Haunted Houses, Trick Or Treating, And A Few Warnings

Haunted Houses, Trick Or Treating, And A Few Warnings

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, I'm Michael Blaze. Welcome to your Home three sixty.
Thanks for tuning in today. Today we're going to do
a special Halloween edition. We'll be talking with Lieutenant Sean
James Charleston County Sheriff's Office. He'll give us some Halloween
safety tips. I'll also be talking with Eric Lavender from
Charleston Pirate Tours and he has a pretty cool haunted
house story for us. Speaking of haunted houses, let's start

(00:24):
today's show by discussing how haunted houses relate to real
estate transactions. Under South Carolina state law, you're required to
fill out a seller's property disclosure and that's where you're
going to disclose any problems that you know of, any
deficiencies that you know of with the property that you're selling.
And somebody actually asked me once, do I have to
disclose if I think that my house is haunted? Well,

(00:48):
the answer is maybe, maybe not. That is called a
stigmatized property, So in other words, there's nothing physically wrong
with the property. It's a mental thing, a psychological thing.
So the properties stigmatized, but there's no physical defects with
the property. So do you need to disclose that? Well,
if you simply just think the house is haunted. No,

(01:09):
or if somebody just died in it. No. When you
should disclose it is if it does affect the house
or the person living in it. So, in other words,
say it's a famous haunted house and say it's down
on the battery and there's a carriage tour that comes
by and stops ten times a day and points to

(01:29):
a bunch of with a bunch of people in the
back and says, well, there's a haunted house, and they're
all talking it up. And you happen to get up
in your bathrobe and you yawn, and you're drinking your coffee.
You look out the window and there's a bunch of
people sitting in the back of a carriage tour looking
back at you. Because your house is supposedly haunted, then yes,
that needs to be disclosed. See what I'm talking about.

(01:50):
Same thing with the death in the property. If it's
a famous place where a murder took place, and it's
on a tour, or there's people you know driving by
and rubberneck at your house all the time, then yes,
that needs to be disclosed. And another way that a
death needs to be disclosed is if it was I mean,
there's really no way to put this gently. If there
was a suicide or something like that and it involves

(02:13):
bodily fluids and so on and so forth, and that
has not been properly cleaned up. If there is biological
matter that has not been properly dealt with, then it
should be disclosed. Now, if it's been properly cleaned and
it's back to like new, then you really don't need

(02:35):
to disclose that. I probably would anyway, I have in
the past, just so people don't freak out if they
do find out about it from say the neighbors or something.
So there you go. A psychologically affected property, one with
a stigma attached to it. Is not a material defect.
So you don't have to disclose hauntings or just somebody
simply dying in there, at least legally you don't, but

(02:58):
you might want to consider disclosing it anyway, just to
be above board with everybody, to keep everybody happy, and
to see why a cover your you know what, And
I'll tell you this too. I've actually given this as
homewarming gifts to some of my clients. My wife is
into smudging. It's not as dirty as it sounds. Have

(03:21):
you heard of smudging before? It's where you take I
can't remember what the plant is, but anyway, they bundle
it into a stick sage, that's what it is, sage,
and you light it and it smokes and you walk
around and you just smoke out all the evil spirits,
all the negative energy in your home. So if you

(03:42):
know that kind of thing, you can buy one of
these smudging kits and smudge your home. If you think
that there's evil spirits or some negative energy in there,
just smudge it on out of there. Hey, if you
have any real estate questions that you want me to
address on the show, or if you just want to
ask me personally his talk some real estate, happy to
do it with you. Call me at eight four three

(04:03):
three two seven nine four five four eight four three
three two seven ninety four fifty four, or you can
email me at Michael Blaze at iHeartMedia dot com. On
the line with me is my good friend Eric Lavender.
I've known Eric for decades now. He and his wife
Sabrina own Charleston Pirate Tours, which has been featured on
the Today Show, the Travel Channel, Lifetime, PBS, NPR, and

(04:27):
many others. Charleston Pirate Tours offers Charleston history tours, pirate tours,
ghost tours, and children's tours. And since I was talking
about haunted houses and stigmatized properties, I thought that I'd
have Eric on to tell a good Charleston haunted house
story today in honor of Halloween. How are you doing today, Eric.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I couldn't be better. Thank you for asking. It's thank
you so much for having me on your show. I
really appreciate it. This is a rare treat for me
to get to talk to him. Old buddies like this.
I appreciate it very much.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, man, you know what, there's something I've been meaning
to ask you that I've never asked you before. This
goes back decades. So we were doing a promotion at
the Windjammer with Captain Morgan's rum and they needed somebody
to play the pirate, you know, Captain Morgan, to give
out some Captain Morgan's booty, and you had volunteered for
the role. So I've often wondered, was that the catalyst

(05:20):
that got you into your business today?

