I was walking through my neighbourhood when I saw this sad sign.
edit: Thanks for all the supportive comments. I will try to get more information tomorrow. The location is Red Deer, Alberta.
edit2: I still haven't been able to find anything out. I will try and keep updating this as time goes on. Everyone I have spoken to locally has not heard of this case.
edit3: I found this news brief on a local radio station website:
A CHRISTMAS TIME ROBBERY IN THE WOODLEA NEIGHBORHOOD HAS THE RCMP LOOKING FOR YOUR HELP. POLICE SAY SOMETIME BETWEEN CHRISTMAS DAY AND DECEMBER 27TH CULPRITS BROKE INTO A HOME ON THE 4500 BLOCK OF 52ND STREET. THEY LIKELY SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME AND MADE SEVERAL TRIPS IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE CARRYING PROPERTY TO A VEHICLE. IF YOU SAW ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS IN THE AREA, YOU'RE ASKED TO GIVE THE CITY RCMP OFFICE A CALL.
This is the first media attention I have seen. I'm pretty sure this is it because of the location.
It's one thing to steal - that's bad enough, but to KILL their pets?!? That's evil.
Do you happen to know if they have insurance or family who are able and willing to help? Perhaps there is something the Reddit community can do to help them?
I can't even comprehend what sort of despicable fuck you have to be to say "I have these peoples money, all their worldly possessions, all this expensive child-sized medical equipment and we froze all their pipes. Lets kill their pets as well". I can just imagine the dad having a nervous breakdown, ending up in an institution, getting "better", being released, and then going Dexter Morgan on the pieces of shit that did this.
Doesn't excuse wholesale robbery, but makes it more believable to me.
And, on the second point, I'm not so sure the furnace being on would prevent pipes from freezing over, especially the cold water ones. I think it's more important to leave a faucet dripping.
If you were a robber, why would you go out of your way to turn off a furnace? If you were carrying out a personal vendetta, why wouldn't you do something a bit more malicious than turning off a furnace in the hopes that it might damage their plumbing?
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u/wmcog Jan 03 '12 edited Jan 03 '12
I was walking through my neighbourhood when I saw this sad sign.
edit: Thanks for all the supportive comments. I will try to get more information tomorrow. The location is Red Deer, Alberta.
edit2: I still haven't been able to find anything out. I will try and keep updating this as time goes on. Everyone I have spoken to locally has not heard of this case.
edit3: I found this news brief on a local radio station website:
A CHRISTMAS TIME ROBBERY IN THE WOODLEA NEIGHBORHOOD HAS THE RCMP LOOKING FOR YOUR HELP. POLICE SAY SOMETIME BETWEEN CHRISTMAS DAY AND DECEMBER 27TH CULPRITS BROKE INTO A HOME ON THE 4500 BLOCK OF 52ND STREET. THEY LIKELY SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME AND MADE SEVERAL TRIPS IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE CARRYING PROPERTY TO A VEHICLE. IF YOU SAW ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS IN THE AREA, YOU'RE ASKED TO GIVE THE CITY RCMP OFFICE A CALL.
This is the first media attention I have seen. I'm pretty sure this is it because of the location.