I came downstairs around 4am to make breakfast and one of the 3L’s was watching TV.

We had the “Oh shit you’re still up? Oh shit you’re all ready up?” conversation and then he went to bed.

I made breakfast, watched the news, then left for the library around 5am.

Sometime between 5am and 7:30am (when the others woke up) someone ripped open our screen, opened the window, and slid into the house.

The burglar stole the 3L’s backpack and one of the 1L’s bikes.

Now 5am is a weird time, even for a crackhead, to break into a house.

The 3L thinks the robber was outside for a while and waited for the TV to turn off. Which means that the burglar was looming around and watched me leave. Eek.

Police reports were filed, the 3L already has a new backpack, and we triple-check the windows every night.

Okay, so I have been burgled.

The evidence:

1. The fridge door was ajar when I got home.  All my food was warm, including the quarter gallon of milk.  (I know I'm not supposed to cry over spilled milk, but what about stolen and/or spoiled milk?  Is that okay?)
2. My camera is missing, and since I live alone it should be in the last place I put it.
3. My food box is disorganized, and there is bits of beef jerky on the floor.

Now that I know, I feel so violated and dirty.  Even though this place doesn't feel very homey, it was my place, and I don't like that someone else came in and had their way with it.  I don't know, but I find this whole situation very upsetting.

And yes, I know this is the second camera that's gotten stolen in the past 2 months.  Perhaps I shouldn't own a camera.  At least until I find a new place.

As a result of pleading for help and reporting what was done to my family, our properties and me, Mayor Alan Autry had the Dept. of Public Works issue a Restraining Order against me. They committed perjury to discredit their own records, which verify exactly what they did - destruction and haphazard patching of our properties in order to illegally alter the city sewer/water system. Regardless of the loss of our properties as a result of this, suspected homicide of my family members, poisoning and attempted murder of me - death threats followed.

RECAP:  In preparation for what was coming, there were ongoing sewage back spills.  The risk analyst showed up after these events and without any investigation, always deemed this to be caused by "negligence in sewer maintenance."  In reality, sewer and water lines were being cut and altered.  Her response to the ensuing illness, respiratory, infections, amputation, death among my family and my next-door-neighbor was, "not my problem." She denied taking the countless photographs of belongings that were stolen/switched.  Out of 250+/- photographs, she claimed to have only 14+/-.  (Half were taken next door!)  Not ONE photograph of the reason she claimed to be coming out; not ONE of the damages.  She conspired with my property insurance adjuster in a manner that left me unable to file a claim for ANYTHING that took place - a situation that continues to this very day.

Wilbert Swieso, a former employee of the City of Fresno, is running a fake work crew that accompanies Public Works. He laughs at the City of Fresno, referring to the very people who are covering up for him as "easy" and his "puppets."  Allowing them to believe they know EVERYTHING he is doing, is the key to his success.  He conspires with their employees in carrying out major alterations throughout the city, and having records altered to cover it up.  Put altered records in front of city personnel, and that is what they stand behind.

Mr. Swieso is also an insurance agent / estate planner who preys on clients.  In my case, he had fraudulent legal documents prepared for my family's properties, appointing himself in charge "should something happen to me."  He enrolled me in a fraudulent insurance policy, appointing himself "beneficiary."  He coerced me into appointing him "beneficiary" of my regular life insurance policy.  Mr. Winslow told me I would be meeting the others, including his former wife, "in another world." 

With the risk analyst lying and setting people up for total annihilation, Winslow and Swieso step in and take over.  Click here to see Mr. Winslow's trail:  http://tinyurl.com/5h3dh7

This same risk analyst was the last person seen speaking to the owner of the Laundromat, across the alley from me.  Mr. Winslow said he would be taking over the Laundromat as well.  The owner was never seen again.  New deed looks forged; new owner lives next door to Jeffry C. Winslow!   

These people have many methods of "removing" people from their property.  Upon being vacated, altering of the city water system ensues.  With "planted" neighbors who rotate as this goes on, there are no complaints or witnesses to wrongdoing.  Structures are quickly rebuilt without permits or inspections.  Plat/parcel maps are altered to line up to the new measurements.  This is why there are no older records of Fresno, CA.  

My neighbor, across the street, was shot/killed when this took place on his property.  His neighbors claimed that they saw nothing unusual - to this day they deny the major construction that took place.  These same neighbors moved around the corner and said the same thing about my family's properties as well as the Laundromat!  As a matter of interest, the attorney (David A. Silva) who conspired with Mr. Swieso in the preparation of fraudulent legal documents for my family's properties, was the same attorney for the deceased man's estate!  Coincidence or not, when all of this began to be uncovered, the attorney closed his office and was never seen again - since disbarred.

Residents of Fresno are being annihilated / eliminated in order to "secretly" alter the water system.  According to Swieso and Winslow - WATER DIVERSION!

According to TMZ, this goomba and three others presumable like him made off with $7 million --that's $7,000,000-- worth of jewelry after breaking into Floyd Mayweather's Las Vegas home.

