Kingston02881’s Weblog

I just read the article below, from the South County Independent, and feel like, since the writer of the article read and quoted from this blog, that maybe some people might look at it.

I don’t know what should happen with Margo Caddick. I am sad that she has problems, and I am sure this is a time of great stress for her family. However, this has been a nightmare for people in this neighborhood. A place where my family has felt very safe has changed. When the police told us that “She (Margo Caddick) had notes about you” and knew when we had been on vacation and what time we usually go to sleep, I got chills. When the locksmith who changed our locks told me that he’s never been so busy, I cried later, thinking about the devastating loss of trust in this ‘village’. When I heard about the jewelry, letters, birdbaths and ladders that were stolen from my neighbors, I walked endlessly around my home, wondering what might be missing that I hadn’t noticed, wondered if she’d gone through my drawers, wondered if she had taken bridge tokens out of our cars, wondered and wondered and wondered if she had my cat.

It will be a year on June 8th since I saw my cat Junior, and in the past few weeks, skinny and shy cats have been creeping around the neighborhood. I don’t know if they are cats that she had hidden away- I don’t know. I don’t know. Even if Junior was to come home right now, he’d be a very different fellow than the friendly, huggly bundle of happy cat he was. Maybe Margo Caddick had nothing to do with Junior’s disappearance- or the disappearance of Oscar, another lovely missing cat, or any of the others.

No one can prove anything about the cats. But no one is denying that this woman was in and out of our houses, gardens and cars, stealing our belongings, and stealing our feelings of safety and security.

From the article:  ”Caddick’s lawyer, Lise Gescheidt, is not happy.

“The neighbors’ behavior is so over the top. It is confrontational and unreasonable,” Gescheidt said in an interview on Tuesday. “

I, for one, disagree. A couple of weeks ago, the police shot and killed a rabid racoon in the neighborhood. I was outside when I heard the shots, and at the same time, I saw a car driving slowly past Margo Caddick’s house. I thought someone was so mad that they were doing a drive-by shooting! Well, of course, it was the raccoon thing, and I laughed later about even thinking that someone would do a drive-by shooting here, in Kingston- in a Volvo! But that, Lise Gescheidt, would have been a “confrontational and unreasonable” and even an “over the top” reaction.

I lock my door all the time now. We got outdoor lights put in. Noises at night alarm me. When I can’t find something, I wonder, did Margo Caddick take it? What am I not noticing?

I wonder about all the houses near me that I assumed were filled with nice people.

Margo Caddick may be very very sick and that’s sad, but she’s spread quite a nasty feeling over a really lovely place, and that’s sadder still.