Yesterday, just before leaving to go visit family, my wife looked out the window to see two men walking down Mellon Street trying to open various car doors, including ours. They continued down Mellon Street and turned onto Bryant where they tried the door at 5700 Bryant. When they couldn't get in, they loitered around the front of the apartment building there laughing and screwing around. We had gotten in the car and followed them while I called the police. I don't know if the police responded, or if they did if there was anything that they could do. This made me angry because earlier in the summer, we had an iPod stolen from our car while we had left the door unlocked for a short time. It was not even in plain sight, rather the perpetrators tore the entire center console apart to find the iPod. I encourage everyone to call the police when they see such behavior; it's the only thing that's going to stop these sorts of activities in our neighborhood. -- David Betts