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03-31-2008, 08:42 AM
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New Confidence Scam -- Need Money for a Tow
A man knocked on my door on Saturday afternoon with an interesting spin on the Famous Philly "I need (x) dollars for (y) activity."
He told me my neighbor had been in a bad car accident and was in the hospital. She couldn't reach her family and asked the tow truck driver to bring her car home and leave the keys with me. He casually mentioned at some point that she didn't have enought o pay the full towing charge and would need an additional $20 from me. My neighbor told him she promised to pay me when she got home. He didn't have a tow truck and told me they couldn't bring the car until the bill was settled. When I told him I wasn't giving him any money he was a little frustrated but told me he would bring the car around anyway. I told him I was calling the police and he left... 
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03-31-2008, 11:14 AM
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03-31-2008, 12:31 PM
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http://pub50.bravenet.com/forum/4226496069/show/625058
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04-01-2008, 01:16 PM
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The car was parked on Pine at the corner of 48th... well-lit, well-trafficked. Car was empty, so nothing to steal. Apparently the person who did it had no use for the empty reusable Trader Joe's bags in the trunk.
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04-01-2008, 01:20 PM
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Incidentally on Saturday morning there was a lot of new broken glass on S. Hanson between Spruce and Pine... I'd guess about 4-5 windows worth. I don't normally walk that way so I can't say for sure when it happened. I never park there (too dark, too quiet).
There were also some gunshots fired on Pine on Fri night - Sat morning, don't know if that was related in any way, but I DID call that one in.
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04-03-2008, 10:47 AM
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Break ins
This was posted on the university city list serve. I thought I would share it here since it is relevant. I am not sure what block it is but it could be any block. Gigi
Our primarily homeowner-occupied block has a few unoccupied homes - some abandoned, some under construction or for sale. In the last 3 months we've had 5 break-ins and theft of pipes and other (possibly?) sellable items. One home was broken into after being rehabbed and sold but before the new homeowners moved in. Unfortunately, they had to replace all their pipes after just buying the home before it was livable again. Another house was still undergoing renovations and the robbery of the pipes was interrupted by a neighbor. Both of these homes were broken into through the basement and a neighboring trash can was stolen to haul away the goods. The 3 long abandoned homes that have been broken into were previously secured. The secured doors/windows were forcibly removed/broken and the houses have been repeatedly visited with a variety of items like entire windows (not stained glass - just windows???) being removed by the thief/thieves. I'm posting this because, as the economy tightens and metal prices rise, I think this type of crime will likely increase. I recommended to all the neighbors on our block to make sure their basement windows were secure, to install or repair alleyway motion lights and keep their eyes open. It's not a bad idea for everyone else in the neighborhood, too.
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04-03-2008, 01:44 PM
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The same exact thing happened to us. We closed on the house and two days later when I went in to start working on it I found about a foot and a half of water in the basement and no pipes. We honestly thought it had something to do with the crew that was working on the place before we bought it. A couple times when we went to look at the place they were outside at like 10 in the morning drinking 40's. Plus, it seemed too suspicious that the day after we closed this happened. Whoever broke in knew the best place to enter, and seemingly to us, knew that he was no longer going to have to do the work to replace them like he would have if they were stolen the day before. We confronted the head contractor, but he swore up and down that it wasn't them. I'm curious to know who the crew was working on the rehab that that post referred to.
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04-03-2008, 01:53 PM
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ucneighbors mailing list ucneighbors@lists.asc.upenn.edu http://lists.asc.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ucneig hbors to log on and you can read the thread and e-mail the person for more information
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04-04-2008, 01:37 PM
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Copper piping thefts are a major problem is West/SW Philadelphia. 99% of the burglaries are committed by drug abusers who can get a nice amount of cash by taking the copper to a scrap yard. As was suggested earlier, lock your basement windows. If you observe anyone walking with or carting copper piping around, call 911. We can stop them and hopefully find where they came from.
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