peeples
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I was driving around NE and N rural Iowa all morning today seeing clients and 3 times I saw white panel vans... not a big deal... but all 3 had removable white magnetic signs on the passenger doors of the vans.. very easy to take on and off... Makes you go "HMMM"
Which led to another thought
Last summer Cedar Falls was given a grant for something or other and it was used to beautify the town, by burying all the cable wires and also cable and internet boxes were updated and made to be installed in the home instead of outside of it. We had a HUGE influx of traveling contractors and installers... i mean at least 100 if not more..the to2wn was blanketed with them for months...They ALL drove white vans with the removable magnets on the doors. They were white and blue and said "CFU Contractor" on them. A few had buckets lifts on them or ladders.. most did not though. (please no one take offense to my next statements). A lot of the workers were scary. I know as temp. contractors they wouldn't be renting homes or anything.. but they stayed in the seediest motels we have around here (the ones all the RSOs have to go live in), and you'd drive by and see them partying on the balconies, sitting on the curbs smoking and swearing while school kids walked by (work started in the summer but didn't end till well into fall)... just a lot of outrageous behaviors. Every home in CF in the city limits had to let one of these guys into their homes to do the box work. We put it off as long as we could until we got the notice that our internet was going to be shut off if we didn't comply lol
The guy that came was freaky... the line wouldn't stretch into the basement where they wanted to mount the box, so they has to put it in one of the kids bedrooms and ru it outside through the wall and then back into the basement... anyway i made sure hubby was here, but the guy was just asking lots of questions about my kids (His white van had Texas plates on it) and we caught him sitting on my sons bunk bed running his hand on the bedspread while on his cell phone. Anyway the work got done and we started seeing less and less of the vans (although occasionally I"ll see one around here still).
I don't know exactly what I'm trying to get at.. just wondering if maybe one of these traveling cable workers could have grabbed the girls and maybe could account for the other scary white van situations around the state.
Like i said i still see the ones with CFU contractor on the side sometimes.. so they have been around the area for a year now.. plenty of time to become used to the area.. and as the work has dried up... more time to explore..
I'm probably waaaaaaaay off base.. but seeing the rural contractor vans today in such concentration brought it to mind
Which led to another thought
Last summer Cedar Falls was given a grant for something or other and it was used to beautify the town, by burying all the cable wires and also cable and internet boxes were updated and made to be installed in the home instead of outside of it. We had a HUGE influx of traveling contractors and installers... i mean at least 100 if not more..the to2wn was blanketed with them for months...They ALL drove white vans with the removable magnets on the doors. They were white and blue and said "CFU Contractor" on them. A few had buckets lifts on them or ladders.. most did not though. (please no one take offense to my next statements). A lot of the workers were scary. I know as temp. contractors they wouldn't be renting homes or anything.. but they stayed in the seediest motels we have around here (the ones all the RSOs have to go live in), and you'd drive by and see them partying on the balconies, sitting on the curbs smoking and swearing while school kids walked by (work started in the summer but didn't end till well into fall)... just a lot of outrageous behaviors. Every home in CF in the city limits had to let one of these guys into their homes to do the box work. We put it off as long as we could until we got the notice that our internet was going to be shut off if we didn't comply lol
The guy that came was freaky... the line wouldn't stretch into the basement where they wanted to mount the box, so they has to put it in one of the kids bedrooms and ru it outside through the wall and then back into the basement... anyway i made sure hubby was here, but the guy was just asking lots of questions about my kids (His white van had Texas plates on it) and we caught him sitting on my sons bunk bed running his hand on the bedspread while on his cell phone. Anyway the work got done and we started seeing less and less of the vans (although occasionally I"ll see one around here still).
I don't know exactly what I'm trying to get at.. just wondering if maybe one of these traveling cable workers could have grabbed the girls and maybe could account for the other scary white van situations around the state.
Like i said i still see the ones with CFU contractor on the side sometimes.. so they have been around the area for a year now.. plenty of time to become used to the area.. and as the work has dried up... more time to explore..
I'm probably waaaaaaaay off base.. but seeing the rural contractor vans today in such concentration brought it to mind