Letter writer: Call police about suspicious activity

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I left my house at 8:48 a.m., heading toward a common street that borders my road, and I saw two men who did not look like they belong in the neighborhood walking boldly in the middle of the road toward my house.

I thought to myself that these folks do not belong here, and maybe I should call the Asheville Police Department. Then I thought that this could be an “ist” mindset. So I did not call.

At 9:15 a.m., I am calling 911 because I walk into my house, which is ransacked, and electronics are displaced inside and outside of my open swinging back door. “Are they still here?” is what I was thinking when I called.

If you are CSI junky, I am sure you have dug up all the research about the case, but what the police want and what is the most helpful thing to do is report suspicious behavior and be proactive. If I had talked to those two folks when leaving my neighborhood or called the police to check it out, I would have not been trying to put every cabinet back together in my house.

There is an old proverb that goes, “Many hands make light work”; we can do that for our community. Nextdoor.com worked really well for us, but if anyone sees anything suspicious, call the cops ASAP. And I am not talking about putting the recycling out three days early.

— Name withheld
Asheville

Editor’s note: Xpress usually does not withhold letter writers’ names, but we made an exception in this case because the writer is a victim of a crime.

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3 thoughts on “Letter writer: Call police about suspicious activity

  1. boatrocker

    Hmmm. Victims of NC voting disenfranchisement laws do not have their names withheld.

    Neither do victims of HB2.

    Neither do – oh never mind.

    “two men who did not look like they belong in the neighborhood”- I think you left out “Trump 2016!” and “Portlandia Lives Matter”
    you got robbed- get over it.

    “if you see something, say something” is the mantra for millennial pieces of $%^& who George W, brainwashed with his Patriot Act.
    In 1938 it was called “show me your papers.” Which do you subscribe to?

    When the out of control/over militarized/steroid infused/PTSD cops break into your house with a ‘no knock warrant’ with no justifiable cause- what will they find? Will you welcome them as heroes or acknowledge yourself as the person who ratted on Anne Frank?

  2. luther blissett

    “Nextdoor.com worked really well for us”

    Is that the site where white people go to have conniptions about non-white people Walking While Non-White?

  3. C

    Congratulations, those two comments just turned a Hillary voter into a Trump supporter. Personally, I like the idea of us all drowning together in our shared and common misery ,but yet, we can all know that we did it together.

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