Nortonics
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I've been extremely pissed for the last 3 days now - here's the story:
Just moved into a beautiful new construction home about 6 months ago. Got away from the Minneapolis, MN metro area after 20 years and moved 30 miles North - one big reason being the crime problem of Murderapolis.
As such, the neighborhood around my new home is full of construction contractors that are building no less than a dozen other custom homes in the vicinity, including the house right next door.
So I go out to may garage last Wednesday and need to use the custom 'Gorilla' ladder that's up against the wall near the garage door - similar to a 'Little Giant' ladder. So what do I find but an empty spot where it used to sit. Are ya getting the idea yet? Yup, some $#%^@# decided that they need my personal property more than I did, and they took it upon themselves to trespass my private property during daylight hours while the garage door was open and my family was at home and steal that ladder. Words alone cannot express how extremely mad I was at that moment, and still am presently.
It's a damn-near gimme' that the person responsible was one of the contractors working right next door that slithered over to my house at an angle where no windows faced that direction in order to remove that rather large 5 ft to 19 ft size ladder that weighs about 50 lbs and quickly throw it into their truck. Certainly nobody walking down the street was going to go unnoticed trying to walk away with such a large item.
Went to the construction foreman that oversees the entire area the next morning to express just incredibly how mad I was, and demanded that he do something about it. Decent guy - been acquainted with him since the time of looking in this neighborhood back 6 months ago. He's sending out letters to all the contracting businesses that he deals with detailing the issue. Other than that, there's not a whole lot more he can do. I also went on to let him know that he'd best talk to all his contractors that they best not even set one foot onto my property in any fashion as my warning has been provided, and that if anybody would like to go against that and I witness it I will personally be all over the individual(s) and they will be leaving the site in an Ambulance. Further, I warned that if I catch anybody underneath the roof of my home, be it in the garage or otherwise, they could very possibly have about a 50/50 chance of taking a .45 right between the eyes - God help them if they so much are carrying a hammer or some other tool in their hand if I catch them under my roof.
At this stage I could care-a-less about the value of the stolen property. More-so, I want the ass of whomever did this, and I want them BAD - REALLY BAD.
So I'm sitting there stewing over what I might be able to do, rather than just sitting on my thumbs and falling over dead. Obviously the Police took my report, and I'm just about certain that strategy won't produce jack for results.
One thing I determined that might be useful is to pit contractors against contractors. As such I've written up a single page notice that details a reward for information resulting in the identification and conviction of the person responsible - a $1000 reward, of which I'm fully prepared to pay, and would be extremely happy to do so if someone can hand me the info needed. Just walked around yesterday to all the contractors on the job sites in the area and passed these out. And let me tell ya, each and every one of the guys I spoke with understands just how pissed I am, and just how far I'll go to find the person responsible. They looked at me and could see the fire in my eyes - I could tell because in every instance they all took a step back and realized that I'm so pissed about the matter that they don't want to be crossing my path in any way that could put them in the reticule of my sights. I figure that $1000 is enough money to entertain a contractor to narc on fellow contractor - I'd love for that to happen. Even figured out a way that they could narc 'em out without even having to identify their-selves.
Today I'm planning to place these ads in mailboxes of all the neighbors in the vicinity as well, for a couple of reasons. One, to inform them of the problem so that they can take appropriate action so that they hopefully won't have to go through the same thing. Two, so that maybe they'll put additional pressure on the National Construction Company responsible for this site to do something more to keep them protected from the contractors they send to this job site.
It goes without saying that this issue has increased my blood pressure to new heights. How dare some schmuck invade my house, especially when people are in it, including my wife and two young sons.
I may never find conclusion to this issue, but at least I'm doing more than nothing. And regardless, I'm sure I'll get over it, but I can't help but feel some real genuine anger over having to put up with this kind of crap after all I've done to get away from such problems. I'm certain that once all the construction is complete within the next 6 months and all the contractors are gone the chances of issues like this happening again in this neck of the woods will be extremely unlikely. And I must also say that I'm sure that 95% of these guys are truly excellent people, employees and workers - unfortunately the 5% just tarnished the reputation of everybody though.
So gimme' your take on the issue. I'm sure I'll be hearing some responses about how to cool my jets before I get myself into trouble, and that's just fine - maybe I need to. Just be sure you fully put yourself into my shoes when you think what you'd do, or do differently. Maybe this is more of a rant post, to help me get it out of my system with the aid writing out my thoughts and receiving some constructive criticism.