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, it goes a little weird. It's a little more
strange than that, actually, And it goes back, and I'll
try to be as brief as I can and leave
this quick story we had gone. I became a tour
guide in two thousand and six, but prior to that,
in two thousand and three, we were in Orlando on
a vacation and were in a restaurant. Somebody made my
daughter a balloon bunny, and I thought, well, that's kind

(05:45):
of cool.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Unfortunately, when we got to the parking lot, the thing popped.
Well you would have thought that was the first sound
of armageddon. So I promised her that when we got
back home to Charleston, I would go to Barnes and Noble.
I would buy a book and learn how to make
her an the balloon bunny.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
So I did, and I started having fun with it.
And then I made something for some kids at church,
and next thing I know, somebody says, can you do
a birthday party?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well?

Speaker 2 (06:10):
I never done a birthday party? So I did one,
and somebody at that party said can you do my
kids party? And I said, well, this might be a
fun side hustle. So I wanted to do something to
separate myself from the herd, and I said, well kids
like pirates. Bought a pirate outfit and bottle of wood
and box for a treasure chest, started doing pirate birthday parties.
And it wasn't long after I started doing all that.
That was about the time Johnny Depp showed up on

(06:31):
the scene, and so my stock went up really fast.
But then I became a tour guide and somebody knew
I was doing parties dressed like a pirate. And somebody said, well,
you do ghost in history tours. You ever done a
pirate tour? I said, well, now, let me a little
little research, and so I did some research and I
think I threw together maybe an hour and fifteen twenty
minutes worth material just on the fly. And then I

(06:53):
started doing more research and now I could probably talk
on for five or six hours. So that's kind of
how I came from. But you know, you bring up
Captain Morgan. A lot of people don't realize he came
to Charleston. He came to Charleston and in the in
the sixteen nineties after he had gone down to Panama,
and he came to Charleston because he wasn't welcome back
in Jamaica. So he came here with his spoils and

(07:15):
refitted a ship hung out here, and his man had
what would be equivalent to date of millions of dollars
worth of silver and gold. They just had them a
hot good time in.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Charleston with Wow.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
I wish I was there with him, Yeah, I do.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
I could tell you stories about those early days. I
always referred to Charleston back then as colonial Las Vegas, right,
And I didn't realize that he had been here.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
I just I just knew about the rum.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yep, he was here, his neither hearing it there. We're
talking about ghosts, now.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's a very interesting story. I'm glad you shared it. Yeah,
And we are talking about ghosts for Halloween and haunted
houses as a matter of fact. You know, I asked
you to tell a haunted house story for Halloween, and
I was talking about the stigmatized properties before and whether
you have to disclose them or not, and you were.
You sent me a pit picture of a house with
a ghost in the window, but you said the picture

(08:05):
itself is even haunted. And you're like, you know what,
hopefully this comes through because I have trouble with it.
You know, I've got thousands of pictures. I never have
any problems on my computer, but this one always gives
me a problem. And sure enough, how many times did
we try? I gave you two different email addresses, and
you tried three, four or five times to get it
over to me. Yeah, and finally I got the thing opened,
and sure enough, there's a And I asked you, I'm like,

(08:27):
is that a person behind the window there? Or is
that a ghost? So tell us that story.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Okay. This house is actually located on Chalmers Street. It's
called the Pink House most people are familiar with, and
it's a beautiful little house and it's considered really the
oldest house in Charleston. I talked to some previous owners
years ago before they sold it, and he told me
they had found some letters in Ireland somebody, I guess
somebody give them to him dating that house way back

