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Having a child in the hospital at this time of the year is difficult enough, but one Houston woman has had another hardship added when thieves targeted her car.
Bridgette Dowdy tells ABC13 she’s staying at the Woodspring Suites in Houston, Texas, because her son is in the hospital recovering from a kidney transplant. Not knowing whether he would be home for Christmas, she had bought presents for all his kids, thinking it would somehow make the separation easier.
Then, one morning, she woke up to find that someone had broken into her car and taken every present she’d kept in the trunk. The thieves were caught on the surveillance cameras outside the hotel, but she knows for a fact that she won’t be having the presents returned – not in time for Christmas, nor ever.
“We don't have very much to even replace the things, but they've been taken... they've been stolen,” she tells the media outlet, fighting back tears.
She says her own mother has stepped in to help her out, buying some toys for the children out of her own money. However, it’s not even half of the presents she’d bought over time and stored where she thought they’d be safe: the trunk of her own car, parked in the driveway outside her hotel room, right under a surveillance camera.
Though sad, this kind of incident is not isolated. People with kids tend to leave presents in the trunk of the car because it’s one of the few places they knew kids won’t go looking for them. Whether thieves know beforehand that the presents are there or they act on a hunch, at the end of the day, the result is the same: the presents are stolen and parents / grandparents are left heartbroken because they can’t replace them in such a short span of time.
Then, one morning, she woke up to find that someone had broken into her car and taken every present she’d kept in the trunk. The thieves were caught on the surveillance cameras outside the hotel, but she knows for a fact that she won’t be having the presents returned – not in time for Christmas, nor ever.
“We don't have very much to even replace the things, but they've been taken... they've been stolen,” she tells the media outlet, fighting back tears.
She says her own mother has stepped in to help her out, buying some toys for the children out of her own money. However, it’s not even half of the presents she’d bought over time and stored where she thought they’d be safe: the trunk of her own car, parked in the driveway outside her hotel room, right under a surveillance camera.
Though sad, this kind of incident is not isolated. People with kids tend to leave presents in the trunk of the car because it’s one of the few places they knew kids won’t go looking for them. Whether thieves know beforehand that the presents are there or they act on a hunch, at the end of the day, the result is the same: the presents are stolen and parents / grandparents are left heartbroken because they can’t replace them in such a short span of time.
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