newshound

kind of unbelievable, but this morning the side gate  (with the wire latch still inserted in it) was wide open!  wow, appears this guy is rather determined rather than some wandering drunk as earlier believed   (I assume it's the same guy; hard to imagine the coincidence being anything else)  -  he had to really shove that gate latch open to push past the wire in the hole-    yes, police report filed-  and am off to Home Depot to buy locks for all the gates on the property  

oh my;  I was sitting in my living room at about 8:20pm tonight when someone turned the handle on our back door, attempting to walk into the house-  it took a second to register; just seemed surreal, I suppose, before it dawned on me that indeed someone had attempted to open the door-  thank goodness I always lock it when I walk in!   I bolted out of the house in time to see a man walking thru our side gate  (faces 54th St.)  and when I began yelling at him that I was calling the police, he said he was  "just trying to s

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