You never quite know who is watching your house - A week or so ago, I saw a car driving up and down the road very slowly and it did this several days in a row. It definitely was not a normal thing. I mentioned it to Mary Kay and she told me she noticed the car also. She has a good view up and down the road and said she saw it stop up at Larry Youngs just up the road and take a picture of the barn. I haven't seen the car since, but was determined the next time I saw it, I was going to jump in my car, follow it and get its license plate.
Just down the road from me also on a couple of different occasions, I saw an out of state car parked with its blinkers on just before the Wilkins/Shepardson Hallow/Fletcher Road intersection. Again, I should have stopped and got the license plate number and turned it in, however, I didn't. One of the local neighbors, however, did and it was discovered that the car was there doing a traffic count.
Back when Maryann died, JoAnne Wilkins contacted me and offered to house sit for me during the funeral. I had not given any thought to that, but that is an ideal time for people to do a home invasion if they wish and clean out the house. Not that I have anything of value at my house, but am glad she thought of it as I do have a number of things with sentimental value that could not be replaced.
Last night on Channel 3, they had the following story about a house being ransacked after a guy died out in Williston:
Home invasions often touch a very personal nerve.
"We thought we lived in a town where you didn't have to be concerned about locking your doors," said Debbie Lawrence of Williston.
Nancy Bushey and Debbie Lawrence just buried their father. And they believe on the day of Peter Senna's funeral someone broke into his house -- stealing a large amount of cash, coins and collectible guns.
"Our dad worked hard for the things that he had," said Lawrence, "He's lived in his house for 84 years. He's been in this community all his life. It's just such a blow that this would happen to him. It's just devastating."
Last Tuesday Debbie entered her father's house in Williston to get a ball cap to bury him in. Her childhood home was untouched. The family then returned to the home on Saturday to find it had been ransacked.
"My father's house not only gotten broken into," said Nancy Bushey of Williston, "We lost our dad. We were going through grieving with my dad and now we've lost items that we aren't going to get back."
