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I don't know what is more depressing, getting your personal information stolen from you by someone who you do not know or getting it stolen from you indirectly (through someone you paid a check to who was a victim of theft) and knowing exactly who stole it. I will admit that moving to a small town was still a good move for my family, but I'm not sure petty crimes are better then any other sort of crimes. I guess in a big city you would never find out who actually did it. In this small town, some of the petty criminals have been identified and yet they are still not in jail and continue to commit crimes while they are high on drugs.

Identity theft is a huge problem, especially when drugs are involved. I never experienced petty crimes like the one's that are happening all around me right now and I grew up in Los Angeles. Maybe because Los Angeles was so big, it just never happened in my old neighborhood or I just never knew about it. I also had a lot of my personal mail going to a secure business address. I'm writing this to inform anyone reading this that there is a lot of mail, checks and bank information being stolen from mailboxes, credit card fraud and all sorts of stuff being taken from vehicles in this weak economy. Beware of petty criminals who are also making phone calls pretending to be someone else or a bank to gather even more personal information. They do this after they steal your credit card information.

Kids high on drugs are now breaking into cars and taking them for a ride and they are looking for cars that are unlocked or that have any sort of easy access. Just imagine, a person visiting from Los Angeles at one of my neighbor's house had paperwork taken from his car with his Los Angeles address on it. I guess the childish adults hooked on drugs thought it was entertaining to go to that LA address and steal the car and drive it back here and park it in some hidden valley. I guess this takes the word boredom to a whole new level. Someone please give them a Game Boy or Xbox so that they have something to do since their parents obviously have no idea. I do not even allow games in my house during the school week, but in this case I would make an exception. On a serious note.

These crimes are happening at all hours of the day and a lot of the people committing the crimes happen to be drug users and are up for days at a time. They are also making the drug in their home. Drug users do not just make drugs in a beat up old shack, they can also manufacture

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