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Britain has been doing odd jobs for our neighbors across the street to help make his child support payments. They've recently had a rash of problems with someone breaking into their car. The first time, it was clear someone had driven it. Kathy, our neighbor, decided to block it off at night by parking a camper directly behind it so that nobody could drive off with the car unless the camper was moved. The next problem was someone stealing gas and leaving the car a mess when they couldn't drive away with it after the first time. This morning they found ashes, cigarette butts, and one of my family's flashlights in the car.
My older brother told us that he didn't have any idea about the other break-ins, but tried to pass off this last one as him going over to sit in the car and smoke some cigs he found there (the neighbor has been smoke-free for over two years). It's such a terrible lie, and mom's pissed off about it. Not nearly as pissed as the Kathy's kid, though. Shawn's with federal law enforcement and asked my brother over there for a talk around three in the afternoon. When he got back, he didn't say anything about what they discussed. I was half-expecting to get a call saying they'd taken him to the detention center.
You know what probably got him to the point of stealing our neighbor's car for the night? He started off taking my little brother's truck, but Lane cornered him about it. Then, he decided to swipe mom's car instead, and she blew her top at him (as a rural mail carrier, her car is literally our livelihood). Getting pretty hard up for whatever use he's putting these cars to, he must have started taking our spare key for the neighbor's car. I thought he was just going out to buy cigs, or possibly drugs. Shawn thinks he's been "renting" the cars out to drug dealers. From what I gleaned of their conversation, he has threatened to shoot Brit if he ever finds him in their yard at night. I know he's serious about that. Britain's made himself entirely scarce the rest of the day, not leaving his room and not asking us for any dinner even.
At this point it would be a relief to just be rid of him for a very long time. He's not trustworthy, he hasn't changed, and he keeps abusing whatever trust we put to him. I want him out of the house before he starts turning on us even more and ripping off our money and valuables again (he might already be taking money from mom's purse). It looks like he's turning desperate again.
I want him gone so that we don't have to live with this anymore, but I don't know if mom will go for that just yet. She's not taking the news well, she's already stressed her close relationship with the neighbors over this car thing, and after hearing my brother's lie about not trying to take the car she snapped at me and my little brother, threatening to leave all of us and sell the house. She's always been reluctant to deal with my brother's criminal issues, and she definitely isn't taking this well right before Easter, when the family is supposed to all be closer and relax around each other.
I think she might be holding off on any decision until after the holiday, maybe she wants to spend one more Easter as a family. I don't know. I really don't think we should be wasting time and keeping him around, he's already proven that he's a remorseless thief again. It's like sitting with a ticking time bomb in the house. If it were my decision, he would have had his bags packed and already been out of the house hours ago.
My older brother told us that he didn't have any idea about the other break-ins, but tried to pass off this last one as him going over to sit in the car and smoke some cigs he found there (the neighbor has been smoke-free for over two years). It's such a terrible lie, and mom's pissed off about it. Not nearly as pissed as the Kathy's kid, though. Shawn's with federal law enforcement and asked my brother over there for a talk around three in the afternoon. When he got back, he didn't say anything about what they discussed. I was half-expecting to get a call saying they'd taken him to the detention center.
You know what probably got him to the point of stealing our neighbor's car for the night? He started off taking my little brother's truck, but Lane cornered him about it. Then, he decided to swipe mom's car instead, and she blew her top at him (as a rural mail carrier, her car is literally our livelihood). Getting pretty hard up for whatever use he's putting these cars to, he must have started taking our spare key for the neighbor's car. I thought he was just going out to buy cigs, or possibly drugs. Shawn thinks he's been "renting" the cars out to drug dealers. From what I gleaned of their conversation, he has threatened to shoot Brit if he ever finds him in their yard at night. I know he's serious about that. Britain's made himself entirely scarce the rest of the day, not leaving his room and not asking us for any dinner even.
At this point it would be a relief to just be rid of him for a very long time. He's not trustworthy, he hasn't changed, and he keeps abusing whatever trust we put to him. I want him out of the house before he starts turning on us even more and ripping off our money and valuables again (he might already be taking money from mom's purse). It looks like he's turning desperate again.
I want him gone so that we don't have to live with this anymore, but I don't know if mom will go for that just yet. She's not taking the news well, she's already stressed her close relationship with the neighbors over this car thing, and after hearing my brother's lie about not trying to take the car she snapped at me and my little brother, threatening to leave all of us and sell the house. She's always been reluctant to deal with my brother's criminal issues, and she definitely isn't taking this well right before Easter, when the family is supposed to all be closer and relax around each other.
I think she might be holding off on any decision until after the holiday, maybe she wants to spend one more Easter as a family. I don't know. I really don't think we should be wasting time and keeping him around, he's already proven that he's a remorseless thief again. It's like sitting with a ticking time bomb in the house. If it were my decision, he would have had his bags packed and already been out of the house hours ago.