Mr. Ballin

She was hoping to hear sheets rustling or dresser drawers opening, but she didn't hear those sounds.

Instead, she heard a different sound.

It was like this weird clanking sound, like metal pounding against metal.

And so because this noise was so unusual, she just opened up the door and she found her son, Bradley, along with his friend, 18-year-old Jason Horbachevsky, squatting in the middle of the room, trying to pry open this big metal box with a crowbar and a hammer.

Bonnie stepped fully inside the room to get a better look, and she saw there was a phone receiver dangling off the side of this metal box.

It was clearly a payphone that Bradley and Jason had clearly stolen from somewhere out on the street, and now they were trying to, you know, steal the quarters out from inside of it.

Bonnie was so shocked that all she could think to do was just say, "'What are you doing?'

And Bradley, he looked at his mom and just seemed totally unphased that she was in there.

And he just said, what?

We're just trying to get the change out of this payphone.

And then before she could react to that, Jason, so her son's friend, he looked over his shoulder at her also very nonchalantly and just began laughing in a way that made Bonnie wonder if he was high on something.

At this point, Bonnie just stepped back into the hallway and just tried to think through what she should even do here.

I mean, this is so obvious that they're committing a crime in her house right now.

Like, what in the world?

But at the same time, you know, she'd been having problems with her son Bradley for a long time now.

You know, this was definitely not the first time she had caught her son, you know, doing something bad.

Her son had been known to throw parties in their house that he definitely was not supposed to.

He would pick fights with basically everybody in the house, all the family members.

And on top of that, she also knew that periodically he would hang out with known gang members.

Now, for a while, Bonnie had tried to be understanding and supportive because she remembered how hard it was to be a teenager herself.