Random Neighborhood Events

Jared and I have lived in our neighborhood now for four years. I have always felt extremely safe there and quite honestly have left my house unlocked for periods of time, windows open - generally upstairs windows only, car doors unlocked with my purse in it, etc. I am not someone who worries about my belongings being stolen, or my life being threatened.

Well a few weeks ago, there was a news van in our neighborhood doing a story on a vehicle that was broken into around the corner from us. Me, being a nosey neighbor, had to go check out the news van and see what was going on. Turns out a lot of Honda's have been getting broken into or stolen around the St. Helens area, so the news crew decided to do a report. I am still not all that worried about my vehicle getting broken into, but it is sad to hear that something of that nature happened where I live.

Last night, I got a phone call from my neighbor Adam, here is our conversation:

Adam: Hey, did you put some movies on our doorstep?
Jennifer: Uhm...movies...what kind of movies?
Adam: Shelly and I just got home from work and we saw them sitting there...
Adam: DVD movies
Jennifer: Like dirty movies or just a regular blockbuster film?
Adam: Well the movies are Click (with Adam Sandler) and some Jet Li Dragon movie
Jennifer: Weird...no I didn't put that on your doorstep, besides I have been at work all day
Adam: Yah, well I will ask around
Jennifer: Good luck, let me know what you learn
Adam: Okay peace out

So after hanging up the phone I called Jared and told him about it and we sorta just blew it off no thinking anything of it. Well, this morning as I left the house, I happened to glance at our doorstep (I suppose if we actually used our front door to go in and out of the house I might have noticed sooner) and there were a stack of movies sitting there. I am guessing they were there last night and we just didn't pay attention. Anyway, we got three movies, Empire Records, Dragon 2000 and Desperately Seeking Susan. I am starting to think this whole movie on doorsteps thing is a bit creepy, but maybe just a prank of sorts. I mean it is Spring Break and there are plenty of unsupervised kids around. When I got to work, I emailed my neighbor Shelly who had movies on her door last night and told her what happened. She is totally weirded out by the whole situation. I don't normally make a big deal of this type of thing, but decided to call the St. Helens non-emergency to report what had happened. I received a phone call from a very nice police officer who basically said: "Enjoy your new movies". Apparently there were no stolen DVD reports, so the officer wasn't too concerned, but said he would call if any other reports came in. Regardless, I won't actually be watching these movies.....I am a big time movie buff and have seen too many horror movies. I keep thinking if I play one of the movies, it is going to be something else that tells me I am going to die in two days or something.....silly I know!

Anyway, after emailing with my neighbor I learned that on Saturday night - March 21, 2009 there were tons of cops across the street from her house. Apparently one of our neighbors committed suicide. CREEPY! I don't believe I know who the person was, and still don't know much but am curious to hear more about what happened.

I mean, we live in a very nice upscale neighborhood, where you just wouldn't think that these types of events would occur. So the past few weeks have been a bit of an eye opener that these things can happen anywhere, even if you aren't expecting it! I just hope that we can figure out where these random movies came from.....I don't like unsolved mysteries!