(08:53):
in the sixteen eighties. Now, when it was built, its
purpose was to be a tavern in a brothel, and
it was frequent about it. Lot of pirates. I mean,
the waterfront in those days was literally barely a block
and a half away from that house. Now it's a
lot of things. It was a cavern in a brothel,
it was an attorney's office, and it was an art
gallery for about twenty years. Now that's where this picture

(09:16):
comes into play that I sent you one of the
ladies that worked there. She was one of the artists
in residence of Alice, and she's a sweetheart. I love
Alice's death, And once in a while I would actually
take people into the gallery when I would be on
my pirate tour if I had a small group, so
they could actually see the inside of the place. So anyway,

(09:36):
the story is that she was there one day Alice
had opened up and she's sitting at their little desk
there inside the front door, hadn't had any customers that morning,
and been in there for over an hour, and a
lady came in with her son, and of course she
was happy to see them and invited them to look
all around and said, why don't you go all the
way up to the very top floor, because there's some

(09:57):
really neat art pieces on the very top Now I've
crawled up in to this place, and on the very
top floor is a small enclosed area up there. It's
almost almost have to duck to get into it because
it's right next to the roof. And from what I
understand of the history of the place that was where
the top shelf items were kept, if you know what
I meane, in the brothel anyway, So they went upstairs

(10:19):
and they came down that little narrow staircase, and Alice
invited them to go in into the back in the courtyard.
And there's a beautiful courtyard back there, and so she's
back there with the son and he's taking all these pictures.
He's got this really nice camera. And so after hanging
out in the courtyard and him taking a few more pictures,
they left and Alice said, I didn't even have another

(10:39):
customer for quite some time after that. Well, she had
a nice day the next morning though, when she came
in and opened up, she got settled in. The young
man with his mom came back and they walked in
and said, I wanted to show you something, and I
had a question for you. So the mom's looking at
the sun and said, well, show her the picture. Now.
What he had done was he took his memory card

(11:00):
and all the pictures he had taken the day before,
he had him printed out. I guess at a pharmacy somewhere,
maybe Walmart. And he said, was anybody here yesterday when
we were in your gallery, and she said, no, you
all the first people I've seen all morning, and I
didn't see anybody else for a while.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
After you left.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
And then he laid that picture down that I finally
got to you and said, well, then, who is this?
And Alice said, I have no idea because there was
nobody else in here but me and she and Alice
always swore that place was haunted. Now that picture I
sent you is not doctored. It is not a photoshop picture.
That is at what that young man downloaded off his

(11:36):
memory card, and that is what printed out.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
And you can clearly see a human face. Eric, there's
you know some of these where it's like, oh, there's
a ghost and there's maybe a faint bright light, you know,
or maybe outline or something like this, you can clearly
see a human.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
It looks like the features of her face.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, you can. I mean, it looks like somebody's literally
sitting right behind the glare, yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
And watching them in the courtyard. And they had just
left that room and went straight out of that room,
down the steps and out the back door in the courtyard.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
So what was their reaction. What was Alice's reaction was
she was blown away did she get scared at all? Over?

Speaker 2 (12:14):
But no, it would take a lot scare outs. And
she's always she told me that that place was haunted.
She said, I hear knocks and bumps in here all
the time. She said, I just think it's funny. I mean,
it doesn't bother her in the least. And obviously, whoever
this person is that this haunting is not destructive, it's
not harmful. It's just hanging out. But look at that picture.

(12:36):
And I make this remark. I'll say, on my pirate tours,
when I walked by the building, and I'll tell you know,
as far as Charleston standards go, said, when the Chiuse
was sold, it did come fully equipped. It even has
a ghost. And I said, I've got a photograph of
that ghost. And I tell you, if that was the
best this brothel had to offer back in the day,
then wolf And I'll say, if somebody went in there

(13:00):
and threw up a quayo sheet point. But anyway, it's
uh because it's not exactly she's not exactly what i'd
call top shilf. But anyway, she is in the top
Shilf room where that picture came from. But hey, there
you go.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well, I appreciate the story, and you know what, I'm
gonna try to share the picture. I'm trying to think
about the best way to do it. I'm gonna put
it on my on my Facebook page. Go to go
to Michael Blaze FSRI on Facebook, Michael Blaze FSRI on Facebook,
and I'll have that picture up there and we can
share it if I can get it to load. Eric,
after all the problem problems that we have with it, Yeah,

