At about 7:15pm on Sunday nite , someone turned off my stopcock (conveniently located outside for all & sundry to access if they wish).
My neighbour , Willie , came out to give me a hand turning it on (at this point , I ruled out naughty children unless they pushed weights everyday & had nails & screws for breakfast). Also , someone had tampered with the barricade I had set up at my back gate after a previous break-in. Yesterday I arrived home to find someone had turned off my stopcock again...I went out to investigate & found about 12 metres of copper pipe had been removed along the side of my house. Now the funny thing is , I have a gate with a burglar bar type fence ontop of it making me suspicious as to how the delinquents gained entry....... Which leads to another upsetting instance which occurred on Saturday morning.....I awoke to find 2 missed calls from my (helpful) neighbour.....when I went outside , I found a ladder in my property leading to the top of my neighbour's roof.I called the neighbour who said he had tried to reach me as he needed to work on his gutters...when he received no answer , he figured he could just go ahead , trespass & do what he needed to do.....As far as I'm concerned , this is cause for concern but I am not sure how to tackle it.The neighbour is the owner of a lodge which has been raided for drugs & prostitution in the past...& who is now showing all his lodgers how to gain entry to my property....Apparently this is not the first time one of his workers have accessed my property while I was not there...... I am seriously disturbed (never mind put out by the waterpipes being stolen) by all of this & wonder if anyone has advice..... Colleen 5a Donne str Obs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is subject to the Telkom SA electronic communication legal notice, available at : http://www.telkom.co.za/TelkomEMailLegalNotice.PDF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en.
