Houston Crime

I keep hearing about “stuff happening”.  This is not crime that makes the news, but crime here and there.  I’m hearing about it more and more.   Even places where you don’t expect it.

My husband works in a tall building downtown.  He takes the elevator bank up to  the middle of the building and walks down the stairs each day.  Yesterday he found a lady’s wallet hidden in the corner of the staircase.  He took it back to his desk and started trying to find the owner.   It had credit cards and cash.  He could not find her work phone from the info, but did notice she used the same credit union that we have.

He called the credit union and gave them his info, asked that they call her and give his contact info.  Had they given us her info, we’d have been very upset.  They called her and she immediately called him.

She is in her 20s, two kids and works downtown.  She was mugged in her office building about 20 floors up from where hubby found the wallet.  The scumbag ran down the stairs and hid the wallet, not even bothering to get the cash… so police assumes he was coming back.   Lady was very shaken.   You’re more on guard for this in a parking garage or street, but not inside / top of an office building.

Good news is scumbag was caught.   Bad news is he’ll probably be back on the streets soon.  Too many of these walking around.

I was in Randall’s a few weeks ago.  A male about 55 years old standing too close to me in line -  in my personal space.  My four year old was in a dress and her undies showed a little because she was sitting in the buggy with legs hanging out (no more dresses when going to the store).  This guy was making me very uncomfortable.  I turned to look at him and he was staring at her bottom.  I started making a scene.  Very obvious pervert.  I said a few words and he responded  saying it was not my kid but my radiance.  Yea right.   A real gentleman would have realized momma bear saw him as threat and he’d have backed off.  But this guy just responded with insults.  Pests like that out for little kids need to be removed from the planet.  However, he’d done nothing illegal (right there) but be a jerk.

We just need to be even more careful.  And we can’t assume everyone is out to get us.  This weekend my mom was in the grocery store.  Her bill was $28.  She went to get money from her purse and found her wallet wasn’t there.  She only had $10 cash.  They guy behind her told the checker he’d cover the balance of $18.  He was not a rich looking fellow btw.  When my mom got back to the car, she found her wallet on the floor.  She found the guy in the parking lot and tried to repay the money.  She only had a $20.  He would only take the $20 if he had change to give her $2 back.   He joked that he would not accept a tip.   There are still many good folks out there…. just watch yourself.