(13:36):
I know.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now, all I'll say is when you email it, if
you see smoke coming out of the cracks of man
of those computers there in the studio, it's not my fault.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
I won't I won't blame you. I invited you in.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Here by my I'm gonna crash the house and me.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
By my own volition. Well, there's so many interesting stories
with Charleston. I mean, there's you know, back from the
pirate days, and we go back so far to the
sixteen hundreds that there's plenty of ghosts. Yeah, sixteen seventy,
So there's plenty of ghost stories, pirate stories, and it's
all very interesting. And if you want to have a

(14:13):
fun time and learn something at the same time, go
take a tour with Eric and check out the Charleston
Pirate tours that I, like I said, been featured all
over all these great TV networks and everything. And Eric,
what do people need to do to find out more
or to book a tour.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
They can go to a website. There's a link run
on there to our boxes online box office. The other
thing I will mention is this in addition to doing
pirate tours in the daytime, and we also offer which
is very unique at daytime ghost tour because their sections
at Charleston there's off limits after six o'clock. You cannot

(14:53):
go there. And there are some marvelous stories about some
of those houses as they put at South Abroad and
not go at night. And Sabrina leads that tour and
there are some fascinating stories and some houses you can
see and some of the stories behind those. And one
other thing I'll mention, we are, as far as I know,

(15:13):
unless somebody's changed in the last couple of days, we're
the only tour company that offers something directly featuring and
targeting children. Because my tour is a very long and
involved tour. It's two hours of how pirates and involved
with our social and economics and Charleston. But the kids
tour is in White Point Gardens and it's a treasure hunt.

(15:33):
They still get treasure, they still get history. They get
a lot of cool little perks the sword and bandana
and make their own flags and look for treasure and
get something on a treasure chests. The cool thing is
it's all in the park and it's only an hour long.
It is directly geared for children.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well, that sounds a great fun. And your website's charlestonpiratetour
dot com.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Right, that's it, and they can go right on that website,
find our online box office and pick up a ticket.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well, it sounds you, It sounds great, And thanks for
taking your time today, Eric, I know you're a busy guy,
and thanks for real pleasure, the fun and the interesting stories.
And we'll have to do it again.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Well sure will anytime. Brother. You take care of yourself,
you too, Eric. Happy Halloween.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
So, keeping with the Halloween theme, I thought it might
be a good idea to discuss some Halloween safety on
the line with me, Lieutenant Shawn James with the Charleston
County Sheriff's Office.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
How are you doing today, Lieutenant doing great, sir, how
are you.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
I'm doing just fine. So first let's start with how
to keep your house safe, not only for you, but
also for your visitors for Halloween.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Absolutely one of the first things you want to do.
Of course, if you plan on participating in the Halloween tradition,
then you want to turn on your porch light. That's
the first thing that people are going to look for
is the Halloween. Is the light being on for Halloween,
so that kids will know and parents will know to
come up to your porch or to actually skip to
the next house.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
There's all kinds of stuff that parents have to be
cognizant of if you're out trick or treating, tripping hazard cars,
if you're out in the road in groups, down to
the candy that you're collecting from people's houses. So what
kind of pointers can you give to parents that are
taking their kids out through the neighborhood trick or treating.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
So I got some pointers for both, you know, and
so for the house. Going back to that, don't forget
that if you have you know dogs that dogs have teeth.
So we all say our dogs won't bite, right, they
don't bite unless they're put into a predicament that may
cause them to bite. So we want to also make
sure they recognizant of placing our canines and putting them
up so that so that's safe. So let's make sure

(17:32):
that we definitely don't forget that. Next is when you're
walking around, you got your kids in a group, make
sure that you stay in the best group that you can.
And then if your kids do, for whatever, get lost
right or get misplaced, I guess we'll call it. But
if that happens, make sure that they know your phone number,
make sure they know the parents phone number of the
guardians that they're with, and of course no, none, one one.
It's one of the biggest things. The next thing is,

