Something we all need to keep in mind during tough times........................

[Gino]

This is something which is not easy to write about, for someone going through this, but should be kept in the back of your mind at all times.

A good friend and neighbor of mine just lost his wife to cancer about 3 weeks ago. She was only 57. We've talked to the guy about all kinds of things during her troubled time and after the funeral. Told him he could stop by for anything..... anytime.... and he has on two occasions. I told him right after she passed, that he needs to have someone baby sit the house and he said he has someone for just that while he's running errands and whatnot. My Dad's house was ransacked during my Mother's funeral some 27 years ago and several other people I know, both relatives and friends have had this happen with the same mindset as Tony.... it won't happen to me. Tony, like anyone else in our neighborhood is fully armed and has no worry of shooting intruders for any reason. He told me, ahh, I have great neighbors keeping an eye on things and all my stuff is in safe places. Ain't no one gonna break in my place and get away with it.

Got off the phone this morning with him about something and found out he was robbed over the holiday weekend. Yep. they took $3,000 in cash and all of his keys. He's having the house re-keyed and a kill switch installed in his truck.

There's no remedy or foreseeing this horrible thing in your future, when a close death takes place. You never see clearly, but that doesn't mean the dastardly people out there give a rat's behind for your feelings. They'll take any advantage they can.

Everyone who knows of family or friends going through this, try to advise them of the necessity of this little peace of insurance. Make sure someone is always watching your house and either put surveillance cameras up or install a security system in your house. Now, after the fact, Tony is having an alarm system installed tomorrow and he 's getting some cameras around inside and outside his house, but none of that will get his wife's check money back to him any longer. Money was taken out of his hands from his wife by some really low-life.

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[Pat Whatley]

That's horrible. I thought only realtors scoped out the obituaries for potential prey.

 

[Baz]

This has been going on for a long time.

I remember in the late 80's ... When my grandfather died, in days following, my grandmother started getting "silent" phone calls (where the person on the other end doesn't say anything). For his funeral we had to go out of town for the day. So my parents decided to leave one of our big dogs at my grandmothers home (a 125 pound Akita).

When we got back. You could tell someone had tried to enter the house. The kitchen table which was next to a window was knocked over ... Some of the blinds were shredded and even the front door was cracked in the middle. All of this from the inside. It was as if our dog was trying to attack whatever was trying to come in.

Luckily my grandmother was never harrassed after that.

 

[Marlene]

people suck

 

[Locals Find!]

Really, sad that anyone would stoop to that level.

That's horrible. I thought only realtors scoped out the obituaries for potential prey.

REALTORS shouldn't do that but Real Estate Agents do. Scoping obituaries is for bottom feeders and goes against the Ethical standards of our profession.