<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>All:</div><div>someone I met last election day told of a truck making the asphalt offer, and watching as they put some asphalt on a driveway near hers. When the job was done, the price was astronomical. Just an alert if you're tempted by such an offer. The incident that Bob M describes might be that sort of scam, rather than robbery casing, but it's good to be alert.</div><div><br></div><div>BT</div><br><div><div>On Jul 29, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Robert Mathiesen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">About 2:30 this afternoon two men in a silver pickup truck went slowly down the block of Lauriston Street between Hope and Bayard. There was some sort of small tank for liquid and a rather new wheelbarrow in the back, but nothing else that I could see. They stopped in front of a house and the driver got out, went up on the porch and peered through the windows. He did not ring the bell. Then he came down and went down the driveway, calling out whether anyone was home -- but not very loudly. Then he went up on the porch again, and was surprised when one of the people who lived there opened the door. She had not heard him at all, but her young children had noticed and told her. He said that he had been working on the road construction project nearby and had some spare asphalt. If she wanted her driveway patched, he and his father could do the job. She told him that they were renters only, so he got back in the truck. The man was, I would guess, in his thirties. The other man in the truck, from what I could see of him, didn't look old enough to be his father, and he was on his cell phone the whole time the truck was parked.<br>
<br>I had been walking along Lauriston Street from my house to my car, which was parked on the street between Bayard and Brewster. Something didn't feel right to me, so I stopped at a little distance and watched the whole thing, not trying to hide my curiosity. When the first man got back in the driver's seat, he took off fast, turned south down Bayard Street, and was out of sight before I could get to the corner to see which way he had turned on Burlington. I got in my car and spent a few minutes driving around the area west of Hope Street looking for the truck, but I did not find it. <br>
<br>This may mean that the truck turned east on Burlington, went one block to Hope, and then turned south on Hope. If it i the same two who broke into your house, he could have been at your house in 3 minutes, that is, by about 2:40.<br>
<br>It was, as I said, a silver pickup truck. There was a "GMC" logo on the grill. It had a Massachusetts plate, and the number was 324 KP4. <br><br>I hope this helps. I really hope the police catch them. In retrospect, perhaps I should have gone home directly and phoned the police, but I wanted to hear what my neighbor had to say first about what the man had told her.<br>
<br>All best,<br>Bob<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Alyssa Morin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alyssa.morin@gmail.com" target="_blank">alyssa.morin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font face="Lucida Grande CY"><span style="font-size:10pt">Between 1:20–3pm our house on Poplar Street was broken into and robbed. The thieves kicked in our front door, stole our laptops and rummaged through our bedroom taking some cash. In the past year and a half, our tenants have been broken into, our car stolen and now our house has been robbed. Not feeling very safe in 02906 right about now.</span></font>
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