all these kids most of their lives...but we had a lady have her iphone stolen from the counting room, again something STUPID..you're in a room full of MONEY and you steal a phone that has GPS tracking on it? she never told us who took her phone tho but her husband went right to so and so's house and took her phone back lol
now I know why my mom told me when I got caught stealing that I had to be stupid smh.
Even if other were thinking I was being a bitch I don't care I would still call because that is your personal belongs and he could have taken them, house/car keys you don't mess with those two things, a camera isn't as bad just sentimental....they making it look like they did so you have reason
This picture will stay with her for the rest of her life
- MandiFuego
on Sep. 22, 2012 at 4:25 PM