I suddenly thought the only rational and responsible thing to do was to call the police, but then I used my common sense and thought ‘Why bother calling the police when I have a police officer living nearby. He may have only just got back from work but I’m sure he won’t mind helping one of his troubled neighbours out. When I arrived at his house I knocked on the door and there was no answer I shouted ‘Come on answer you lazy sod’. I then through a stone at his top window and he opened it slowly and shouted in a rather disgruntled manner ‘What the devil do you want you know it is an offence to disturb the peace at this time of night’. I replied ‘This is serious the Wilson’s (my next door neighbours) are being burgled.
Steve (The local police officer) immediately rushed downstairs before I could say another word and stormed out of the door and stated ‘Why haven’t you called the police? I replied ‘It makes more sense coming to you because your local and I bet the rest of your team would take forever to get here. The Steve said ‘Lets get over there before it is too late. If they’ve got any common sense they would have left long ago. We hurried as fast as we can and as we approached the house it was perfectly clear they were still there because there is a black van there, which I could vaguely see before from the back garden window because the blinds on the opposite window were not completely shut.
Steve thought it would be a good idea to go into my semi-detached house and listen through the thin walls to see if we could pick up any voices, which we did, they were on about stealing the Wilson’s fancy wide screen television. Steve stated ‘we need some kind of weapon to disarm these criminals before they get away. I said ‘yes I have a crow bar we could use in the basement’. I quickly dashed to cupboard under the stairs to find the keys and there was no sign of them so I immediately rushed up to the hallway where I have another key holder and I went to switch the lights on and damn the bulbs are gone. I shouted up to Steve because he was holding the torch. He immediately rushed upstairs and handed me the keys, I shone the torch and found the keys.
Steve said in a state of panic ‘Come on we have no time to waste’. We raced down the stairs and then the stairs to basement like the speed of lightning and opened the doors and quickly found the crowbar. We locked my house up and crawled over too next-door and we decided to wait in the nearby bushes to give these criminals a nasty shock as they came out. We waited for about five minutes and the time was now 1.00pm they were in there for a very long period of time Steve said ‘That most intelligent burglars would have left half an hour ago’. Then suddenly the door opened and out came what looked too be two small men, but as they got a bit closer we had our suspicions and thought that it could be kids. We jumped out on them anywhere and took their masks off and we found it was too 14-year-old lads.
We were immensely surprised because these kids were not old enough to drive a van or any other vehicle. They stated ‘The van has nothing to do with us, we were just passing and we thought it this looks like a nice house and decided to see if we could break in and steal some of the goods. I went home and retired to bed after a rather eventful day and Steve decided to drive these kids in to the police station so that they could make a statement and to contact their parents. I was rather surprised that they admitted to breaking in but then it occurred to me that we must have scared the living day lights out of them jumping out like that, so they thought they had no other choice.