In this day and age of keep your eyes and wits about you.
If you were driving to the bank or store and saw very close to your property a police presence then coming back a short time later it was even bigger. Would you stop and ask- I live right over there- my property runs right along the powerlines here my horses are out in their whole area--- "are we safe"???????????
Senario 2
There are 2 people taking photos of the houses along your strech of road- a week or so earlier a neighbor calls and says oh did you see the guy taking photos of peoples houses-- no where is he now
then 2 days later you see a bicycle crammed into the barriers by the bridge and it has saddlebags with
stuff strewn all over the road and hanging out of it.
This happened here and I waited almost an hr after looking all around my property to make sure no one was
walking around down the bottom of my hill popping bicycle quick to grab camera or something to take a photo of who knows what - the turkeys going thru or something.(I could see myself someplace wanting a stupid photo of something and running to get it leaving a mess strewn about and bicycle just crammed )
I walked up to the couple taking photos and asked can I help you? Oh we are just taking photos of
decorations (that does not add up only my house and one 5-6 down had any decorations) they took photos
of all the houses and walked up and took photos of train station too and that was not decorated either.
and neither of us had world class decorations.
The police came when I called on the bike and said yes this does not look right at all . and I told him about the neighbor telling me about someone taking photos- he said that happened to him and he walked out and asked
and he said its was a realtor taking photos of "comps" - the cop told him you need to have some Ident on you
and look like a realtor not a bum off the street.
He did tell me to call if you ever see anything like that.
I did call on the people taking photos cop came and talked to them_ they were in station waiting for train.
They claimed to be foreign student oh "just taking photos" cop said yes you were totally right to call.
The police presence the other day when I drove up and did ask am I "safe" one laughed and said
"SAFER THAN YOU HAVE EVER BEEN"
it did turn out they were gathering for police dog training and also were not upset that I did stop and ask.
Two years ago here twice in same week looked out and all sorts of police in station train being stopped way short of station commuters turned away. and one day it was bomb threat and couple days later
it was suspicious un-attended package!!
It does make me a bit nervous now.
I also when starting out on ride 2 days ago saw hunter walking down the street - flag him down to let him know there are horses/ goats nearby.
We talked for a few min he was ok not a jerk at all. He said he knows about the horses/goats. His tree stand is far far out and faces away from our direction.
If you were driving to the bank or store and saw very close to your property a police presence then coming back a short time later it was even bigger. Would you stop and ask- I live right over there- my property runs right along the powerlines here my horses are out in their whole area--- "are we safe"???????????
Senario 2
There are 2 people taking photos of the houses along your strech of road- a week or so earlier a neighbor calls and says oh did you see the guy taking photos of peoples houses-- no where is he now
then 2 days later you see a bicycle crammed into the barriers by the bridge and it has saddlebags with
stuff strewn all over the road and hanging out of it.
This happened here and I waited almost an hr after looking all around my property to make sure no one was
walking around down the bottom of my hill popping bicycle quick to grab camera or something to take a photo of who knows what - the turkeys going thru or something.(I could see myself someplace wanting a stupid photo of something and running to get it leaving a mess strewn about and bicycle just crammed )
I walked up to the couple taking photos and asked can I help you? Oh we are just taking photos of
decorations (that does not add up only my house and one 5-6 down had any decorations) they took photos
of all the houses and walked up and took photos of train station too and that was not decorated either.
and neither of us had world class decorations.
The police came when I called on the bike and said yes this does not look right at all . and I told him about the neighbor telling me about someone taking photos- he said that happened to him and he walked out and asked
and he said its was a realtor taking photos of "comps" - the cop told him you need to have some Ident on you
and look like a realtor not a bum off the street.
He did tell me to call if you ever see anything like that.
I did call on the people taking photos cop came and talked to them_ they were in station waiting for train.
They claimed to be foreign student oh "just taking photos" cop said yes you were totally right to call.
The police presence the other day when I drove up and did ask am I "safe" one laughed and said
"SAFER THAN YOU HAVE EVER BEEN"
it did turn out they were gathering for police dog training and also were not upset that I did stop and ask.
Two years ago here twice in same week looked out and all sorts of police in station train being stopped way short of station commuters turned away. and one day it was bomb threat and couple days later
it was suspicious un-attended package!!
It does make me a bit nervous now.
I also when starting out on ride 2 days ago saw hunter walking down the street - flag him down to let him know there are horses/ goats nearby.
We talked for a few min he was ok not a jerk at all. He said he knows about the horses/goats. His tree stand is far far out and faces away from our direction.