Power Theft

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Over a year ago at my home in Texas, a work crew repetitively took power from my outlet between my garage door and my front door while they worked on my neighbor's house. I protested every time as the cord hung and blocked the egress to the home, so I pulled and threw it in their direction every time I came and went. Oddly, I moved after my home for the seven years prior began mysteriously consuming massive amounts of utilities at a similarly cacophonous pace. Well, I now live in California and a work crew is again violating the place, except this time inside my home to retrofit the building's plumbing at the landlord's orders. First they arrived a few days prematurely and excavated extraneous holes in solid exoskeleton like before. I asked them kindly and they confirmed their needs were self contained. Then in my absence the workmen proceeded to pick a locked door and enter a secure area confirmed as off-limits moments before where they not only steal AC power but move my wife's sacred ashes to the floor where they could be knocked over by the door. This is not work at my request and a sad repitition of events invading the sanctity of two new homes in separate states in an 18 month period. I'm beginning to feel like a Spanish bull with nine lives, and not sure how the matadors keep seeking me out nor do I care why. The torture must end. When sport is made of watching another creature struggle, all humanity is lost. To me, it feels like a vacuum of torment, with this as my only outlet to soothe my injuries however coincidential.
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Date submitted:Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:08:24 +0000Coincidence ID:9012