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November 17, 2025 12 mins
How many times does someone have to pass by your house before you notice them? What if they stare into your house? What if they were a kid? Find out how Emily handled this exact situation in her neighborhood with an alleged "rock thrower".
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Emily is starting to get a little sky on
us and become a little bit of a neighborhood to
say that menace if you will. There's been quite a
few things that you've had taken an issue with in
your neighborhood. Of course, we had the great parking incident
of the woman that was parking near your house.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
You didn't like out front of my house.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
It was across the street. Well, they did both to
be clear.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
To be clear, they did both to be she would
be clear my side and across the street. She would
go there.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
She'd park there late at night because I think she
worked at a bar or something. She would park there.
She'd sit in her car.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I had it on a green camera, drinking a White
Claws tall can and then she'd leave the white.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Cloths, not bothering anybody.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
And I think that's weird that you're doing that, first
of all.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
And her house was around the corner, four houses down,
so half a block.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Away, and you own the street. Now, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
It's very strange behavior when there's no nothing but open
parking spots, and she had the driveway spot.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Okay, okay, I don't live in a area with where
it's congested. Oh so that's odd, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
You You also didn't like when somebody was taking their
lunch break and in the shade part of your giant
unkept hedges and just chilling say that. Well, I mean,
I'm just painting a picture.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Here was soup in his car.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
He was taking his lunch break and just sitting there
by any businesses?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I mean matter, where where is he? Where is he
taking a break from? Why? Why is he all the
way in a residential neighborhood. It's weird.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
One time you made soup in your bedroom.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Who are you to judge a man who soup in
his car going through a remodel sack.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
There's been a lot of different things, a lot of parking.
She just doesn't want anyone anywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
The r V guy that looked like straight out of
Breaking Bad Walter White was in their cooking.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
It turns out it wasn't.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
It was they were remodeling their home or something. It
was like a father and son.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
That was the only one.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I was no, no, no. There was a lot of things,
a lot of things that are going on. You're all
is watching, which is weird?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Always watching?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, you your kitchen window like faces the street, right, Yeah,
that's why you're always kind of surveying.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, the kitchen.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Window faces the faces one side of my because I'm
a corner house. Kitchen window faces one side, big window
that I could just see everything unobstructed view of the street.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
And people passing by.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
You're weirdly pumped.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
That's the dream and then dream, Yeah, mad, I don't
have one of those.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
And then the front part like around the like I
mean it's one big room basically my living room and
kitchen and.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
That other part on one side of the street.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
The front part of like that's the front door part
that has tons of windows and they're always open. You
see it all so like, and that's an unobstructed view
of the street too lucky. And I'm perched up so
I kind of down right man.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
So you're seeing all the activity, all activity. Wow, any
any strange behavior that may be going on, you're going
to be witnessed to it. Yeah, And that's what recently
has been going on. I guess you could quantify it
as straight behavior. Yes, right, correct, What is the what
is the deal? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:03):
So like at around like two o'clock every day, if
I don't have a couple of errands to run two
or three. I'm I'm in the kitchen and moving about
the kitchen in the living room two.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Like around two or three, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Cleaning up tidy and doing dishes, doing things like that.
There's always something to be done. I feel like in
that area in my eyes appeal, I'm seeing everything. Wow,
I'm seeing everything started at that time, he's on watch.
I am on watch, and so I was doing that
last week and I'm sitting there doing stuff around the kitchen.
And then that's when I see a kid on a
bike drive by and kind of go past the front

(03:36):
of the house, hangs a right, so then he's going
past the other corner part of the house. And then
I see him just go by. It's like a kid,
also a kid that I've never seen before. Now, we
know all of our neighbors, like almost all of them,
like we all are our friends and so we know everybody,
and so I didn't recognize him. Stranger, stranger, danger.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
And you're saying kid, what kid?

