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TheSpecialist · 02-26-2012, 10:22 AM

The other day I am working all day at a house in Hingham. I get there around 8:45am and the guy shows me around. I tell him I have a couple of hours of work outside then will be moving into the basement. When you walk into someone's house for the first time you usually get the feel of who lives there, and what they are like. I got the feeling this guy was kind of strange, and like maybe he knocked his wife off and buried her in the woods. So I do my work and hardly see this guy most of the morning. Around 11 he comes out with his 9 year old daughter and the load up his Jeep and he tells me he is off to the dump, help your self to food and drink I will be back.

He comes back like 45 minutes or so later and now I am moving into the house to do work in there. Around 1 I go upstairs to work in the one bedroom that he wanted tv in. As I walk into the room his daughter is on the bed reading a book, she gets up and starts out of the room. I ask her to get her dad because I have some questions, so she heads off and the father comes in and answers my questions. The guy was basically sleeping on and off most of the day. Around 2 I go upstairs again, and ask him to bring a laptop to the basement so we can configure his router, and setup his account. He comes down to the basement, looks like he has been sleeping for a week. We finish up the computer, and show him how to work the equipment, ask if he has any questions he says no. I tell him I am done inside and will be at the side of the garage, he walks me out to the truck through the garage, says goodbye and closes the garage door.

So I pull out of the driveway and down onto the street, and do some work on the computer, then I walk up this steep hill on the side of his garage to get my ladder. I put the ladder on the truck and jump in to warm up. A Hingham cop pulls up , so I roll down the window. He starts asking me questions. did you work at 28 to day, I say yeah. Did you see a little girl in there, I say yeah. He says how old do you think she was , I say about 8-12. He asks if I saw her leave the house I say no, he says she is missing, and the guy who owns the house is calling my company looking for me. He asks me if I will be there for a few I tell him yeah I am reading the paper. He goes up the driveway. I did not realise that two other cruiser had already gone up the driveway from the other direction.

About 3 minutes goes by and the cop pulls down the driveway, and in behind me. He gets out walks up to the truck and says the guy is kind of strange huh? I said yeah he seems a little off. He then says, "The guy wants me to check your truck for his daughter." I said you f'n kidding me right. He says no the guy is serious. I said she is not in the house? He says no the guy looked everywhere and can't find her, so I tell him here is the key knock yourself out. He says I don't want to search your truck, I know she is not in there. Now my cell phone rings, and is the dispatcher, she is asking me if I am alright, and generally dancing around the issue. So I tell her I am talking to a Hingham cop at the house I am working at and ask her to hold on. Next the guy and another cop come out, and the guy is like when was the last time you saw my daughter? I said I saw her twice today, when you went to the dump, and around 1 when I asked her to get you for me. Thats it. He starts scratching his head, and walking around going this is very strange. Next a female cop radios down to the other 2 that she found the girl asleep on her bed. The guy just walks away, no #^&#^&#^&#^&ing apology or anything.

How about staying awake #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& and paying attention to your #^&#^&#^&#^&ing kid. The three cops were beside themselves, they said the guy swore up and down that he had searched every inch of his house and her room and she was not there. They find her asleep on her bed . I was pissed and wanted to kick the sheet out the pos. Talk about friggen embarrasing.

nightfighter · 02-26-2012, 10:36 AM

Bill,
I would recommend getting a copy of the police report, as well as anything that may go into your employee file with your employer. CYA. Statement from your boss and dispatcher. Name of cop(s) you spoke with, etc. Enter your own statement into employee file if you feel it necessary. You want to show absolute closure and any inferences directed to the father, not you. Making sure the cops remember and know you wouldn't hurt either. Lot of strange people out there......

Slipknot · 02-26-2012, 10:41 AM

wow
ya that would freak most people out
the guy is a moron, maybe he's on drugs
I hope nothing more becomes of it for you Bill.

JohnR · 02-26-2012, 11:11 AM

What Ross said. Engage the CYA mechanisms. Write everything down while fresh in your head too.

Granted this is a little Holywoodish but A - the guy sounds really weird and B extremely remote chance of something worse than just bad parenting and real strange like a setup / frame / something making you the victim.

How did the kid seem, normal?

TheSpecialist · 02-26-2012, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by nightfighter

Bill,
I would recommend getting a copy of the police report, as well as anything that may go into your employee file with your employer. CYA. Statement from your boss and dispatcher. Name of cop(s) you spoke with, etc. Enter your own statement into employee file if you feel it necessary. You want to show absolute closure and any inferences directed to the father, not you. Making sure the cops remember and know you wouldn't hurt either. Lot of strange people out there......

