Wipe the top of your desk and every side you can reach with a bleach wipe. Ants follow scent trails, so doing that should take you off their “route”.
Finally, a news channel is working on it (my boyfriends ceiling leak for almost 3 weeks). This isnt the first apt with this problem, theyre covering a similar situation in a different city. I feel better knowing theres actually an advocate.
I was up early one day last week (5:00AM) and I saw some activity through the front window of my place out on the street. There had been some catalytic converter thefts reported in my town recently, so I went outside to see what was going on.
Evidently a spindly little man in a Prius quietly had rolled up on the street and had stopped behind my son’s car… and he had gotten out and was squatting behind my son’s car. He had his phone in his hand… and he was taking pictures of the back of my son’s car and of his license plate. When I yelled out, “Hey, what are you doing?” he became startled and quickly scrabbled back into his car and zoomed off (silently) in his Prius.
I didn’t have my phone with me so I didn’t get a picture of him or his car or his car’s plate as it drove off. Because I had none of those things, I didn’t call the police. ( What was I going to say? A spindly little man scared me with his big camera phone?)
I checked and my son’s car was not damaged; all he did was take pictures of the rear license plate. I guess that’s legal, even though he was acting very suspiciously and creepy as all hell. My question is why would he want a close-up picture of my son’s license plate?
Why would he be taking it at 5AM when the car hadn’t even been driven in a few days? It was legally parked, all the payments are up to date, we aren’t changing insurance companies, the car doesn’t have any tickets or accidents… so what what am I missing here?
What was incentive to get up at the crack of dawn and film my son’s license plate? What was his profit motive? What was he after…?
I can’t tell if your son’s car was in the driveway or parked at the curb. If it was parked at the curb, many cities have municipal codes that require cars parked on the street to be moved after 72 hours. In some neighborhoods, street parking is fought over and I could see someone using multiple pictures of a parked car to prod the police into coming out to ticket.
No clue if this would apply to your area. And it usually doesn’t happen after just a few days. But that’s the only guess I’ve got.
Yeah, except that my town allows street parking with no limit. And I’ve never ever seen that Prius on my street… or that spindly little man in my neighborhood.
I was worried that it was a CL scam, where he was posting pics of a car ‘for sale’ just so he can rob anyone who shows up with the cash to buy it. Well, whatever the reason, this guy was an old pro at it: That Prius was Perfectly Silent as it zoomed off.
Silent but deadly?clip from Stuber
Unlikely to be the explanation in this particular case, but…
My son has an odd fascination with spotting license plates from obscure States. Sometimes if I spot, say, an Alaska or West Virginia plate, I will take a shot of it for him. I’m happy that so far nobody has asked me to explain myself…
Oh Joy
I got an automated text claiming to be from my pharmacy. It turned to out to actually be from my pharmacy. My Medicare D says I have other insurance (I don’t) and doesn’t want to cover my Vraylar. I asked how much it would be for a month’s supply out of pocket, just in case the worst happens. It’s over $1600.
Thank you!
It’s much more comforting than thinking that ‘spindly-man’ is trying to find a buyer before trying a car theft. Or that some creepy neighbor is trying to stalk my kid. My mind is much at ease.
Alaska plates are rarely seen in the “Lower 48”. I once saw a Hawaii plate (probably something to do with a military service transfer…)
Have you seen the Northwest Territories plate from Canada?
They’re not uncommon in Washington State, but maybe that’s one of the “Upper 2”? 
I stand corrected.
When I bought my second car in Rhode Island it had Alaska plates. It belonged to a member of the Coast Guard, and had likely never even been to Alaska. So yeah, what you said.
Why can’t they make a home fax/printer device that can realize that when the user enters a ten digit number and hits “copy”, it is more likely to be a mistake than an actual attempt to produce some number of copies larger than a billion???
Lately it seems like if someone asks you for a favor, and you are unable to help them, they get angry or argue instead of thanking you for considering their request. At work someone pulled into my parking lot when their car died. I was heading home. I asked if they needed to use the phone in the building to call a tow, but she said it was her bf’s car and he was stopping after work to fix it.
I took a pic of the plate and told her I wouldn’t have the car towed (my lot has signage about towing). She asked for a ride home. I explained that my backseat was removed and my dogs had the back. My front seat held my bird’s travel cage. My Jeep had room for one human, me, the driver.
Instead of accepting that she went off on a rant about how people should carpool, that animals shouldn’t be more important than people, etc. I have no idea what she ended up doing, at that point I didn’t care.
We have an old license plate from Canada Northwest Territory that is shaped like a polar bear.
If you don’t mind explaining, why did you take a picture of the plate?
Your experience sounds like many of the postings on the site notalwaysright.com.
I assume to give to security to tell them to not tow that particular car.
Yeah, I don’t have “security” but the guy who lives next door to my business will sometimes call me if there’s a car sitting in the lot. Taking a pic is easier than finding pen/paper and writing it down.
OK - Thanks.