Fire Bug Threatens Neighborhood Security

When my kids were young, we had a lunatic neighbor in the ‘hood’. Of course none of us knew that at the time though.

I’d see this young man regularly as he lived right next door. He’d be outside washing his car, raking leaves or mowing the lawn, and we spoke a number of times. He asked me if I’d seen anyone lurking around, watching his house. I said no and asked why. He said he was investigating the JFK murder and uncovered something the FBI didn’t want leaked to the public. He also asked if we had a machete. Ummmm, actually we did have a machete in the garage but I said no to him and he said someone had rushed at him from behind our hedge with a machete in hand and chased him. Yikes, this guy was nutso but seemed harmless!

He was a loner, but we all thought he was one of the good guys as he’d jump in his car and roar up the street in the middle of the night whenever the firehall siren screeched out it’s call. He was a volunteer and was paid when he went on a call. My husband and I volunteered for many causes in our community and I admired that this young man took his duties so seriously.

At the time, it didn’t really seem too odd how there were so many fires around our neighborhood, but upon reflection after the following events, it all made sense.

We arrived home one evening after a lovely family outing to see my car sitting in the driveway with a flat tire. Ugh – we were tired and it was too late to change it right then.

In the morning I went out, got the jack out of the trunk, blocked the front wheels, loosened the lug nuts and started to jack up the car. As the back tire lifted off the gravel I could see matches and burnt wood chips. WTF? This just did not make any sense to me. I called the cops, they asked a few questions then said they were too busy to come out. Again – WTF? This seemed pretty serious to me. They said I’d disturbed any evidence there might have been by jacking the wheel off the ground. Ummmm, ya… but I didn’t find the evidence until I jacked the wheel off the ground – duh!

I talked to a neighbor and he mentioned someone had been setting fires in the neighborhood and the police were aware and investigating one of the volunteer fire fighters. WTF? We had an arsonist in the neighborhood? Okay, now I was scared – my car was sitting about 18 inches from the wood siding on the house and the wooden garage door. If the tire hadn’t blown out the fire when it exploded, it could have burned the entire car and caught the house on fire as well. And, this had all taken place in the daylight hours.

I was a lot nervous, thinking someone had a grudge and would go to those lengths and phoned our local wireless security system installation company, had every door and window alarmed and the system monitored. I taught the kids how to use the system so if they were home alone they were safeguarded, and I made sure we never left the house without activating the alarm.

When you know there are crazies in the neighborhood, it gets a little unnerving to think they might do more than sabotage your vehicle. Now the machete conversation came back to my mind and I had visions of the young man coming to my door when I was home alone.

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Now, you want to hear the ending of my story, don’t you? It’s not pretty.

The police were hot on this young man’s trail and about to make an arrest. We came home after a weekend away and noticed his car was not around and he was nowhere to be seen. The neighbors were eagerly awaiting to tell us of his fate.

He knew the cops were on to him and he wasn’t going to jail. He drove to a local beach park, put a hose from his exhaust through his window, left his car running and went off to a safer place, dreaming of solving the JFK murder mystery.

Our neighborhood quietened right down after he was gone. The firehall siren was seldom heard and we all breathed a big sigh of relief knowing our security system was working hard protecting us from the next lunatic.