mmike87
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My wife called me at work yesterday. She said that there was a van parked in front of our house, for the better part of an hour. There was a man, late 30's early 40's sitting in the van reading a newspaper and watching the neighborhood kids ride their bikes.
This is unusual. We've never seen this van before. At first she thought it may be a friend of the neighbors, but when their young girl left the house she walked right by his van, indicating to me that she didn't know him and that they were indeed home. Thus, he's not a friend of theirs waiting for them to come home.
Eventually the van left when the last school bus of the day came by. It drove around the neighborhood a couple of times, at one point appearing to follow the bus.
My 7 years olds friend said he was positive that he saw the same van the previous day as well. Over at his end of the street.
I told my wife to make sure she got the license number. The van was missing a front plate (illegal in Virginia) and she thought she could not discretely get the number from where she was standing. So, no plate number. I was not happy about this, but what can you do?
She called the police and the guy was gone when they got there. They took down the report. Not sure what they do with the information.
So, are we over-reacting or is this van, with a kid watching man in it with a missing front plate warrant some suspicion? There could be an innocent explanation - but I could not think of one.
This is unusual. We've never seen this van before. At first she thought it may be a friend of the neighbors, but when their young girl left the house she walked right by his van, indicating to me that she didn't know him and that they were indeed home. Thus, he's not a friend of theirs waiting for them to come home.
Eventually the van left when the last school bus of the day came by. It drove around the neighborhood a couple of times, at one point appearing to follow the bus.
My 7 years olds friend said he was positive that he saw the same van the previous day as well. Over at his end of the street.
I told my wife to make sure she got the license number. The van was missing a front plate (illegal in Virginia) and she thought she could not discretely get the number from where she was standing. So, no plate number. I was not happy about this, but what can you do?
She called the police and the guy was gone when they got there. They took down the report. Not sure what they do with the information.
So, are we over-reacting or is this van, with a kid watching man in it with a missing front plate warrant some suspicion? There could be an innocent explanation - but I could not think of one.