They Stole Our Power
We had this one neighbor that seemed sort of off. One day, the father knocks on our door and tells my parents they haven’t had power for a long time. He begged us to run an extension cord to one of our outside outlets for the day so his young kids could have cold milk with their cereal in the morning.
My parents agreed to do this for one day. The neighbor kept up his part and disconnected the cable after that day. A month goes by and our electricity bill is basically double what it normally is. My parents head to the backyard and find the cable plugged in. So they yank it out and confront the neighbor.
At first, the neighbor will only open the door a crack. My stepdad realized the reason: he was concealing a weapon. That’s when we began to suspect that there was something really wrong with these people. Several cop cars arrive later. Turns out they were up to some illegal shinanigans. Naleid