Stolen

Yesterday morning I was wakened by my father (our neighbor) knocking on the door around 6:15. He had found a whole bunch of baby's stuff - a board book, toys, a romper - and some of our CDs in the ditch that runs about 400 yards along the road between our houses. It turns out that both their cars were rifled through at some point last night and money taken, and he wanted to know where all of our stuff came from. I openned the garage and lo and behold - BABY'S DIAPER BAG WAS GONE OFF OF THE FRONT SEAT!

So these hooligans must have swiped it right out of the garage while it was open between 8:45 and 9:30 last night - in between my hubby washing the cars in the front yard and my going back out to use the hose to water the flowers. After that we were outside and even later had the garage all locked up for the night...

The police said several people had reported 3 kids between 13-16 years old rummaging in cars at around 6 this morning, and on his way to work my hubby saw around 8 police cars gathered where they were putting two teenage boys, cuffed, into one not more than 2 miles away from us.

Before Paul saw them caught, though, we made a report, etc. When I described my baby's bag the sheriff's deputy lit up a bit and said, "I'll bet we have your bag". He had his sargeant pull up and - surprise - THE KIDS HAD USED OUR DIAPER BAG AS THEIR LOOT BAG! They'd taken off running across a field when they saw a police car and left it behind in the road. He (the cop) started pulling CDS and money and car radios out of my bag - and a nasty cigar! - the only thing left of baby's that they hadn't thrown into the ditch was a single little spoon

I really hope that the little thieves swiped it last night and didn't find a way into our garage! The hilarious thing is that they picked on our '03 Taurus with junk in it, and not the '08 Civic with Paul's GPS, iPod, and WORK LAPTOP. AND the keys were in the newer car! They'd already stolen a pickup truck, so I'm suprised the dumb kids didn't check the nicer car! Thankfully they didn't, and we've learned not to leave ANYTHING of value out there - and to SHUT the door every time!

Feeling so violated right now...