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City Employees driving City owned vehicles often drive our street. It’s a thorough fare from one elementary school to a popular city park, so it’s a popular street to travel, and the city employees are (for the most part) conscientious guys who do a good job. After a night of prowling intruders, Mom was out capturing photos of a parking site that had been home to a strange vehicle (who left behind their trash containers by way of litter in the gutter) during the night and footprints where they’d walked through her yard. The city worker stopped to ask if there was a problem he could help her with (Mom’s a little older, and they really are good guys. Most of them know her well.) or if she was looking for something. She told him he could help her by doing something about “that”, and pointed to a large black lab a neighbor kid was shooing out of his yard. “He doesn’t belong around here?” The city employee asked. “No. He doesn’t. Nor do the strays that run with him, dog gang style.” “You sound upset, has something happened?” “Well, yeah, I couldn’t get out of my house the other read more…