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February 11, 2011 at 5:10 pm #597920
MBParticipantJust wanted to put the word out that there was an attempted burglary yesterday evening, Feb. 10th, around 6:45/7pm at our neighbors house in Highland Park (12th, between Cloverdale and Thistle). A neighbor noticed unknown people in the next driveway as he was leaving his own house and knowing no one was home, he decided to turn around and check it out. I don’t know all the details, but he got yet another neighbor guy to help out and after confronting the men and being told they were “just looking at a house,” neighbor 1 called police while neighbor 2 ended up chasing them off. The only damage was to the front gate that the would-be robbers kicked in (not sure why). From what I understand, there was a tall man in his 50s and a younger man in camo pants (both caucasian I believe) and they got away in what was described as a white dodge truck. Not sure if they were looking for tools outside or to ultimately break in. Props to my neighbors for paying attention AND doing something about it! Cops “took a report.” Keep an eye out people!
-MB
February 11, 2011 at 5:48 pm #717232
inactiveMemberWas it an older truck? If so, I saw it heading south on 9th at Cloverdale right around that time. Didn’t catch who was in the cab though.
Good work!
February 11, 2011 at 5:50 pm #717233
MBParticipantNot sure, I’ll try and find out.
February 11, 2011 at 10:01 pm #717234
MBParticipantI was hoping this would make the main page, but alas…it seems to have been overlooked. Hoping a few people will read this at least and be on the lookout for a random white truck and a couple of snooping men…not so much to be caught for the incident above, but more to prevent a round two on someone else’s house. I sure am sick of crap like this, especially when I was home and didn’t hear a thing. Makes me weary of creeps snooping in my yard and me being none the wiser…
February 11, 2011 at 10:07 pm #717235
MargLMemberDid you email editor@westseattleblog.com directly? Sometimes they don’t have time to review all the posts on the forums but an email would bring it to their attention.
February 11, 2011 at 10:09 pm #717236
MBParticipantYes, I did last night a little bit after it happened ;) Oh well, I am mainly hoping to let as many people as possible know. We called as many people as we could on the block watch list.
February 12, 2011 at 8:12 am #717237
MBParticipantBump…
February 12, 2011 at 8:44 am #717238
inactiveMemberMB –
If any of you know who your neighboring blockwatch captains are, if you haven’t already done so, give those folks a jingle too.
Has your BW joined the West Seattle Blockwatch Captains’ Network yet? If you aren’t the captain and don’t know, please ask your captain to represent your block with the group. There are currently about 200 WS blockwatch groups who have joined and we anticipate the group will be growing in the next few months.
The goal is to find all the BW Captains so they can support each other and share information. There are a number of ways to contact WSBWCN listed on the blog for the group:
http://wsblockwatchnet.wordpress.com/
Again, way to be on it for your neighbors! Nice!
February 12, 2011 at 3:43 pm #717239
miwsParticipantMB, You might want to try sending another e-mail to WSB.
I believe TR has mentioned before that they sometimes get hung up in a Spam filter or such.
Mike
February 12, 2011 at 9:35 pm #717240
MBParticipantThanks guys, good suggestions!
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