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Zapped by moonlight robber

BZZZAPPPPP!
That is a sound that I used to really enjoy. It is the sound of bugs getting electrocuted in my back yard.
However, this past Saturday someone violated my property and stole my bug zapper. Why anyone would steal a bug zapper is beyond me. They are not very expensive and the one I had was very old.
I have hung the zapper on my garage for about eight years now and never once has anyone bothered it. That is until last Saturday.
I had hung it back out there about a month ago but had not plugged it in. Then Saturday, with the mosquitoes getting thicker and thicker I decided it was time to get rid of some of them.

Unfortunately the bug that my zapper attracted was much larger and smarter than a mosquito and unplugged my zapper and made off with it.
I will miss the zapper, but what I will miss the most is feeling safe and secure in my little corner of Rainy River. I have good neighbours; people I feel I can trust.
Some of them were surprised that someone would have the nerve to steal from any of us.
But someone did and now everyone is talking about locking everything up. This in a town where many people leave their homes unlocked and keys in their cars.
I guess I feel like I kind of got zapped.
–Until then,
Ken