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Probably around like ten, ten or eleven then, or he
could have been like a small twelve year old.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I couldn't really tell. He's somewhere around that age and
a smaller.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Count the rings.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's what we need to do.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
And so he cruises my fine whatever, who cares. Then
all of a sudden I see him. He must have
went down like half a block away and then did
a U turn. He came zipping around the other way,
like back the back the other way. Then he comes
zipping around the other way. So I'm like, oh, this kid,
who I've never seen before is doing like just like
laps back and forth.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Whatever.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
That's fine, not that strange. He's a kid. He's a
kid right in his bike.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
He's a kid. Reid was in the garage at the time,
working on his bike, of course, doing legit.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
I've come to the conclusion he takes it apart and
then puts it back together, like but he does.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
But he's not improving it in any way.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
He says he is, but he'll like take it off
and like hose it down the frame and then put
it back together.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
It's the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
He just likes to pretend he's a mechanic.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Absolutely, it's completely true.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
So he's the he's the garage hanging out and that's
when I go to go talk to him about something
in the garage and I see that kid that's on
the bike come by again, and.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
He slows down really slow.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
And like barely like barely moving, does end up coming
to a stop and just stares at my house like
he just stares, silent, no facial expression, no words.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
I think a lot of people do that when they're
looking at your landscaping and the screams that are coming.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
From the normally a gate.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yes, really, I mean if you drive by, you have
to slow down and marvel at it. I mean, I
don't think have you ever seen the house in it?
Very similar, very similar?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
My house is in dairy Really just say it.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
I mean, it is freaky.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
It is a freaking Okay, it is a freaking Now,
is kids staring at you guys in the garage or
is he just staring at your house and doesn't know
that you guys are in the garage.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
You could see us in the garage because there's no
nothing obstructing it. He's staring at both. He's kind of
you and the house kind of like looking at us,
kind of looking at the house.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Like mad mugging or like just kind of.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
Mad mugging, well like giveing you like a dirty low
like looking tough or like just kind of zoning out.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
It was a weird look.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
It wasn't nasty, but it also wasn't a smile, and
he wasn't saying anything.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
He just stood.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
There and like paused his bike and then and then
I looked at him, and then he went and took off.
Probably was sitting there staring for about like about forty
five seconds, which is still a kind of a long time.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
Oh maybe he heard this is the house where the
woman will show her breast.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Something that was an accident and I flashed one of
Reed's friends.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Okay twice twice.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
So maybe the words out, yeah, yeah, maybe yeah. I
just slow enough, maybe I'll see.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
I totally get this one. I'm that age. Oh wow,
that's a chance to see a boob.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh man, that's not what's going on.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
So then all of a sudden, I'm back at the
house and then he goes by again, slows down again for.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
The same same day, same day, same kid. Then he
goes and does it again later, going down and staring.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
This time, he's like really sitting there staring, and I'm like,
this is weird. Now this has happened like three times.
Now I need to go see what's going on?

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Wait? What weird? Why is that weird? He's a little kid?

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Because what the hell is this kid doing?

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Well? Maybe he's looking at read wondering, first of all,
why is this kid working on a bike like he's
a mechanic. Maybe he wants to make friends with him
or like, you know, I don't know, there's a lot
of possibilities.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Reed, did yell from the garage, hey, what's up? Can
I help you?

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Or whatever?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
And the kid took off? So that did happen?

Speaker 1 (07:33):
That's aggressive?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Well, I mean the kids are staring like so.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Then I end up seeing him this last time, just
like the third or fourth time that he's sitting and
then going in front and then pausing. I go outside, okay,
and I please, I got no?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
I Hey, can I help you with something?

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Why? Why does this bother you so much?

Speaker 3 (07:54):
He's ten, but he's like the way he's sitting there
staring is like something's off, like somethings like something's going on,
like like he's either not okay like like or he's
evil and possessed. I swear to God, I was going
through all of you.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Why I need to figure out why this kid is
sitting like, does he have something weird going on at home?
Like look a friend like chained up in his house?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
I don't know, really went to crazy place?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
So I do. So I go out and go, hey,
can I can I help you?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
You mean about it? Or were you nice?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
I was mediocre?

