{"id":26106,"date":"2025-12-22T14:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26106"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:22:02","slug":"i-kept-coming-home-to-a-toothpick-in-the-lock-instead-of-calling-the-police-i-took-revenge-on-my-own-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26106","title":{"rendered":"I Kept Coming Home to a Toothpick in The Lock \u2014 Instead Of Calling the Police, I Took Revenge on My Own Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One night after work, I came home to find a toothpick jammed into my door lock. My brother helped fix it, but the same thing happened the next evening. We set up a hidden camera\u2014and what I saw shocked me. It wasn\u2019t a vandal. It was a little girl in a bright yellow raincoat, nervously sticking toothpicks into the lock before running away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day, I waited outside. When she appeared, I gently asked why. She whispered, \u201cMy dad used to fix locks. He got sick and went away. Sometimes I pretend he still has jobs to do.\u201d My heart sank. She wasn\u2019t causing trouble\u2014she was trying to keep her dad\u2019s memory alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night after work, I came home to find a toothpick jammed into my door lock. My brother helped fix it, but the same thing happened the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":520,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26108,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26106\/revisions\/26108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}