Dear Editor,
As a citizen of Fort Thomas, I have some observations to expose. Our valley is beautiful with some wonderful people living and working here. For the most part, people try to be honest and help their neighbors. I truly love this county.
Occasionally, I have reason to believe that not all the people who say they are monetarily blessed are honest people. Every so often, I watch as crimes happen on holiday weekend evenings because these would-be thieves know our police stations are closed Thursday to Monday, and the sheriff’s office has nobody to answer the regular office phone lines that aren’t emergency services. Our town is basically closed for the weekend.
The railroad that runs through our valley also has a regular weekly schedule. Every so often, for safety’s sake, the workers come along and change every railroad tie and replace them with new ones. The old ties get neatly stacked along the rail to be picked up at the project end. These ties are already sold to a company that refurbishes and resells the good quality ties and chips the mangled and rotten ones for other uses. This pile of old ties is owned by someone even though they are sitting by the rails.
Through the years, I’ve watched residents of Fort Thomas show up by the piles with forklifts on tractors, pickup trucks, and horse trailers to get their share of the best ties first. It’s like a drug to these people. I went to the railroad office and asked if I could have a few. I was told, “Absolutely not. Those are already sold to the salvage company. It would be stealing”. I can accept that so therefore I go to H&S and pay money and get a receipt when I need railroad ties.
This year, the ties were again stacked along the lines just as the Christmas season began. The season of giving and charity and joy and love, right? These Fort Thomas residents couldn’t wait to get down to the pile of used ties and start raping through it to find the best ones and get them for themselves. The pile in Fort Thomas was as tall and long as a semi-trailer and stacked remarkably square and straight. The richest residents of Fort Thomas are down there stealing, and they know they are, or they would be there in broad daylight on a weekday. This is just an observation for the community, but maybe the people you trust the most are the biggest criminals in the Gila Valley. If you look at the pile of ties across from Meg’s place today, it looks like a dump.
It’s called stealing, and these people are like drug addicts just waiting to gather up the pile for themselves. It seems pretty pathetic that every so often, people are allowed to steal, lie, cheat, covet, and never be held accountable for terrible behavior. I love my community but I sure do get embarrassed by the bad behavior out here. Why can’t people just be honest and true? Some of the residents out here are thieves.
Thank you,
Jamie Guest – Fort Thomas
