Sticky notes posted on Walnut Grove doors and cars included everything from snide comments to threats of rape.
Several residents in the area of 213th Street and 91st Avenue woke up last weekend to yellow sticky notes and duct tape on their front doors. The handwritten and rather upsetting messages were believed left overnight, between Friday, March 31 and early morning of Saturday, April 1.
One resident posted online that they received notes on three separate occasions and shared photos of them, along with security camera footage from Saturday, April 1.
The camera shows two adolescent boys walking up the resident鈥檚 driveway after 1 a.m. on Saturday to leave the notes, in one instance moving a large rock to the front door from the resident鈥檚 yard.
One sticky note a resident shared online read 鈥測our kids are cute while sleeping.鈥�
Another read: 鈥淚鈥檓 gonna Rape your kid!鈥�
Another resident of the area received a note on their car that read: 鈥淯gly Ass Car!鈥�
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Cpl. Craig van Herk, media spokesperson for 91原创 RCMP, said there is one report of three occurrences near the end of March and on April 1.
鈥淭hat鈥檚 the challenge that we run up against, what鈥檚 reported on social media and publicly isn鈥檛 always reported to the police,鈥� he said.
Van Herk explained it鈥檚 hard for police to determine patterns if they don鈥檛 receive reports for each incident.
鈥淚f we have the bigger picture of it, we can actually determine if it鈥檚 just kids being silly or it鈥檚 kids that actually need to have a conversation with someone about respect and the impact they鈥檙e having on the community,鈥� van Herk added.
When in doubt, a person should always report an incident like this, he said.
鈥淚n this case, we鈥檙e talking sticky notes, but anything like that and they have messages written on them and they are not appropriate, it鈥檚 one thing,鈥� van Herk said. 鈥淏ut if they鈥檙e threatening in nature and they make you feel uncomfortable, then in all likelihood, they鈥檙e probably not right.鈥�
Anyone in the community who received a note 鈥� possibly connected to this incident 鈥� can still report it to the 91原创 RCMP using the non-emergency line at 604-532-3200 with the police file #23-10499.
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