Life in the 'hood

[darkemeralds]

This is kind of unnerving. I came home tonight just before dark to find that the old dishwasher that I've had out on my porch for a couple of months had vanished.

There were dings in my front porch steps. One of my walkway lights was broken. And the heavy, awkward, ancient and not-that-functional dishwasher was gone.

Now, I'd been meaning to get rid of it as soon as I could work up the gumption to get it down the stairs and out to the street, so it's not like I'm sorry to see it go. Someone actually kind of did me a favor. But whoever it was came up to my front porch and stole a big old dishwasher in broad daylight and that's just disturbing.

Comments

[kispexi2.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's not like it could have been stealthily done. It wasn't a council job was it? Maybe a neighbour complained. ;-)

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

*spits coffee*

Hee! No. The house next door is, as an old boyfriend used to put it, "the double-wide" (a manufactured home...aka a big trailer). Across the street, the Alvarezes own two lots, one of them mostly occupied by cars and half-finished outbuildings of dubious purpose. Next to the Alvarezes, the lesbian couple with two kids and two motorcycles are too busy being young and hip to complain about what's on my porch.

So...no. Theft pure and simple. Scrap metal, as roseambr points out a couple of comments downthread. What's next? The wiring?

[kispexi2.livejournal.com]

Guess those of us with dental fillings better not go slack-jawed in repose.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Between the filling-thieves and the mind-controlling radio waves, we're better off just keeping our mouths shut.

[malanai.livejournal.com]

Vandals regularly steal the copper from the library air conditioning units here in Dayton :-(

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Good lord. I've heard of that--I have a brother in law who is a residential construction contractor, and he's had all the wiring stolen out of a house in progress. But an established building? A library?? That's pretty shocking.