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Suspicious activity on Hubbard Street this morning
Just want our Hubbard St. neighbors to be on the look out. Walking to the T this morning, we saw a man suspiciously looking in to a few yards. As we approached (I had my 2 yr old walking with me), the man opened the gate to the blue house towards the Lamartine end (right hand side, home to a large brown fluffy dog) of the street and started breaking the ice on the bottom step, to appear as though he lived there. He went so far as to close the storm door and take some salt from a kitty litter container and sprinkle on the steps. I would like to think he's a friend of the homeowner, but as I mentioned, he looked awfully suspicious. He was quite tall, maybe in his late 50's/early 60's, wearing a navy blue knit cap and large baggy parka, and, I believe, brown pants. Another neighbor walked through Hubbard behind us with his large dog (maybe a good deterrent?) and the man in question left Hubbard and crossed the corridor, passing the basketball courts and proceeded down the walk to the right to reach Amory. I stopped our neighbor with his dog after the man was out of sight to ask if he recognized him, and he agreed that it was a bit strange. Sorry for the delayed post, but this happened about 9:00am today.
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Permalink Reply by Eric on
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I think I saw this happen this morning because I remember the person scraping ice off the steps, but I thought that was happening at the triple decker towards the end of the street, which isn't blue, but gray (this house also has a large brown fluffy dog that sits on the porch, so I think we may be talking about the same house).
I didn't necessarily see him looking into any other yards, but I did see him scraping the front steps with his feet. It was my thought that based on the triple-decker, which I thought was a rental, that he was an offsite super performing some snow/ice removal maintenance. That may or may not be true, I don't live on the street, but this is an interesting case study in perception because besides the fact that his method seemed a little bit basic, I wouldn't have thought anything else of it. -
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Thanks, Eric. We are talking about the same house. We'll call it blue/gray! There were 2 people who walked down the street behind me and my daughter (passed us), so you must have been one of them. If you saw us, we were travelling at the rate of very short 2 yr old legs, so we were on the street for quite a while.
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Permalink Reply by Sgt. Eric Krause on
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Did anyone call 911 to report this? If not, please do in the future. Rely on your instincts and let the police determine if the person is there for a legitimate reason. We get many suspicious calls like this that sometimes do turn out to be thieves.
Sgt. Eric Krause
Area E-13 Community Service Office
www.e13bpd.com
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