Touching, on the case

Yesterday when I was leaving work it was raining lightly.  As I was pulling out of the lot I passed a guy riding his bike.  A quick glance revealed he was not well off, he looked haggard, dirty and generally beat down by life.  Behind his bike he was towing a child stroller however it did not contain a child.  A dog, a brown boxer, was the passenger.

Despite being towed along in the rain by an owner that looked like he would be hard pressed to afford dog food, the dog looked perfectly content, excited to get to wherever they were going, even if he had no clue where that was.

The visual touched me as I imagined that despite whatever has gone down in that guys life to bring him to that point, he still at least has the unconditional love of an animal to keep him going, even when it’s bleak and raining.

So I got a surprise call from my CC company today regarding the fraud that was committed on my card a month or so ago.  I thought the issue was dead.

The woman told me she had some additional information about the transaction that utilized my card to purchase items from Underarmour.com.  The purchase, of just less than $600 was 3 pairs of football spikes and 2 pairs of running shoes.  The ship to name sounded fake, Yusmailiana Galcez, and the address the items were shipped to was over in Homestead, just south of Miami.

However the woman then gave me the telephone number used for the transaction, it was a local 239 area code, hmmm.  So the first thing I did was call the number and ask for Yusmailiana, no one there by that name, “Ok, thank you” and I hang up.

So now I look up the phone number and find it is an address no more than 5 miles from my house, under a totally different name, the plot thickens.  So I forwarded this information to the owner of Zookies whom I spoke to before as I originally suspected one of their staff could have been involved in the fraud.

I am debating if I want to further my prosecution efforts and walk over to the sheriff’s office to file an official report.  It will probably involve more hassle than it’s worth since the charges are already wiped clean and I have a new card.  However there is that little revengeful/do the right thing,  part of me that wants to see the asshole that did this get nailed to the wall.

If the number would have been a Homestead area code I would just let it slide due to distance but the fact that the potential suspect is right in my home area makes me feel like I need to make the effort.