Posted on 01/31/2012 8:54:52 PM PST by smokingfrog
My great grandfather lost a herd? (more than one) of cows to oleander in CA in the late 1800s.
FTA:
Burbank and his family had packed their furniture and belongings into a shed in their backyard seven years ago when he was assigned to Fort Hood.
“We would come back periodically to get away,” Hollie Burbank said. “We also let other relatives live there off and on while we were gone.”
According to investigators, the squatters had broken open a door and lived in the wood frame house about two days before being discovered. They slept on an old mattress on the floor and put all the Burbanks’ belongings outside to sell.
One of Hollie Burbank’s relatives happened to drive by Tuesday and reported the situation.
“I don’t know what’s gone. But there are a lot of sentimental things there that I could never replace,” Hollie Burbank said. Among them was the torn photo of her grandmother that investigators found on the lawn.
Evans and some firefighters worked in the rain to gather the family’s belongings still there and return them to the shed.
“This just isn’t right,” he said.
When I was a boy there were some campers who died doing just that.
doesn’t stealing a house seem like something that would violate a parole?
Soon to be one of the before/after - faces of meth.
Good thing they had good drafting, because the fumes are indeed also toxic.
“I clearly heard him say he was going to kill me”...
Well..... he does look a little bit like cousin Jake. :D
Where were the Burbank’s neighbors... didn’t anyone ask “Who are these people?” and contact the Burbanks or the police to let them know something suspicious was going on?
Holy carp! That’s scary!
I am sorry to hear that.
A relative noticed the yard sale and turned the squatters in to th epolice.
Well, it became a family legend.
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