[namie]

Heading out with DS1 today and I noticed a piece of paper in my letterbox. Turns out it is an anonymous letter from one of my neighbours which reads (typed exactly as written including the CAPS):

IMPORTANT NOTICE
SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES

DEAR NIEGHBOURS.

IAM WRITING TWO MAKE YOU AWARE THAT WE HAVE A DRUG
DEALLER OPERRATING IN OUR STREET,
AS A CONCERN PARENT, PASSING ON THIS INFORMATION, FOR SAFETY
OF OUR CHILDREN. WE SHOULD NOTIFY THE POLICE AND HAVE THIS
PERSON/PERSONS REMOVED FROM OUR STREET.

THEY ARE OPERATING FROM:
XX XXXXXXXX STREET
[SUBURB]

TOGETHER WE SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION,
TWO REMOVE THEM AND CLEAN UP OUR STREET.

THANK YOU FOR READING THIS LETTER.

Since I was heading to the park with DS1 and the house in question was on our way, I took the opportunity to sticky beak at the residence supposedly tenanted by drug dealers. I was sadly disappointed by what I saw. I'm sure it takes all types to keep our neighbourhood in whatever drugs are supposedly being dealt from this house, but would someone of such business pursuits be likely to have a garden gnome-lined driveway? Would they have girly ornaments on the windowsill of an upstairs window? Would they have the killer Christmas lights display that covered the house last Christmas? Maybe. Maybe not.

I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do from here. There were no contact details provided, so even if I wanted to call and help create a vigilante group, I can't. I can hardly call the police and say, 'Based on a letter in my letterbox and no other evidence' [ie. no tied up shoes across the powerline, no darkened windows, no expensive car in the drive, no people of ill repute loitering], 'I'd like to report some drug dealers living in my street', I think I'd be laughed at.

WWYD? Ignore it and presume there may be an intra-street feud brewing? Ignore and presume it's a really late April Fools joke? Call the police and mention someone dropping junk mail in an attempt to incite hatred (even though the police most likely have a hundred other things to do)? Ignore it but have a laugh at the typos/spelling mistakes?

[FrogIsAFrogIsAFr...]

Do nothing.

Some people have too much time on their hands.

[Guest_holy_j_*]

IF that's genuine, umm what a wuss. Can't even put their name to the letter. I would throw it in the bin and do absolutely nothing. All you have is an anonymous letter's writers say so, that said people are drug dealers!

[*Lib*]

Ignore it.....but JFYI - it takes all kinds to be drug dealers...send int he dogs or some such show had a granny on it a few weeks ago. She was dealing pot!

[--binda--]

They don't have to be feral to be dealers.


I would just keep an eye out now myself for suspicious activity...

[*Lib*]

They don't have to be feral to be dealers.

I'd be more concerned about the bogan who wrote the letter.......

[katpaws]

Hmm... sometimes gnomes are very suspicious....

[creepersgonnacre...]

Hmm... sometimes gnomes are very suspicious....

snort

[namie]

Love it, katpaws!

Apart from the spelling errors, I almost feel like it is an elderly person who wrote it. I can picture it being typed one finger at a time, lol. There are a few elderly people living in the houses around the house in question, and they perhaps have too much time on their hands. I don't really understand why you wouldn't at least put a first name and a landline number on such a letter though.

I will keep an eye out, but honestly, I don't think I've ever seen anyone in or around the house whenever I've been past. I wouldn't really know what to look out for.

[trishalishous]

id ignore it