I came home last week to discover that my tenant had left with my jewelry and our money. I immediately reported this to the Halifax Regional Police. I called back each day to see if anyone had been assigned to my case. Two days later I stopped an officer in his police van. I gave him my case file number, he looked it up, the case has been assigned. When I showed this officer (in the van) some of the info I had on the former tenant the officer asked if I had called him on his cell phone. I asked “Why? “So you could ask him where he is and if he has your things.” Am I supposed to confront this individual?

The officer assigned to the case has not shown up for his scheduled shifts. If he doesn’t show up tomorrow it will be 2 weeks since the theft and 9 days since it was reported.

Maybe I should confront the thief and hope he draws a knife on me. Would the Halifax Regional Police show up then? —LSL

This article appears in Apr 21-27, 2011.

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  2. This is why I don’t waste the energy it takes to dial the phone number to call these people. His oh so professional advice was to call the thief and ask for your shit back. That’s what I’ll do then if I ever get burgled, I sure as shit won’t call them for ANYTHING.

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  3. DUH; if you have a case file number the fucking thing was assigned! ~ So, you could not try and contact Jewels via cellphone/courier pigeon/smoke signal and tell him you contacted the police about the items he stole. ~ The officer was right in telling you to do the call.

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  4. The cops can’t even stop those little punks from beating the shit out of old people, what makes you think they’d give two shits about some money and jewelry.

    This REALLY doesn’t surprise me in the least. Maybe if you were some little bar star needing a ride to the club at midnight, sure, but you really did expect too much.

    You were better off hunting the perp down and beating them with a stick until they gave you your shit back, unfortunately.

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  5. lsl, that sounds like,” life sucks lately”. and that is does, for you.cops can only catch crooks with info, or sometimes jelly donuts. bro tim, how about you cracking this one. seems to be easy enough. felon, known to cops? have name, check reords, find and cuff em.
    but i guess sit is not as easy as that people tend to get lost in this city sometimes. and it seems, like a lot, lately.
    halisux is THE city to commit most crimes in, so the saying goes o.p.

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  6. A question; The latest killing in Preston, the 22 year old was wearing body armour, where the fuck can you get body armour legally if you’re not law enforcement, same place you can get your illegal handgun?

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  11. If you’re wearing body armour, you’re expecting to get shot. Typical low-grade gang wars – I wouldn’t waste one tear on the demise of any of those criminal motherfuckers.

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  16. I’m gonna make oscar wear goggles.

    I also have to take a picture of molly in her hat. She’s got that “I’m gonna cut you in your sleep you c-unt!” look on her face. It’s HIIIIlarious!

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  18. Your tenant stole your money and jewelry? How did they know where it was? Do you have a nice flat screen for them to take too?

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  19. I’d call and say “I know where he is, here is the address. I am going there with a shotgun. Let’s see who gets there first *click*”.

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