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Washed my truck today and while drying it, two young guys came down my dead end street in a rusted out old silver Cavalier with temporary tags. They kind of eyeballed me pulling in, so I watched them a little closely. Besides the driver, the other guy was sitting in the back seat driver side. When they turned around and headed out, I could have sworn there was a little girl, of a different color than these two, down low and pulled up close to the guy in the back. I had a bad feeling.

 

I let them get around the corner, then I jumped in my truck and followed. They caught on pretty soon that they were being tailed. They started playing cat and mouse and I didn't want to get too close because I wasn't armed.

 

They pulled into another parking area of this large apartment complex and I knew they had no other way out but to come back by me, so I parked and watched and waited.

 

A few minutes passed and some maintenance men came by in a golf cart. I told them what was going on and could they check it out. If it was something going on and they decided to jet, I was still in my truck and ready to roll.

 

The maintenance men kind of rode by them and kept going down a little golf cart trail to the managers office. The suspicious guys never got out of the car and after about fifteen minutes they cranked up and started leaving.

 

Right away, they went back to cat and mouse stuff. They knew I was still watching. With me hanging back, there came to be traffic between me and them and they got out on the highway and got away.

 

I just hope to God what I thought I saw wasn't really happening. I DO KNOW what ever they were doing was no good.

 

I didn't call the cops because there is no tag number to give them, I didn't get a good description of the guys and I'm not 100% sure of what I thought I saw.

 

Problem is now they know where my truck is and I'm worried they may come back and mess with it.

 

Kind of a bad ending to a great day.

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CALL THE COPS

 

 

if there is a little girl missing they will want whatever info u have u can prolly give enuf of a discription for a cop to be able to identify the vehickle and get them

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OK, I just called the cops on their non-emergency number. I identified myself, told my story and she said "No sir, there are no reports or missing children in that area that I am aware of". That was ALL she said for the whole conversation.

 

Don't feel any better, but there is nothing else I can do now. Probably should have confronted them when I had a chance. Wether I was right or wrong about the child, it would have been an ugly situation because these dudes were definitely up to no good and obviously street smart.

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Yeah they won't come back around if they were up to something fishy.  If they got away with whatever they were doing the last thing they would do is push their luck and come back to the area.  Hopefully they were just idiots and the little girl was just a family member or something.

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