Speaker 3 (08:29):
I wasn't mean, but I also was I wasn't like
I sweetie.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
We've heard when you're a mediocre, it's not the nicest.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
I would take that as mean. I was a sensitive child.
What do you want that I can guarantee you.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Wasn't that help something? It wasn't that take a picture
last longer?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Oh? Punk? It wasn't that? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Okay, yeah yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:49):
What? So I asked him, what's going on? Can I
help you with something?

Speaker 3 (08:53):
And then he doesn't say anything once again, no no
verbal comment to me, and then he takes off. Okay,
so that that was earlier last week, right Monday, I
think it was. Then we go to the next day
and as the kid leaves, though on Monday, Reed did
tell me that I said, have you seen this kid
in the neighborhood before? He said he's seen him before

(09:13):
and he thinks he heard from another neighbor kid tell
him that that kid will drive around and throw rocks
at houses.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's what.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Here we go, right, that's what he said. This other
do you believe that this kid's driving back and forth
I'm getting house?

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, that's well, now you know if it did happen,
you know exactly which kid it is, So who cares?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, well, so I don't want that to happen. This
is odd behavior.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
The kid comes back the next day and kind of
is doing the same thing again. At this point, I
wasn't very nice, not bothering me, But well, now I
know that he's a rock thrower.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
But you don't know that. You don't know that at all.
What a crazy thing. Okay, that's what the said.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
So then I go out and now I'm like suspect
of this kid. Then it's a little more aggressive because
oh my god.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Hey, what are you doing? Can I help you? Can
you stop stopping in front of our house.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
You don't have the right to say that. You said
that to a ten year old child. Are you proud
of yourself? Are you proud of yourself?

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I am?

Speaker 1 (10:21):
That's disgusting.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
I am.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
I was thinking about finding out where he lived what
and going to talk to his parents and make sure
everything's okay.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
You're crazy. You're crazy. You're crazy.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
I need to see the person chained up.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
You're the crazy. This is the odd behavior. It's a
kid riding his bike in a neighborhood. Okay, I'm not
staring at you. He's done nothing.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Something's up.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
I imagine this. Your son may or may not have
been a little bit of a neighborhood menace, riding around
on his bike, you know, blowing up stuff and jumping
around and doing crazy stuff all the time on his bike.
You imagine if he was riding around and some neighbor
came over and knocked on your door and said, hey,
your kid's riding around his bike and he stops at

(11:07):
my house and I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
And he stares at my house quietly, and I'm wondering
what's going on.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
You. You wouldn't be like, well, has he done something bad? No? Nothing,
He just stops and it really bothers me. Wouldn't you
wouldn't you be pissed? Okay, that's a lie. That's a lie.
That's a lie.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
He's not stopping and stared at people like a freak show.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
No, he's doing worse stuff. He's probably the rock thrower.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Oh, I'm gonna get to the bottle.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
You're not gonna do anything. You're gonna follow this kid home.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
Stay tuned, you're stopping statue.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
I swear to guy. The other day I was driving
a little sight of him zipping by.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
That's you're creepy. You're creepy. I am not the creeps.
You gotta follow this kid home and then say something
to his parents. And what would you say? Hey, Okay,
Now she's so sweet. She's so sweet.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
I lived down on this corner over here. I've seen
that your kid is driving by a lot on his bike,
which is great and fun and I love kids on
their bikes, and.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
I just that shows off her to everybody.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
And he's I've noticed he stops and slows down, and
then he'll stop and stare at our house for like
a solid minute, and then he'll do it over and
over again.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
I'm just making sure everything's okay. Is he okay?

Speaker 1 (12:28):
You don't think that's insane. You don't think that's insane.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
I want to know he was doing that.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
I mean, there's a lot of things being a creep.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
This is bad all do that? See what happens? Sorry,
you don't know that you don't know that zero proof
crazy

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