UPS verified delivery of the package to my front door at 1451hrs. Only problem – – it wasn’t there. So I checked the camera which shows anyone at my front door. I was shown leaving the house at 0954hrs and returning at 1525hrs., but of the UPS man – nothing.

So I checked my street camera and did indeed see the UPS truck – pass my house at 1449hrs going further up the cul-de-sac, and returning past my house at 1451:43hrs. Just enough time to drop off a package somewhere.

Since there are only three houses past my house, I started by going to the Gulbransen’ s. They were not home, but my package was snuggled against their front door. I would have eventually gotten my package, when one of the Gulbransens arrived home, found it and brought it over, but it was nice that I was able to track the UPS man, and have an idea of where my package must have been delivered.

It’s nice to have cameras. If someone had stolen the package from my front door I would have had a pictorial record of them, from several cameras, all time stamped and everything, to show police.

This was a far cry from the time several years ago BC (before cameras) when the USPS said it had delivered a package with some important papers, but then could not tell me where they were and I had no proof that they had not delivered the package.

These are confirmed pictures, taken off my home security cameras, of the German Shepherds that several of the people in the Neighborhood have had run-ins with.

The owners of the dogs have been located. They said they knew the dogs had gotten out, but did not know of the trouble they were causing. They have taken steps to insure that the dog’s enclosure is more secure. If you see the dogs out in the future please refer to the Alert Notification we sent out to Neighborhood members for the owners phone numbers or call Kirk Hall at 253-840-0411.

This is a good example of why we need to let people know of problems in the Neighborhood. Without communications between neighbors, things might have gone along until serious problems occurred, and Animal Control was called. We will send out Alert Notifications when we have information about Neighborhood problems, and post the information on the Neighborhood Blog. When you write Dav ( daveide@comcast.net ) or Kirk ( kahalljr@comcast.net ) please include as much information you can (date, time, location, description, etc.).

I just received this report from Don DeVries. We suspect that these Shepherds are full-grown, and recently started roaming the Neighborhood. Their actions so far are threatening. If anyone knows where these Shepherds live perhaps they could have a talk with the owner.
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Several incidents have occurred with 1-2 German shepherds in our neighborhood. Last week Rod told me that 2 shepherds were in his yard, and went after a visitor in their driveway, and the visitor had to run, as they were threatening towards him.
This past Monday, our dog went crazy, barking and scratching at the house door, and when Rietta opened the door to find 2 large dark brown/ black shepherds in our garage going after our dog. Rietta yelled at them and Lilly then felt she had reinforcements and chased them out of our garage. Lilly is on a radio collar and cannot leave our yard, and is apparently not safe in our garage.
This morning I saw 1 shepherd leaving Rod’s driveway walking up the street, and blew my horn, and it took off thru Scott’s yard heading towards 136th Ave, where I suspect it lives.

I just received a report that car windows had been smashed in Heather Hills (11817 132^nd Ave. Ct. E. and 13117 116^th St. Ct. E.).  The vandalism took place on the night of 22-23 July.  One of the people reporting the vandalism said that she had noticed at least one other vehicle in the neighborhood with a tarp over the window.