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What to do?
Well I posted something here a while ago about someone breaking into our house. Well when I walked home today, someone that lives on my street gave me this really dirty wallet asking if it belonged to my dad. He was getting his hedges cut when he found it in the hedges. I took out the first card I saw in it and it was my health card!
I said thank you and immediately went home and told my dad what happened and gave him the wallet and told him to call the police like right NOW.
He just said no and just took out the cards that he canceled, threw them away, and put the wallet on the window sill and walked away.
I was like "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? CALL THE POLICE!" But he kept saying no and was really quiet. It was like he was a totally different person.
I just...don't know what to do. He's supposed to call the police isn't he? I keep telling him to call the police but he keeps shaking his head and saying no. I don't get it. Could someone tell me if they know what he's feeling from his perspective? We should be calling the police! When our house was broken in, the police could not find any clues at all and now we have SOMETHING.
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What's done is done and it already happened. There isn't anything that the police can do. He can file a report, but THAT'S IT. He's already taken the actions he needed to (canceling his cards). I know tons of people who have had these things happen to them. You think the police don't get these cases EVERY day? I'm sorry that this happened to you, yes it's unfortunate, but there are much larger crimes to taken care of (rapes, murders, kidnappings). They aren't going to send out detectives on a manhunt for a crime this minuscule.
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Your dad probably feels violated and as if he didn't protect his family. Rational or not it's how a lot of men feel when their house is broken into. He should call the police but now that your neighbor and you and your dad have all touched the wallet if may have smudged the prints if there were any. finding it in the neighbor's bush probably wouldn't help unless he knew who threw it there or has someone living in his house that could be suspected. My guess is that your dad wants to just move on. The only other option could be that he knows who broke into your home and doesn't want to talk about it. My dad reacted that way when he found out it was my brother who had broken into his house looking for money for drugs. He wouldn't turn him in. He finally told us but it was after we begged him to tell us what was happening and I asked him "did X do it?" and he said yes.
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