Brave grandmother (70) from Hengelo captures thief himself from her mailbox

Grandchildren laughed their heads off. "Grandma catching a crook," she burst out laughing. Hiske Loomans can also see from the self-humor. It's a nice story: how the former teacher and amateur detective her stolen property detects a suspicious healer.

design Mailbox
The design mailbox Hiske and her husband Albert is Saturday night November 9, 2013 removed the door of their home in the upscale Grundelweg. In large numbers, who designed the artist herself and left print, number 41 was stuck on the bus. "In an old font, a little Bauhaus style to match our house from 1932."

declaration
They do return. Their small son (3,5 years) is deeply impressed by the brutal mailbox prey to their front door. Hiske mails all the neighbors about the "disappearance". Prompt groepsapp is set to enter the street to another "suspicious movements" by. She hears nothing and buys another mailbox.

attentive neighbor
An attentive neighbor her touch. His mailbox is broken, he is looking for another gazing at Marktplaats.nl a copy that is very similar to Loomans. On Marketplace Hiske see that he is right: it seems that offered their possession. She makes shots of the site and tumbles a snapshot on their bus for the theft.

Itself in action
She calls the police for advice. "How should I handle this further," she asks. "I had to establish myself that it was our mailbox, I received the answer," says Hiske. Is not that the job of the police? That idea dismisses them blows it away. "I found it exciting! "How much risk I run?" I thought. What can happen to me? My husband knew where I was, I had my cell phone with me. "

appointment
She calls the service provider, make an appointment and preparing well for it. She chooses a nondescript jeans and ditto shirt to prevent him from getting suspicious. In his unlit storeroom help tactics and acting talent. "He also offered a lamp, I had seen. I looked at first, which I disapproved off. I said I had seen a mailbox and may be interested. "

If they face gets, she'm sure it's their copy. "On the spot where the great figures had been 41. You could still see. "

Lie
The amateur detective adheres dumb and remain in her role. The provider says that the mailbox of his grandparents was. "He said that was in the ground with a board, which otherwise would be stolen. I had to be careful that I do not laughed. "She photographs the mailbox and asks for reflection.

Meanwhile, she gets these recent snapshots and a picture of the theft to the police. "I was received very nicely." The professionals rounded out the research. Runners get her own back to the Grundelweg.

"From hands off other people's stuff '
Her grandson, now six, crows fun: his resolute grandmother to catch crooks. And she? Hiske laughs. "Beautiful is not it? For me this is of the message that you should stay away from other people's stuff. "

By Editorial AD Photo: Christian van der Meij