Another Day Another Crime

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Another Day, Another Crime; Psalm 118:24

Another Day Another crime–that’s the title of this week’s Mystery Question. I hope you like these little vignettes of crimes. 🙂

But first the photo and verse. Psalm 118:24 is one of the first verses I learned as a child right after John 3:16. And I thought the photo taken in Poriya, Israel fit it very well.

Now for last week’s Crazy Crimes Take 3–Mystery Question: Here are four true crimes, well really three true crimes. I made up the fourth one. It’s up to you to figure out which three are true and which one isn’t.
  1.  Police in Britain received a “suspicious call” related to a burglary. It seems one of the burglars accidentally butt-called 999, the emergency number in the UK, and the police listened in on all of their antics up until the time they arrested them.
  2. With an outstanding warrant against him and a pulled driver’s license, a man thought it’d be a good idea to “borrow” his cousin’s driver’s license, especially since he looked enough like the photo to pass as the cousin. Unfortunately when he was pulled over for speeding, he was arrested. Turns out the cousin was wanted for armed robbery.
  3. Two apparent would-be thieves thought they had the perfect plan—one would grab a bunch of merchandise from the mall, and run back out to the parking lot, where the second guy would be waiting with the getaway car. It went off as planned until the car died with a dead battery. When police arrived the two were trying to get a jump start. The police obliged before they took them off to jail.
  4. A man in Florida purchased a Porsche 911 Turbo from a dealership in Destin on Monday for nearly $140,000. He drove off with the car just as the check bounced. The check he created on his home computer. He was later arrested for Grand Theft Auto.

And the answer is…#2! Congrats on all who guess correctly.

Now for this week’s Another Day Another Crime Mystery Question: Here are four crimes committed by neighbors against other neighbors. While these may not be crimes that you’d call the police about, they are crimes against whatever is decent. Three are true and I made up the fourth one. It’s up to you to figure out which one I made up.
  1.  A man had a six-foot wooden privacy fence that ran the length of his property and was in desperate need of painting. His neighbor, Bob, kept bugging him to paint it. This is what the man painted along the side of the fence: Look, Bob, I’ve painted my fence. 🙂
  2. Kids love to play kickball or soccer, but sometimes the ball goes in a neighbor’s yard. In one neighborhood a guy confiscated every ball that landed in his yard and put it high in a tree. The tree looks like a Christmas tree of nightmares with at least 40 balls in its branches.
  3. Unfortunately, having a dog comes with the risk that they’ll get into a fight with another dog, and sometimes, other dog owners are big jerks. When one neighbor’s dog was attacked by another neighbor’s Great Dane, said neighbor paid for his $288.66 vet bill in all pennies left in the victim’s driveway in a wheelbarrow.
  4. When a woman complained about the antique, clawfooted bathtub her next-door neighbor used as a planter in his front yard, the neighbor replaced the tub with two white commodes planted with daisies.

Okay, Super Sleuths, which story did I make up? Leave your answers in the comments and I’ll enter you in a June drawing for a $10 gift card.

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Comments 45

  1. Dolores Topliff

    Lovely photo. These are all infuriating, but I think you made up number three. I’m glad I’m not neighbors to these characters. I live in a much more sane neighborhood.

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  3. Priscilla Bettis

    I think you made up number 2 because when we were kids, we were smart enough to figure out how to knock a ball out of a tree, and if we couldn’t knock it out, we could always talk Craig or Cindy into climbing up to get it. Love the Crosshairs cover!

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  4. Lelia (Lucy) Reynolds

    I think #3. I watch fear thy neighbor sometimes and think….really…what are people thinking. I like my cemetery neighbors as they never complain. Blessings

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  6. Tim Johnson

    The photo underscores the verse, one my dad used to quote often. I have a friend who declares it every morning.

    That’s a great cover for your new book. Hopefully, B&N will make it available for Nook preorder soon.

    I’m glad I live in a mostly sane neighborhood. I can relate to the kids whose soccer balls often ended up in a neighbor’s yard. Fortunately, they were never confiscated, but we did get a lecture about respecting other’s property. I’m thinking you made up #2 this week. Hard to imagine a person wanting a tree full of soccer balls, and 40 at that! it’d be hard to put that many balls in a tree.

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      Patricia Bradley

      I love my cover, Tim. 😉 Speaking of a tree full of odd things, have you ever seen a shoe tree? Like one on the side of the road with shoes hanging from the limb? Glad you stopped by!

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      5. Tim Johnson

        Pat, thanks for the info on the shoe tree. The only thing I’ve had thrown into one of my trees was TP which our church youth group thought would make a good wedding gift. Hmm.

        Elizabeth, thanks for the link to the bottle tree. That is really neat. I don’t think one would last long in my front yard, but the back is walled in…and I wouldn’t have to worry about dropped seeds like the mesquite tree I used to have.

        However, I did find I could get a living bottle tree right here in Tucson: https://www.pipeen.com/bottle-tree-tucson/

  7. Betti

    Love the picture and the verse! Crosshairs sounds fabulous – looking forward to reading:).
    We live in such a sane neighborhood that it’s hard to imagine any of these scenarios. I think I’ll go with #1 because I wouldn’t want to waste my time painting that….

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  8. Jackie Smith

    Another fave scripture! These are all hilarious, and I think all could be true, but I will choose 2.

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  10. MS Barb

    I hope #2 is false…I think kids would find a way to get up in the tree when the owner wasn’t home… OR, where I live in NE OH, we’ve had some pretty bad windstorms that have blown over trees!

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  12. Edward Arrington

    Wow! Gorgeous picture. Looks like the world is on fire on the other side of the hill. Love the Scripture verse.

    I have a problem picturing a tree with 40 soccer balls in it. Maybe badminton birdies, but soccer balls? So much about #2 rings false. The neighbor would have to be wacko to go to the trouble to get all those balls high up in the tree. He either had a powerful throwing arm with a deadly aim, or he loved climbing trees to place them where they wouldn’t fall out. And what kid would not see it as a challenge to go up the tree after the balls? SMH!

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      Patricia Bradley

      We’ll see, Edward. Love your logic as always. So glad you enjoyed the photo. I almost missed getting it and think I took it out the car window. lol Thanks for stopping by!

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  14. Alicia Haney

    I think it’s #2 . Yay, you got a new book coming out! I love your book cover, it looks very intriguing . Have a Great week and stay safe.

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  16. Trixi

    Oh my goodness I would not want ANY of these neighbors living near me! What awful examples of people being nasty & mean.
    For some reason #3 sounds like the fake one…..because at least the neighbor DID pay the vet bill, even if it was in pennies. I would think a mean & vengeful neighbor would not pay or do anything & the case would wind up in a small claims court or something. But that’s just my logic anyway, lol!

    Beautiful picture and verse to go with it. What a great one to memorize as a kid, and it stuck with you all your life. 🙂 Congrats on turning in another book! I bet that feels really good

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      Patricia Bradley

      It feels really, really good, Trixi! And then my wonderful editor gave me another week to turn in Deception since she wasn’t going to read it over the holiday weekend. I can’t believe that wasn’t on her agenda!

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