I think it may have been a year later, I was in our basement and went into Reggie’s room. One thing that I noticed was that he had hooked up some car speakers to his stereo, and I thought that was odd. A couple days later, I noticed that he had additional speakers, and I noticed a couple car stereos, at this time, I had a good idea what was occurring and I asked Reggie how he had acquired them, and he told me that he had gotten them out of cars at our local rink.

Our local rink often had hockey games where there might be a couple hundred cars in the lot, and Reggie (and others?) would go through the lot looking for unlocked cars as they never actually broke windows or locks, and if they found an unlocked car, they would look for cassettes and whatnot, but they were most focused on getting high-quality stereos and speakers. I am pretty sure that most locals who were in his age group to mine had a pretty good idea that he was the culprit but there was no obvious action by the RCMP, but I suspect that they must have been observing the rink during the games and he was probably identified as the primary suspect.

I can recall going to a party on the Souris Line Road in Grade 12, and it was mostly people from my grade, but somehow I think Reggie was at the party briefly, if I recall correctly, and he saw a box of cassettes and took the entire box. I had no knowledge of this, but I had seen Reggie there, and so when my classmate came up to me and asked me where the casettes were, I told him that I did not know, but I had a good hunch.

A few days later, I was confronted by the same classmate at the entrance to the High School. I could not “rat out” my brother, and I ultimately paid the price by being ostracized by that person and many of his friends for a long time. Time heals all wounds, they say, but I imagine that fellow is still unhappy about that theft.