Originally Posted by
Vintage_Cyclist
In my area, there have been incidents where the various neighborhood lawn care services had people in their employ who would case the homes on their route and come back later with their gangster friends. This was a more organized scheme than a druggie burglar looking for something he could sell for quick cash.
Funny you should mention that. Last Friday I saw a young man walking across our neighbor's yard into ours. My vantage point was 2nd floor of the garage, and by the time I got outside he was gone, having attached (by rubber band) business cards for a landscaping company. I thought it rude that he walked across yards instead of using the walk, but ignored it. After the break-in I had second thoughts. I had tossed the business cards he had left, but my neighbor had kept one; so the detectives have that now.
I thought it strange that:
A landscaper (businessman) would be so inconsiderate as to walk across a potential customer's property. He would park in front to display the sign on his truck and use the walkway.
A landscaper (businessman) would take the time to canvass a neighborhood himself when he could be making $ doing pre-spring cleanup.
A landscaper (businessman) would use an hourly employee on such a mission.
Now another thought was that the landscaper may have engaged a guy at random to spread his cards across a neighborhood. The detectives did seem to be interested, and came to a similar conclusion.