(17:54):
of course having a flashlight, maybe a glow stick, or
some reflective clothing or reflective tape. I think that's a
pretty big thing. Sure you've seen that before.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Correct, mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Now when we talk about walking, okay, if a neighborhood
doesn't have sidewalks, make sure that you walk against traffic. Okay,
Bikes go with traffic on the same side of the road,
and if you're walking, you want to go against traffic
as far as you can toward the shoulder.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Of the road.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
And that's so you can see the cars coming. Not
only is it the law, but it's actually for safety.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, so in case you need to see if the
drivers are paying any attention, if you need to get
out of the way.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Right, absolutely, absolutely, And try not to wear your mask
when you're walking, Okay. So you know, kids got these
masks on a lot of times they're too big for
their head and they're walking around, they can't see, they're
walking blindly, and of course they're going to trip and
injure themselves. So you know, they obviously want to walk
up in the yard and spook the homeowner as they
walk up with their mask on. So as soon as

(18:48):
you get up into the yard, then it's a safe
time to actually put your mask down what you get
near the door.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, And I'll share a quick story with you from
experience with one of my own kids. So you want
to be Spider Man, And it was one of those
plastic face masks that you wear, you know, along with
the Spider Man costume, and and those things are are
hard to see out of. And and we walked to
each house with him, but we stood out by the
road and all of a sudden he disappears behind the shrubs,

(19:16):
and I hear kind of a clunk, and I don't
see him go to the front door or anything. And
I'm like, Michael, Michael, and I go up there and
he's just splayed out on the concrete, you know, he was.
He missed the step there because of his mask and
fell down. I felt so sorry for the poor kid,
and he bunked his head and we ended up going
and have to go to the doctor and all that. So, uh, yeah,
make sure that they can you know, see out of

(19:38):
their costume.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Absolutely absolutely, and also be careful with these simulated knives
and guns with these costumes, that kids aren't walking around
with a simulated gun and pointing at people, and you know,
so that's one thing we always do, you know, want
to make sure that we're safe when we have those
type things. Also, we asked that if you have a
child that's under fourteen, that they have adult super provision.

(20:00):
This is not required by law. This is kind of
just a request something that we kind of put out there.
You know, most kids over the age of fourteen probably
aren't trick or treating, but we know that there's some.
I mean, I'm sure Mike you probably go out there
and actually probably trick or treat.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Still, oh, I still fill up my pillow sack is
the best I can every year.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
I knew it.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
I knew it.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
And don't forget about drivers. So remember some drivers are
maybe not paying attention, So pay attention to cars. You
may think they see you, but they may not see you.
So make sure that if you're a driver, make sure
you slow down, pay attention. Some kid might run from
behind a bush because he's excited to go across the
road because he hears they're giving out snickers, and you

(20:41):
want to ensure that if you're driving, please please be careful.
And if you don't have to drive, then don't get
out and just drive around.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Do parents really have to worry about the candy that
the kids are collecting? You know, you hear the horror
stories about razor blades and needles and poison and all that.
I've heard that that's more of an urban myths and
that there really aren't hardly any, if any at all
documenting cases of people, you know, sticking razor blades, your
pins in the candy. You're poisoning the candy, You're attacking

(21:12):
the kids that way.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
So to touch on the first note, I mean, have
I ever heard of anybody putting a razor blade anything candy?
I'm sure you could find the internet that that has
occurred somewhere, So you know, you don't want to say
not to pay attention to it. But at the same time,
is that common. I think it's extremely rare. But what
you do want to pay attention for is open candy.
You want to look through it, make sure that you
don't have any open candy that's in there that maybe

(21:34):
somebody ate out of and put back in there they
didn't like it. Also, of course, we're still dealing with
the coronavirus, right, so you may want to knowing that
this has touched many hands, you may want to, you know,
wipe the candy packages down. One thing I will tell
you is is don't give out fruit. I think that's
something that used to be kind of popular, and I

(21:55):
don't know any people that give out fruit now, But
that's something with the coronavirus going down that people have asked,
please don't have my child any kind of fruit that's
in there, because fruit is porous, right, And so then
we're worried about, of course being able to wipe something down.
You can't really wipe fruit down as well as something
that's contaminated.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, probably not a good idea. And some people, I
mean it's you know, it's a good gesture, but like
to make rice crispy treats or homemade treats, Probably not
such a great idea either, Probably better off handling them
something wrapped. One more thing I wanted to touch on,
and by the way, I saw a funny meme the
other day where it said those little prepared salads. The

