Life on the Road

I mentioned that we’re visiting family in Memphis… Did I mention that Memphis has the second highest crime rate in the nation? (Check out This Article and This Chart)

So we are parked on the street next to my, ummm, Aunt-in-Law’s place, and we had our generator stolen out of the back of the RV overnight! 

Yeah, the generator…  That really nice, quiet, EXPENSIVE Honda we keep talking about.  That one.

I have not thusfar been impressed by the service I’ve received from my insurance company, but I’ll wait until everything is resolved before I call them on the cyber-carpet.

Dealing with the Memphis Police has been a mixed bag.

Aunt Erin placed the original call, then handed the phone off to Wolf.  He was greeting with a hostile, “Are you afraid to talk to the police?”  Yikes!

After that initial report, though, we’ve been in contact with a Sergeant who has been really nice.  We got him the serial number for the generator (many, MANY thanks to Robinson’s Western Auto in Starkville, Mississippi, who faxed the info to me, as my receipts are in storage in Arizona!), and he assured us that they would actually be looking for it…

I was shocked to hear that they have THREE officers who are assigned full-time to Pawn Shop detail.  They take the list of stolen property serial numbers, and go around looking for it.  Three officers?  How many Pawn Shops are there in Memphis?  And how much stolen property?  As Nick would say, Double Yikes!

My first thought was that I wished we’d heard them when they were rustling around back there…  But after another look at the fact that violent crimes are even a far worse problem than property crimes, I’m glad we didn’t.  $1200 is a small price to pay for all of us to still be alive and well…

I’m not sure how much longer we’ll stay in Memphis, though.