Just another heads up (bloody fucking hell, why do I have to keep posting these?!) for people living in the Mount Pleasant area.
At 3:25AM this morning my wife woke me, asking me if I remembered to lock the front door because she thought she heard it open. I hopped up, took a quick look around and found nothing. I stopped to take a piss on the way back to bed, and before returning to bed I noticed a black Honda CR-V (~approx 1997) parked in the middle of the road, running, with a bit of a squealing belt. As I stood there wondering why he would be doing this I noticed a guy SPRINTING back to it from my neighbors house.
My neighbor is 90+ years old and his kids only visit every couple of weeks, and definitely not at 3AM.
He gets in the car and takes off down the street, only to stop 2-3 houses later and get out, then sprint up to the front door to try another house. At this point it sinks in, this guy is checking people's front doors looking for an unlocked house.
I called 911 and reported what I knew, a ~6' tall guy who can sprint QUICKLY of medium build was driving a late 90's CR-V or Rav-4 and trying people's front doors. I get a kind of mixed response from the police and they say they will send somebody o ut. At this point I realized my description was pretty useless and my neighborhood gets big quickly (its all a grid) so I thought "they'll never find him from the information I gave... I can do better and help them find him for sure". I went outside to check on my neighbor's house to make sure that this guy didn't gain entry and I noticed the same car parked about 3 blocks down the road, in the middle of the road, lights on engine running, just as I saw him sprint by and get back in and I decided to lay chase.
I hopped in my car and chased him down, once i got within 1-2 blocks I pulled to the side of the road, turned my lights off and put the hand brake on 1 click to turn off the DRL's. I pulled out my handsfree set and called 911 back to update them with his current position. As I followed him we hit a construction area and because he had to turn around I got close enough to give them his plate
JKE-867 (or was it 861... I gave them the right one, and it is one of these two, this time of day makes my memory a bit fuzzy) and I could confirm it was a black CR-V.
I followed him for another minute giving police updated details on this guy but the cops didn't seem to even remotely care, insisted they had already dispatched a car (which now, over 11 minutes later I hadn't seen) and they basically hung up on me. Thanks a lot CPS, thanks a lot.
After realizing that they no longer cared about having enough information to catch this guy I hung up, came home and I am now posting this.
Sorry if it is ramble-y or doesn't make sense. It is 4AM, I was just recently woken up on short sleep and just had to chase down a guy who was trying to break into people's houses because the CPS was fucking useless
*EDIT*
Seeing how pissed off I was, my wife just called the cops to get a case number for this. If anybody in this area (Tuxedo, Mount Pleasant, Capitol Hill or nearby) had their house broken into or entered during the night, please reference this case number: 4836