Junk Burglars Strike
In what could be another sign of the sick economy, Queen Anne’s County now appears to have a trash thief.
Somebody was so desperate to get to the leavings at the County Transfer Station on Harper Road that he, she or they cut through the exterior plastic roofing material to a new recycling building.
Once inside, according to Deputy George Sewell, the perpetrator(s) started a forklift and used it “to turn over several stacks of cardboard.”
While ransacking the dump, the intruder “damaged several large outside security lights” and “removed a metal ramp used to load the large cardboard bails onto a tractor trailor.”
Next, not satisfied with the cardboard, or a metal ramp, the burglar raised his sights and “a stereo was removed.” But quite clumsily. “Entry was then made into the small shed located next to the dump containers where a large water bottle was overturned.”
The thief managed to make away with “stolen property (worth) $52.
The estimated damage was $10,327.
The Sheriff’s Criminal Investigation Unit is on the lookout for one or more plainly needy and apparently clumsy perpetrators, possibly with low self-esteem and a cardboard fetish.
In the first paragraph of this story the author suggests that this crime might be the results of the current “sick economy”. What’s the author’s source of factual information correlating criminal tendencies with economic conditions? I was unemployed for ten months and I didn’t steal anything from anyone, not even once. One need look no farther than Baltimore to discover that even during the best of times there are plenty of people around who simply won’t follow the rules. Even the mayor of Baltimore with her well paid job found it necessary to steal.