Stop it late night crawler

Dear late night crawler, In the last year you have victimized my family at least 6 times. You have victimized my neighbours also, countless times. You troll the quiet streets at night looking for the car you can jimmy open, the one somebody forgot to lock, the one with something cool left in view. You take anything and everything,  most of the time it's not even worth reporting to the police.  It would skyrocket the premiums if we claimed insurance on all the ridiculous things you have taken from us. You have taken an iPhone charger that was from the dollar store, you have taken my chapstick, my mints, the quarter we use for the grocery cart.  We try not to leave anything in the car, because we know eventually you will take it.
 
What I want you to know is that we are people too. People that are facing struggles of our own. It may look like all is wonderful inside our home, but everyone has a back story. My family of 5 is a hair away from bankruptcy.  My husband lost his job in early 2016 and we are barely hanging on. We pinch every penny, every day just trying not to lose our house to foreclosure. Everything we have was bought years ago, when work was plentiful. The vehicle you stole from is 15 years old and badly in need of repairs, but it's all we've got and it still runs most of the time. This spring my husband got a low paying job driving long haul and he bought a used GPS so he could find his way, the screen was cracked, the display didn't really work, but it got him to his destinations, you stole it. He had an ancient FM transmitter to play his 3rd gen iPod (no radio in the hills) while he was driving those long miles, trying to earn us enough to buy groceries,  you stole that too.
 
But last night you really hit the jackpot! You stole the headphones for our 15 yr old minivans DVD player,  you stole headphones from little kids! Headphones that are no good anywhere else, will work in no other electronic device except our minivan. Years ago they cost us hundreds, but they were worth it for those trips to Alberta to see our family. We cannot possibly replace them and yet they are of no use to anyone else. They are completely worthless to you, but to us they were the last little thing we still had left.
 
I imagine you steal to fill a need of your own. Be it a fix, a hit, some food, whatever. No idea what you possibly got for a dollar store phone charger? But you are only stealing from people who are also on the verge. Please, I beg of you, stop!  We can't afford to lose anything more. We are broke and broken, please leave us be.

Tracy Hurst