It was getting to be more and more difficult to handle the things that Bobby pulled.  Terry decided to give up the police department at about this time.  It was just to hard to deal with that type of work and then have to come home and deal with it.  He went to work with a company just a couple blocks from the apartment, working as a delivery driver, for restaurant equipment.  Since we were now down to one vehicle.  Terry decided that he would get a bike and ride it to and from work.  So we found one for sale and we got it for him.

One day that Terry had come down with the flue and stayed home from work.  Bobby constantly nagged him to let him ride it around the complex.  When Terry is sick, all he wants is to be left alone to sleep.  So finally Terry said yes that he could ride it only in the complex parking area, and NO where else.  Bobby said he would and took off out the door with the bike. About an hour later, the phone rings and it is a Pawn Shop.  They are wanting to know that this boy was up here trying to sell the bike.  Terry hit the roof.  Told the man, that no he didn't have permission to sell the bike and he was to keep the bike until Terry could come and pick it up.  And to send the boy home on foot.

When Bobby got home. Terry asked him what was he doing trying to sell Terry's bike. Bobby claimed that he just wanted to find out what it would sell for. That he hadn't planned on selling it.  Terry told him not to ever ask again to ride the bike, cause it was again not an option for Bobby.

Shortly there after, Terry got laid off from the driving job he had.  The company was closing.  So he found a towing company that needed drivers.  One month at a time each one of the three towing companies would rotate the police calls. About a week after Terry started with them it was that company's turn at the police calls.  This means that once he gets the phone call he has 18 minutes to be on the scene.
One morning abut 3 a.m.  Terry gets one of these calls. So he gets dressed and heads out the door.  Only to realize halfway to the truck that he didn't have his keys.  So back to the apartment and he bangs on the door for me to let him in.  We searched the whole apartment and couldn't find my car keys or terry's wrecker keys.  Terry went into Bobby's room and woke him up asking him where the keys were, now the towing company is calling back wanting to know where Terry is.  Terry got on the phone and told them that he couldn't find his keys. So they sent another driver to the call.  Terry lost out on the 75.00 fee for one of these types of runs.  He went back to bobby and asked again where were our keys? Bobby told him, I threw them away.  I head to the kitchen and dump the garbage can on the floor looking for the keys, I went back into the bedroom and I told him they were not in the trash.  Bobby sat up and said that was because they were in the dumpster.

Well Terry couldn't take anymore, made Bobby get up and dressed and put his shoes on and they headed outside. I asked Terry what they were doing. He said going to look for keys.

I got dressed enough to go outside and went around the building to the dumpster in time to see Bobby disappear into the dumpster.  Terry handed him a flashlight and told im to start digging.  My keys were the first to show up. And about five minutes later there were Terry's.  When Terry got both sets of keys and made sure that all the keys were there.  He turned around and walked back in the apartment.  Bobby yelling that he needed help getting out of the dumpster.  Terry hollered back... You got in there, you can get out. And a couple minutes later he did. More pissed off and smelled awful.

We had several more complaints from the school, no homework, fighting, picking on other kids.  And more from the management of the apartments. I spoke with Tim about these problems and told him that we needed to figure out what to do.

Tim and his new wife decided that they would take Bobby full time.  His wife was an at home mom, so they thought that if Bobby had a little more supervision that he might do better.  So he went to live with Tim and his wife, and her three kids.