Kind of weirded out-white truck up and down the street

I noticed a truck driving slowly around my neighborhood and eventually made the connection that it was on trash days - he was looking for salvageable trash. Someone could also be looking for a lost animal. Or they could be casing the place.

If I couldn't figure out what he was doing, I would call the police and ask for extra patrols.

There was a car driving around my neighborhood that I knew didn't belong here. I know almost every car in the neighborhood and this one didn't go where the houses are, it just went up and down the central trunk and left. Repeatedly. My neighborhood is 120 houses and has one central street with two clusters and I'm the HOA Vice President so I know almost everyone at least by sight.

So I called the police and asked them to run the plates and description. An officer called me and said the driver had been spotted before in other neighborhoods and it's because he drives around smoking because his wife gets mad if he smokes in front of the house.

He sets off my creep radar every time I see him but that's the explanation at least.

I would have someone check it out. A week or two ago, my husband and I were concerned (a little bit) by a white truck driving down our cul de sac (that only has two houses). That evening an email went out to the neighborhood association that they had knocked on some doors, and burglarized one house, getting caught on camera.

Depends on your police dept, ours always says to call if something is off in your neighborhood. They do come and check it out. Now my MIL lives in the city, they'd probably laugh at her if she did that. But yeah I'd try to get a license # or picture or something and call the police if your creep factor is going off.

Many years ago our friend's husband was being relocated to Philadelphia. His wife stayed here to finish school etc.
Her husband was looking for the new home, so he was slowly cruising neighborhoods looking to see what was going on, upkeep, "tone" of the neighborhood. Next thing he knew, the police pulled him over to find out what he was doing.

We have an older model PU that cruises near trash day looking for things he can salvage.

Our police dept would come and check for you (city of 30,000).

Have it checked out. I know of a family whose daughter was nearly abducted by a guy in a van who had repeatedly driven slowly around their suburban neighborhood. Same van was later found owned by a guy who abducted, raped and strangled two other little girls.

Someone in our neighborhood lost their drone tonight, it crashed in our neighbors backyard and they were trying to find it (walking not driving though).

That or trying to get a baby to go to sleep (been there before..)

Just some ideas.