The cops never took my info and there were three of them there. They all knew the guy was a nut case, and that I had done nothing wrong. The union hall knows, and I told the first level manager, so I covered my bases. No one will want to work in that house again though.

TheSpecialist · 02-26-2012, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnR

What Ross said. Engage the CYA mechanisms. Write everything down while fresh in your head too.

Granted this is a little Holywoodish but A - the guy sounds really weird and B extremely remote chance of something worse than just bad parenting and real strange like a setup / frame / something making you the victim.

How did the kid seem, normal?

She seemed like a real normal kid, she didn't say much but was mostly upstairs reading a book. Other than that I have no idea. I bet the guy was on some meds or supposed to be. I thought about the frame job.

TheSpecialist · 02-26-2012, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Slipknot

wow
ya that would freak most people out
the guy is a moron, maybe he's on drugs
I hope nothing more becomes of it for you Bill.

I think I will be good at work, other than the fact that I will get constantly ribbed, and people who I don't know personally other than on the phone it will seem strange for awhile interacting with them.

The thing that really pisses me off is the dispatcher was acting like I did it the way she was talking to me, they believe the customer over you. That is bull#^&#^&#^&#^&, the company does a very thorough background check, cause you never know where someone will be working. I have worked in banks where hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were laying right there on a counter, government buildings etc. They should have had my back and came right out and said , the customer called, his daughter is missing and he thinks you have her, or he wants to know if you saw her. When they heard she was found in her room, I could hear the sigh of relief through the phone on their end, but no one asked if I was ok. I was friggen shaking, and my heart was in my throat.

Slingah · 02-26-2012, 11:40 AM

that's a weird situation Bill.......

Saltheart · 02-26-2012, 11:43 AM

Too weird. I would think the cops would follow up and get some child agency involved too. You may want to send a letter to the Chief of Police suggesting the same. That way nobody can say you should have done more. This poor kid could turn up starved or beaten sometime in the future.

Jenn · 02-26-2012, 01:52 PM

Ugh....I dunno why but I get a sick feeling he probably only pays attention to the poor girl when he needs something. UGH why do these things cross my mind? Because people are sick thats why!

Jenn · 02-26-2012, 01:56 PM

um and oh yeah it is very strange that he would be sleeping while some stranger is doing work at his home.....would any of you ever? I dont care how tired I was I could never sleep knowing someone was either inside or out of my home working on something.....creepy and strange for sure.

Backbeach Jake · 02-26-2012, 04:32 PM

Sleeping with someone in his house with a child there as well. Probably overmedicated for cluelessness. Another self-absorbed dweeb unleashing his larva on the world . What is his daughter learning from this? He needs the police to interview him and the child.

Swimmer · 02-27-2012, 01:58 PM

He's medicated all right, but he didn't get any of the stuff he is taking at my pharmacy. I wouldn't go back to the house without another employee with you Bill. You should google his name and do a search in the local newspapers to see if his name pops up. He might of just had the virus going around, but it doesn't pass the smell test.

spence · 02-27-2012, 02:22 PM

Drugs, depression or who knows what kind of mental health issues.

The cops might have known more than they let on. I'd cover your own but doubt you'll ever hear about it again.

-spence

Joe · 03-02-2012, 08:04 AM

When the going gets weird, the weird go pro.

FishermanTim · 03-05-2012, 12:44 PM

Since the police knew about him they probably had prior experiences with him. I'd venture a guess that he may be taking drugs for a possible mental health issue, or is an idiot that is self-medicating himself and truly doesn't care that much about his daughter.
It almost seems like he was "hoping" that the kid was gone.

Maybe you should have charged him for your time and your "pain and suffering" that his accusation caused?

DMenace · 03-05-2012, 01:01 PM

I would still create my own report, get my own statements from the police and get any information pertaining to this in my own file for any future issue. In four years, when this issue pops up with another boss who maybe heard rumors or just a twisted part of a story, it will be too late to get any kind of back up. I would rather do the leg work now and have the information I hope I'll never need, than be stuck looking for answers later with people having questions in their head. If I have a question in my head about someone in regard to my kids, then I feel obligated as a parent to consider them guilty. The option to give that person the benefit of the doubt, and risk my kids life/safety/sanity/future happiness doesn't exist. There is too much at stake to risk it.