This man and his cohort's are said to have broke in to Mayweather's mansion through his bedroom window while he was out.

The moral of this story: Don't have $7 million worth of jewelry just chillin' in your home. Invest in a safe or panic room disguised as a bookcase or guard dog or something. Get the Sloman shield. SOMETHING!

Bonus Quote:

...and then licked the victim’s ear while she was sleeping

28 August 2008

PLAYING the Internet game - Second Life - may have led her to face another kind of life - in prison.

Kimberly Jernigan, 33, started a virtual relationship with a man on Second Life. There, she played as a female avatar and he a lion.

And when the relationship failed, she allegedly tried to kidnap him twice, reported ABC news. Jernigan, 33, who is separated from her husband, met the man a few months ago.

A US news station reported she was distressed when her Second Life relationship with the 52-year-old man from Delaware ended when the pair met face-to-face.

'She started this virtual relationship and she wasn't ready to break it off,' said police spokesman Mr Trinidad Navarro.

'She had difficulty distinguishing between the virtual relationship and a real-life relationship,' he said.

Her first attempt was several weeks ago, said police.

According to police, Jernigan's virtual ex claims that she tried to kidnap him s outside his office in Pennsylvania.

'She encountered him in the parking lot and pointed a gun at him and told him to get in the car,' said Mr Navarro. 'He went off running.'

It was unclear if Jernigan was ever charged in connection with that incident. In her second attempt, she returned to Delaware disguised as a postal worker to try and find his home address - which, after four days of searching, she did.

She made her second attempt last week.

The ex-boyfriend called the police and said he escaped from his apartment because a person who he believed was Jernigan was inside with what appeared to be a Taser.

Police said they found Jernigan's dog - bound with duct tape - locked inside the apartment bathroom. They found a pair of handcuffs outside his bedroom window.

Online addiction

Jernigan faces charges of attempted kidnapping, burglary and aggravated menacing and is being held on a US$65,000 ($92,000) bond.

Her husband, Mr Michael Jernigan, said both he and his wife had become involved in online relationships through Second Life.

'We had an agreement to have a somewhat open relationship and actually being involved in a game online was a very safe way to do that,' said Mr Jernigan.

But, he said, Jernigan soon spent all her free time playing the game. 'I always knew that she could be obsessive, and that type of thing, but I never thought it would go as far as this,' he said.

Mental health experts say Internet use can progress into a form of addiction, at times leading to destructive consequences.

Dr Bankole Johnson, chair of the department of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia, said people who become so wrapped up in online worlds that they have difficulty distinguishing fantasy and reality, often have pre-existing mental illnesses. 'What people develop is a delusional idea that the (virtual) person is real,' he said.

 “As little as possible.” I paused to brush the rain out of my eyes. “Did you get a look at the guy?”

In a belated celebration of the Supreme Court ruling which allowed residents of the District of Columbia to own handguns, I thought I would post this heartwarming story of a granny that was packing and how she protected her neck and possibly stopped a burglary crime ring with her all powerful .22 revolver.

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SPRINGHILL TWP. - State police said an 85-year-old Lake Lynn woman is being credited with stopping a would-be thief after she caught the teen in her home Sunday afternoon.

Trooper Christian D. Lieberum said Leda Smith held the unidentified intruder at gunpoint until police arrived.

He said the incident began around 3 p.m. when a 17-year-old Point Marion boy broke into Smith's home on Old Lake Lynn Road.

Smith said she had just come home from church when she noticed a door open at her home and an outer door broken.

Lieberum said Smith immediately realized someone was in her home and decided to retrieve her handgun and went looking for the intruder.

"I saw him move by my keyboard near the wall but I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Smith said, noting that she started keeping the .22-caliber revolver by her bed after a burglary at a neighboring home several weeks ago.

Smith said she then found the boy hiding and confronted him.

"I said, 'What are you doing in my house?'" Smith said during an interview Monday with WPXI-TV, Channel 11 in Pittsburgh, a news partner with the Herald-Standard. "He just kept saying he didn't do it."

Smith ordered the teen to turn around and not to run and then had him pick up the telephone and dial 911.

She then ordered the boy to give her the telephone after placing the call and she told dispatchers about the intruder.

Officials from 911 stayed on the telephone with Smith as she had the boy lay facedown and spread-eagled on the floor.

She said it didn't take emergency crews long to respond.

Lieberum said Smith continued to hold the teen at gunpoint until state police arrived at the home.

"It was exciting," Smith said of the incident. "I just hope I broke up the ring because they have been hitting a lot of places around here."

Lieberum said the boy will be charged with attempted burglary and other offenses in Fayette County Juvenile Court.

News-Miner article

Fort Mills (S.C.) Times brief

POINT MARION, Pennsylvania (AP) -- An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said.

"I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Leda Smith said.

Smith heard someone break into her home Sunday afternoon and grabbed the .22-caliber revolver she had been keeping by her bed since a neighbor's home was burglarized a few weeks ago.