Thanks for listening...
Just moved into a beautiful new construction home about 6 months ago. Got away from the Minneapolis, MN metro area after 20 years and moved 30 miles North - one big reason being the crime problem of Murderapolis.
As such, the neighborhood around my new home is full of construction contractors that are building no less than a dozen other custom homes in the vicinity, including the house right next door.
So I go out to may garage last Wednesday and need to use the custom 'Gorilla' ladder that's up against the wall near the garage door - similar to a 'Little Giant' ladder. So what do I find but an empty spot where it used to sit. Are ya getting the idea yet? Yup, some $#%^@# decided that they need my personal property more than I did, and they took it upon themselves to trespass my private property during daylight hours while the garage door was open and my family was at home and steal that ladder. Words alone cannot express how extremely mad I was at that moment, and still am presently.
It's a damn-near gimme' that the person responsible was one of the contractors working right next door that slithered over to my house at an angle where no windows faced that direction in order to remove that rather large 5 ft to 19 ft size ladder that weighs about 50 lbs and quickly throw it into their truck. Certainly nobody walking down the street was going to go unnoticed trying to walk away with such a large item.
Went to the construction foreman that oversees the entire area the next morning to express just incredibly how mad I was, and demanded that he do something about it. Decent guy - been acquainted with him since the time of looking in this neighborhood back 6 months ago. He's sending out letters to all the contracting businesses that he deals with detailing the issue. Other than that, there's not a whole lot more he can do. I also went on to let him know that he'd best talk to all his contractors that they best not even set one foot onto my property in any fashion as my warning has been provided, and that if anybody would like to go against that and I witness it I will personally be all over the individual(s) and they will be leaving the site in an Ambulance. Further, I warned that if I catch anybody underneath the roof of my home, be it in the garage or otherwise, they could very possibly have about a 50/50 chance of taking a .45 right between the eyes - God help them if they so much are carrying a hammer or some other tool in their hand if I catch them under my roof.
At this stage I could care-a-less about the value of the stolen property. More-so, I want the ass of whomever did this, and I want them BAD - REALLY BAD.
So I'm sitting there stewing over what I might be able to do, rather than just sitting on my thumbs and falling over dead. Obviously the Police took my report, and I'm just about certain that strategy won't produce jack for results.
One thing I determined that might be useful is to pit contractors against contractors. As such I've written up a single page notice that details a reward for information resulting in the identification and conviction of the person responsible - a $1000 reward, of which I'm fully prepared to pay, and would be extremely happy to do so if someone can hand me the info needed. Just walked around yesterday to all the contractors on the job sites in the area and passed these out. And let me tell ya, each and every one of the guys I spoke with understands just how pissed I am, and just how far I'll go to find the person responsible. They looked at me and could see the fire in my eyes - I could tell because in every instance they all took a step back and realized that I'm so pissed about the matter that they don't want to be crossing my path in any way that could put them in the reticule of my sights. I figure that $1000 is enough money to entertain a contractor to narc on fellow contractor - I'd love for that to happen. Even figured out a way that they could narc 'em out without even having to identify their-selves.
Today I'm planning to place these ads in mailboxes of all the neighbors in the vicinity as well, for a couple of reasons. One, to inform them of the problem so that they can take appropriate action so that they hopefully won't have to go through the same thing. Two, so that maybe they'll put additional pressure on the National Construction Company responsible for this site to do something more to keep them protected from the contractors they send to this job site.
It goes without saying that this issue has increased my blood pressure to new heights. How dare some schmuck invade my house, especially when people are in it, including my wife and two young sons.
I may never find conclusion to this issue, but at least I'm doing more than nothing. And regardless, I'm sure I'll get over it, but I can't help but feel some real genuine anger over having to put up with this kind of crap after all I've done to get away from such problems. I'm certain that once all the construction is complete within the next 6 months and all the contractors are gone the chances of issues like this happening again in this neck of the woods will be extremely unlikely. And I must also say that I'm sure that 95% of these guys are truly excellent people, employees and workers - unfortunately the 5% just tarnished the reputation of everybody though.
So gimme' your take on the issue. I'm sure I'll be hearing some responses about how to cool my jets before I get myself into trouble, and that's just fine - maybe I need to. Just be sure you fully put yourself into my shoes when you think what you'd do, or do differently. Maybe this is more of a rant post, to help me get it out of my system with the aid writing out my thoughts and receiving some constructive criticism.
Thanks for listening...