Oh! Hey! I’ve got it! They’re repo men! When they repossess cars near the end of the day they just drive them home instead of taking them to the impound lot, which is a long way crosstown.
This hypothesis ties in with betenoir’s very nicely.
I disagree. Most people who rate company cars don’t live in trailer parks. (No offense Tuckerfan)
Some cars are stolen for parts only and not car itself.
I suggest you break your leg and while you sit in your wheelchair you watch them through your camera’s telephoto lens. Then Grace Kelly will bring you lobster!
Did I ever mention that Rear Window is one of my favorite movies?
You’ve never been under surveillance before, Tuckerfan?
Bring the nice officers some coffee and donuts. They love that.
Tucker-
questions:
-About how long have they been there?
- If theres a diff car almost every day, why
do you never rarely see people coming in and out?
Do they come in and out overnight, or while youre
gone during the day? - How do they dress/work clothes? Are they ever
working on any of these cars? Could be a home-grown
mechanic or something?
hey!!! I live on the other side of that trailer!!! j/k…anyway, they could be trying to be conspicuous about something that is not conspicuous… you should just go next door and ask them about it.
“Are they ever working on any of these cars? Could be a home-grown mechanic or something?”
That was my first thought. There’s ALWAYS at least one car in the alley across from my house, with a bunch of guys standing around looking expectantly at the cars, and it’s different cars and different guys every time, except for the people who live in the house. In short, the jokers across the alley are running a 24-hour car repair shop in a single family residential neighborhood!
Maybe a meth lab?
IMHO, I’d trump up some excuse to call the police…anonymously. 
Actually, less expensive cars from four or five years ago are prime targets. Those cars are worth quite a bit if they’re disassembled and sold as parts.
Congrats! You’ve been selected as the new chair of the Welcome Wagon Committee.
Let’s see… Other than the rotating cars, nothing else going on, except a “vibe”. No loud noises, no fights, no trashy mess, the folks even cut the grass. Yup, I’d be calling the fuzz. Not.
Some things just get to remain a mystery.
It’s a crackhouse. The people that live there are busy all day cooking up batches and batches of crack. The different cars you see belong to the distributors. The reason that they keep using different cars is so that, when neighbors get suspicious, no one can give an absolute description of a vehicle. Because not all of the neighbors have seen all of the cars, the cops are likely to get the description of ONE (maybe two) car(s) from each neighbor. None of these descriptions are going to match.
Duh.
Well, thanks to an exploding water heater, I got to stay home from work today and did a lot of observing next door (since I had to be outside the damn trailer to work on the water heater!). Saw some “unusual” things.
First of all, saw what I think is the same car for the second time today. Any way it looks like a car that was parked there once before. Then I actually saw the residents (or at least one of them) outside for a bit.
One was a white male, in his late fifties, early sixties, I’d say. He was wearing shorts and a surgical scrub top and he carried a heavy looking old American Tourister suitcase out to the limo.
The other was also a white male who appeared to be in his late forties and he carried out a blue and white cooler to a pick up (and then drove off). I’m not sure if he lives there or not since he appeared to be driving towards another trailer.
The guys could be mechanics, but they’re not working on the cars here. The landlord won’t allow it (and believe me, if you screw with the landlord, you will be evicted! They tossed out people for playing their stereo too loud shortly after I got here.), so I don’t understand why they’d be bringing them by here.
Anyways, I don’t think that they’re car thieves as I said before, because the cars that are showing up aren’t in the top 25 of stolen cars for this state. They’re not even the “lower priced” versions (i.e. a Chevy that shares most of its parts with an Oldsmobile). As for them leaving and doing things when I’m not there, its possible, but I find it hard to believe that their schedule would sync up in direct opposition of mine all the time (including today, when I spent a good portion of it outside).
Even if they do turn out to be doing something illegal, I probably wouldn’t call the cops unless it was something like a kiddie porn ring, or similar. If they’re laundrying money or are running a “hospital” for mobsters and leave me alone, then I ain’t gonna rat 'em out.
Zebra, no offense taken. That’s pretty much what I thought as well. And if breaking my leg would get me Grace Kelly, I’d be all for it, even if I didn’t have weird neighbors to look at! That babe was smokin’!
They’re obviously harvesting kidneys.
I have a bumper sticker that says this…almost. It actually says “Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.” hehe.
I think that the used car lot thing sound pretty likely. I knew a guy who worked at one of those lots, and he didn’t have a car, so he just drove the lots home every night. Usually a different car everytime. Plus, not all used car lots have dealer plates.
Call me paranoid; comes from having once taught in a school that was next door to a meth lab that got busted. NOT fun, let me tell you.
Besides which, I’m ferociously anti-social and proud of it. 
Standing up for your words like real trooper. You’re OK.
Me, I’d just be observant as all hell until I had something concrete.
Maybe they work for a car rental agency like Hertz or Avis. My neighbor does and they always have new cars over there. Can you see if they have rental plates on them or stickers in the window maybe?
My thoughts exactly. Black Market Body Part Distribution Center. Hide your donor card, don’t want them getting the wrong idea about you.
Nope, no rental stickers or anything. The Black Market Body Part Distribution Center does sound pretty plausible, considering what I said in this thread. I noticed the billboard I was ranting about has been taken down. I’m guessing that they’ve decided little Katie or her puppy really does need my tar infested lungs. This isn’t good. Wonder what I can do to make them realize that harvesting my lungs really isn’t worth the effort?
(Although, the meth lab might be plausible, too. There’s been a rash of busts on those places around here. Why can’t these guys make LSD? I’d buy a bunch!)
Perhaps I missed it, but is it the people who live there that bring the new cars or strangers that spend the day there? Maybe they have a little home pawn-shop thing going, he he. “Yeah, I’ll give ya five bucks for that watch… 20 for the camcorder”, and they store their ill-gotten merchandise in the limo (carrying it out in the suitcases as you describe)!! Although I know very little about small-time criminals, I’d imagine that two older guys probly wouldn’t be doing the leg work… they could be the brains or management end of a tiney local crime ring. Any creepy-lookin’ young guys with long hair, bad moustaches and baseball caps stop by (bad Mike!!; stereotype! stereotype!!)?
Mechanics? Look at their hands - even if they can’t work on the cars right there, I’ve never known of a mechanic that could keep his grubbies out of the car’s guts even just to have a look. They should have dirty hands/nails at least sometimes (or perhaps somewhat muscular forearms) if they do much mechanic-work.
Well, I live in a “small rural type town” and they sound like my neighbors. They are two older people and the Woman is a lunatic (seriously, she was locked up for a few years until they closed all of the mental hospitals around here). Her husband never has the same car for more than a week, and he always has five or six for sale in his front yard. He leaves around the time I get up for school at 6:30 and comes home around Midnight. The woman does come out during the day and caused problems. She screams insults at us, and is constantly burning large bags (even in the rain). I don’t know what is in the bags, its not garbage because I see it out by the curb once a week.