(22:36):
somebody put up a fake ad for dull mini Halloween
salads that you could hand out little bags of salads.
So if you ought to torture the kids, that would
be a good way to do it. Just drop a
little bag of salad in there, Mike.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
One thing I will say is please don't invite anyone
in your house if you don't know them, and also
don't go into someone's else. That's one thing. Stay outside
the front door. Some people will say, here, hold the door,
come in. We don't want to make that a habit.
We don't want to indy to get into that habit
of inviting somebody in. And if you know them partially
obviously that's that's a personal choice versus someone you don't know.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, And the best thing, I mean, whether you're a
parent or out, like you said, you don't need to
be this cruising around the neighborhood. Be safe and cognizant
of all the kids and the families that are out
on the road if you are driving through your subdivision
or anywhere else for that matter, and just knowing that
there's a plenty of little kids running around and you
have to take extra caution. And I appreciate all the pointers, Lieutenant.
So I want to shift gears a little bit here

(23:35):
and talk about car security. So I was just reading
an article that the other night, something like thirty cars
were broken into. And this was not the usual crime
of opportunity that you hear about where people keep their
cars unlocked. They actually broke into locked cars, smash the
windows out and broke into these automobiles, stole everything from there.

(23:55):
Was a couple of guns, stolen wallets, credit cards, you know,
the usual stuff, golf clubs that people keep in their cars.
And so I wanted to touch on and remind people
what should they do whether the car is parked in
your driveway or you live in a condo or apartment
community complex. What should people do to keep their cars
secure and safe?

Speaker 4 (24:15):
And I tell you, I mean, there's nothing worse than
working hard for what you've earned and what you have
as your property and then find out that someone victimizes
you and steals your stuff that you've worked hard for
and they haven't you know, the night you will hide
in the darkness. I mean happens a lot and people
going out there and you don't see it.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
I said.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
One of the things I can say is making sure
if you don't have a camera, they're very inexpensive now
to put these ring cameras up or these other companies
that make cameras be able to put them on your doors.
It really helps law enforcement and also helps track a
timeline as well. Make sure that you lock your car doors.
It is very almost rare. I would say that nine
out of ten car break ins are actually left open

(24:59):
cars they're left open, so breaking the window usually a
lot of times that means there's something that they've spotted
that they want, unless they're just out damaging vehicles. So
one thing I can say is is even if you
just have a damaged vehicle, you don't find anything stolen.
You say, oh they did was rummage through my car,
You need to call and report it. If you don't
report it, then we can't track it. And we have
crime statistics, and we have crime analysis that actually tracks

(25:22):
these things. It tracks timelines. We can figure out whether
or not they're on foot, on a bicycle, or in
a vehicle by the timeline. So if you don't let
us know, we can't track anything. So even if they
don't steal anything, just know there is a law that
is against the law to hamper with a motor vehicle.
So if I pull up your door handle and then
tip to commit a crime, that is a violation of

(25:43):
the law and it isn't arrestable of fence. Okay, guns,
whatever you do, do not leave guns in your car
and also out locked in the glove box. Don't leave
a gun in your car. If for whatever reason you
did leave a gun in your car, it's sure that
you have a serial number. We can't track a gun
without a serial number. Another thing that you make sure
an officer does a report, so ask them, can make
sure you get the report number, but you can give
it to your insurance company if they need it. And

(26:04):
of course ask your neighbors if they saw anything. You
may not know your neighbors. Maybe you do, maybe you don't,
but they may have a camera that's on their house.
They may have seen something. And of course if you
have a car break and don't touch the car, whatever
you do, you don't want to touch the car so
that we can fingerprint and process it and make sure
that we can actually and fingerprints can be raised up

(26:25):
to two weeks afterwards. Remember if fingerprint is of oil,
and of course even if it rains, we could still
raise a fingerprint off of a vehicle.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Well, all very good stuff to know, Lieutenant Sean James,
Charleston County Sheriff's Office. Lieutenant, thanks for your time and
have a happy Halloween. Yes, sir, well, I just saw
the headless horseman ride by, so I guess that means
it's the end of today's show. Thanks for tuning into
your home three sixty today. Thanks to today's guest, Lieutenant
Sehn James, Charleston County Sheriff's Office. Also to Eric Lavender,

(26:54):
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Happy Halloween.