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I would have asked her first, before calling the cops.
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She was definitely stealing from you. You did the right thing, by having the cops get involved you used a intermediary and now have a record of your complaint. Should there be another incident the police can use this for your case. If you had sent your husband over to "resolve the issue" and it escalated it would have muddled the situation.
You should also inform any company that you use for shipping of the situation and possibly rethink your delivery location. We live on a very busy street with a lot of walking traffic i try to always get things delivered to the store for pick up, or delivered to my office or my parents house where i know someone is home most of the day.
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She's a thief! You did the right thing by calling the cops. You can't reason with crazy and she might be on drugs. It's not worth getting hurt over!
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I definitely would have called the cops. If you just went to talk to her then she might think she could get away with it in the future. Hopefully the cops charged her with theft!
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@skipra: You did the right thing. Obviously, someone who is willing to walk over to your steps to steal a carseat has issues!! Some people said they'd make their husbands go over, but that seems a bit unfair (why make him do something you aren't comfortable with).
The ONLY reason I would have hesitated with the cops is that I'm crazy and would wonder if they'd retaliate or something. Again, carseat stealers = weirdos, ha.
Good for you! I hope you don't have any other issues with them ... I mean, you set a really good precedent for what will happen in the future!
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So the good news is that not everyone in our neighborhood is crazy like her! I forgot my wallet in a shopping cart at Trader Joe's this morning and someone turned it in. Stupid of me, but I'm so thankful that MOST people are honest!
@MrsMcD: She obviously knows but didn't do anything last night thankfully!
@Chillybear: Good idea. I'm a SAHM so it's not usually an issue. I must've just missed the delivery while getting DS down for his nap.
@Vegmama: Yeah I was concerned about retaliation that's why I was wondering if I should apologize for the "misunderstanding". I think I'll leave it alone unless she confronts me. We never really interact with these people so hopefully it'll stay that way.
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I would've done the same. Especially since it looks obvious that they stole it based on the evidence. It was delivered to your door step which was confirmed by the delivery company, she was physically holding the box, her motive may have been wanting to steal it because she has a baby and she knew what the contents of the box were, and it had your name/address on the actual box so there's no way she didn't know who it belonged to. Yup, the jury's out and I call stealing!
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I would have called based on their history, if she beat up a cop, what's to stop them from beating up you?
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@skipra: Neighbor disputes can get nasty. (Umm.... someone in my house once called animal control on a neighbor.... yea.....) If your neighbors start to get menacing towards you as a result of this event, don't underestimate the power of a temporary restraining order. But seriously... it sucks to have this kind of drama with your neighbor. If you plan on staying at your house for years to come, you want to be able to enjoy being in your front yard.
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I can't believe she just took it off your porch...when you were home! What nerve! You definitely did the right thing!
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Totally, blatant STEALING! The fact that she came up on your steps and saw you see her and she STILL took it, warranted a call to the cops, IMHO. If she were smarter, she could have turned right back around and said something like "this was kind of in the street and I was just checking whose it was?" and bring it back to you. The act tht she straight up continued to take it in front of you is beyond. And someone who would beat up a police officer? Yeah, I wouldn't want to confront them myself (or my DH). It is really sucky that she is your neighbor.
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I probably would have shouted "oh is that my package?" when I saw the neighbor wiith the box, but I totally would have called the cops to get it back if she didn't respond.
It's good that you're home most of the time for deliveries, maybe mention to your drivers what happened so they can help be more cautious.
Also, if you can afford to, maybe install a camera. Do you have a security system? I am worried for your about retaliation, that sounds like something they might do if they're crazy. (Or maybe it'll work out BETTER and they know you react quickly and won't mess with you again.) I bet they thought you'd contact FedEx, say it never delivered, then the company would send a replacement, and you'd get yours/they'd get one too. You really Fedex/Britax (or whoever you ordered from) should be thanking you!!!
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I think you did the right thing. Especially if you were home alone with LO, I wouldn't have confronted her - particularly with their history.
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If I had been able to go out when she was there with the package in the front yard, then I think I would have done that, like "Oh, my package came."
But she sounds nuts (she came to your house, *while you were home*, and stole a package, *while you were looking at her*!! CRAZY) She probably would have denied having it in the first place. Calling the cops was the right thing to do.
Retaliation does seem like a possibility, but she doesn't sound too smart so hopefully if they try anything you can catch them. And then, I'd be headed to some sort of restraining order. I would just ignore them.
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@skipra: I think you did the right thing. Sometimes seeing a cop makes it more official and now she knows you don't play around. What a weird neighbor! We have weird next door neighbors too so I try to avoid them.
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