"I said 'What are you doing in my house?' He just kept saying he didn't do it," Smith said.

After the 17-year-old boy called 911, Smith kept holding the gun on him until state police arrived at her home in Springhill Township, about 45 miles south of Pittsburgh.

Friday night, there's not much going on call wise when CCTV sees someone breaking into a house.  Because it's nice and quiet we actually manage to send quite a few units to the scene and we know he hasn't gone far.  We contain the scene and have most of the escape routes covered when we're told he's making off towards the lane we're covering.

We start walking up towards where he's supposed to be when we see someone talking on his mobile, trying that bit too hard to look natural even though he's sweating heavily and out of breath.  Using the old, "excuse me mate, you haven't seen anyone runing past here" trick, we're close enough to him to stick the cuffs on before he has a chance to kick off.  CCTV confirms he's the chap and I've swifted my first burglar in about four months.

Beautiful job, professionally executed and I was just lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. There's nothing like catching them (nearly) red-handed.

And this was only the start of the weekend...

POINT MARION, Pa. (AP) -- An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said. "I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Leda Smith said.

Smith heard someone break into her home Sunday afternoon and grabbed the .22-caliber revolver she had been keeping by her bed since a neighbor's home was burglarized a few weeks ago.

"I said 'What are you doing in my house?' He just kept saying he didn't do it," Smith said.

After the 17-year-old boy called 911, Smith kept holding the gun on him until state police arrived at her home in Springhill Township, about 45 miles south of Pittsburgh.

The boy will be charged with attempted burglary and related offenses in juvenile court, Trooper Christian Lieberum said. He was not identified because of his age.

"It was exciting," Smith said. "I just hope I broke up the (burglary) ring because they have been hitting a lot of places around here."

An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said. "I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Leda Smith said.

Smith heard someone break into her home Sunday afternoon and grabbed the .22-caliber revolver she had been keeping by her bed since a neighbor's home was burglarized a few weeks ago.

"I said 'What are you doing in my house?' He just kept saying he didn't do it," Smith said.

After the 17-year-old boy called 911, Smith kept holding the gun on him until state police arrived at her home in Springhill Township, about 45 miles south of Pittsburgh.

Via The Locker Room

Earlier in the day, as it happens, I had cast my dark green eyes over this post (courtesy of ‘Fed by Birds’), which put into my mind an anecdote regarding the late Johannes Speyer, which I proceeded to declaim to the assembled company. It was, I think, well received. Here, for your edification, is a shortened version of the fascinating tale.

One afternoon in nineteen seventy something, Professor Johannes Speyer was burgled. They didn’t take much, but what they did take was of great sentimental value. An un-read copy of Tristram Shandy, bound in silver and encrusted with pearls. His grandmother's pocket watch, which went from five to six - and back again. A golf-ball paperweight, given to him by a girl whose name he could never remember (though she was, he told me once, the 'love of his life'). Lastly a pair of cufflinks, on which someone had inscribed Coleridge's Kubla Khan in miniature. All these were taken.

Much more might have been lost, however, had Speyer not installed - at great personal expense - a complex security system, supported by a shrieking siren, loud enough to alert all of his close neighbours (of which he had none). Still, the noise did at least put off the thieves, who luckily did not linger long enough to discover Speyer's collection of late nineteenth century Polish first editions (from Pawel Plinsk to Jan Konoczeska).

Nevertheless, Speyer took the burglary badly. Milk-starved kittens have moped and mourned less than he. He tried to forget - but it was hard to get the whole thing out of his head. Whenever he found himself on the cusp of willing it all away, he was brought back to the source again. Something kept bringing it back to him. And that something was a magpie.

The magpie had, it turned, been present at the scene of the crime. I am not, of course, suggesting that it was a thieving magpie; nor I am blaming the bird for failing to contact the relevant authorities. I will, as it happens, forgive any bird for standing idly by. This was not, however, an especially idle magpie. On the contrary, this magpie seems to have found plently to do during the robbery - not least picking up and memorising the sound of the burglar alarm, which it proceeded to sing it back to Speyer every morning for the next nine months. Every morning. On the dot.

That was it. He had had enough. The security siren magpie was driving him mad. It was hard to get away from the idea that the bird was, to coin a colloquialism, 'rubbing it in'. Something had to be done.

I don't know how precious you are about books as objects, but Speyer was one of those critics by no means averse to 'a bit of mud on the spine'. So long as they found their way back to the shelf eventually, he liked the idea of his books 'going on journeys'.  An unbattered book was to him a sad thing; like old men or women who have never really lived. It was therefore with little reluctance (and, perhaps, sense) that he chose as his magpie-murdering-weapon-of-choice a English-German lexicon.

The most extraordinary thing about all this is, of course, that it worked. Who would have thought a magpie could be defeated by an elderly academic tossing a lexicon? You probably underestimate the size of the lexicon - and the doziness of the magpie (who was probably 'getting on a bit' itself). Nevertheless, one must still hand it to Speyer. Good shot professor!

(n.b. this blog does not support the killing of magpies with lexicons)