Jigaboo

Ok. Ok. Ok. okokok. -That's for you, April.

Yesterday, I got a call from our answering service saying that one of our vacant rental houses had been broken into. I was completely shocked because this particular house is in a very good neighborhood and we have never had any problems over there. Anyway, so Brad and I rush over there to meet the police. When we get to the house, the front door deadbolt has been pryed off and a paint roller had been disassembled (the house is in the process of being painted, and the painters had just left to go to another job.) Apparently, a little kid was trying to be funny in front of his friends and broke into the house. I told the police officer that I most certainly wanted to press charges if they caught the person. After we made a police report, Brad and I left while the officer drove around and asked questions to all the little kids that were outside at the time. WELL, I just received a phone call from a lady named "Cam" who said that she was the mother of the child that broke into our house and she just wanted to ask me "if I could find it in my heart to not press charges against her poor 11 year old son. She is just a single mother trying to make it with six kids. He was just messing around and he didn't really DO anything." Ok, #1 the kid pryed the deadbolt off with a screwdriver. Have you ever tried that? It takes some skill, so obviously this isn't the first time the kid has done this. #2, why yes, he most certainly did DO something. He caused me to stop doing laundry and my husband to stop cutting the grass at 6:oopm last night and drive from Moundville to Tuscaloosa JUST to screw a deadbolt back on a door. #3 the kid needs to be taught a lesson. Send him to juvi for a little while and see if he thinks it's funny to break into another person's home. Burglary, by the way, is a felony. #4 the MOTHER needs to be taught a lesson. If she would have kept her legs closed, she wouldn't be stuck with six kids to take care of. Maybe after her little jigaboo son actually gets repremanded for his actions, he will straighten up and won't end up like all the other jigaboos walking around selling drugs, sex and alcohol in Alberta and West End every morning as I drive through checking rental property. SO in conclusion, I WILL be pressing charges. And in 10 years when the kid has taken the right path in life, you can come find me, and thank me.