Being a good neighbor...

[prometheus578]

Dear Neighbor,
Thank you for sharing your drunken Fourth of July revelry with me yesterday.
I enjoyed staying awake till 2:00am listening to your noise and questionable tastes in music. My dogs also enjoyed your merriment... each shriek, whistle and explosion had them quivering with excitement, hiding under my desk.
At least you were polite enough to not set my backyard on fire like you did last year.
Now, be a good neighbor, grab a broom, and clean up the mess you left in the street. And send that hoodlum kid of yours over here to get the bottle rockets off of my driveway and lawn.

Hugs and Kisses,
PROMETHEUS

[Bud Manley]

LOL

Mine wasn't too bad. They get kinda rowdy around may 5th though. Nothing like Salsa music so loud it rattles my windows from 1/2 mile away at 4am.

That must have been one hell of a party. Wish they would have invited me.

[joshua]

My neighbors were a little anxious. They partied last weekend and no joke shot out their own windows. Our houses are no more than 8 feet apart. And last week the house across the street got raided. Several hundred pounds of pot. Guess it's time to move.

[Kurt]

That's Arizona for you. I don't know how close you are to the city, but it seems to me that people in the desert are a little loopy.

I had a friend that lived in Pheonix for a little while. He had bums on his doorstep every morning and heard two people get shot inside his apt complex.

[mastan]

Last night, here in Cleveland, a Cleveland fireman handled this problem a little differently. At 11:30 he went over to his neighbors house for the second time that night and shot 5 people killing 3. It was the end of a bitter 4 year feud between neighbors. The fireman has a wife and 2 young daughters.
What a world.
Mark Stanton

[prometheus578]

"I've had all I can stands, and I can't stands no more."(Popeye)

I feel sorry for the family... of the fireman.

(Did you really think I'd show concern for his neighbors?)
My house is where I go to get away from people. Woe unto those who make my walls hum and windows vibrate.

[mro]

shot out their own windows

Would first see what I could do to remove them from the neighborhood...sound like renters


mro

[trbig]

Kinda reminds me of the guy recently that shot a 15 year old kid with a shotgun that had been antogonizing him for years. The guy was obsessive about his lawn, and the kid would go out of his way to walk on it and mess with him. It seems stupid on the outside looking in, but when people go out of their way to screw with you... "He needed killin'" SHOULD be a legit XScuse!

So, Pro... when you go away for years to the pen... can I have your bike? Cause you know when they find the neighbors' bodies, they'll find all the others too!

Tod

[joshua]

Originally posted by mro

Would first see what I could do to remove them from the neighborhood...sound like renters


mro

They moved out a few days ago. And yes, they were all renters. The land lords don't even live in the city anymore.

[Jerry]

My neighborhood wan't to bad. However, a lady I work with had the hill behind her house go up in flames. Fire dept. got it out before it did much property damage, but it did get to within a couple feet of a Class A parked on her neighbor's lot.

Kids who did it were shooting bottle rockets. Soon as they saw what was happening they got in the house, shut off all the lights, locked the doors. When the police came no one would come to the door. Can't break and enter, I guess. Seems like a shame....

My co-worker was the one who called 911. The firemen got there within a few minutes, the location being in town and only about 5 blocks away from the station. This was in Rifle, Colorado.

[mastan]

My condolences go out to the family of the fireman as well. Who knows what pushed him to this. He seems like a good enough guy. However, nothing can excuse his actions. Whatever happened to warning shots? His main target, the 24 year old who was antagonizing him for so long was shot in the back. Sorry, but the fireman should fry.
Mark Stanton

[prometheus578]

"Walk a mile in his fireman's boots..."

the 24 year old who was antagonizing him for so long was shot in the back

Yeah, a real tough guy... tried to run away instead of facing what he had coming. Should have been a man... and faced the monster that he had created in the first place.
Normal people just don't go off like that without a seemingly good reason.
Sure, not everyone is wired correctly in the first place, but usually there is an outside catalyst involved... something on a personal level.

Whatever happened to warning shots?

Police do not fire warning shots. Soldiers are told not to fire warning shots. And as a home owner, if I shot an intruder and during the investigation I admitted to first firing warning shots, I'd be in jail. Reason: If you fire warning shots, then obviously, you didn't feel sufficiently threatened by the intruder... and could have done something different than killing him.
I can imagine that the fireman had fired many "verbal" warning shots over the years. Probably several "legal" warning shots, as well.
At what point can a man take matters into his own hands?

Fourth of July was just the latest in a long string of abuse.

Not to pick a fight with anyone, but let me ask you: Just how valuable is your sleep?
Would you enjoy being awakened every morning at 6:00am by your neighbor's thumpin' stereo as he warms up his car for ten minutes? It's 1:30am now, summer, and you have to close your bedroom windows because of his barking dog, which usually barks till around 3:00am.*
Yes, yes... you've called the police. Yes, yes, you've talked to the idiot innumerable times...
What is your recourse?
Place yourself in the long-suffering fireman's position for a moment (sorry, you can't afford to move, and some cities require that police and fire dept. personnel must live within city limits)
Just how much would you put up with?
At what point... would you buy several sealable 55 gallon drums, many buckets of industrial strength drain cleaner, and just make the problem dissolve away? (shooting always draws attention to yourself)



* (My neighbors no longer have dogs. They've had three over the years:One poisoned, two just disappeared. Honestly, folks, I didn't have anything to do with it. I can't blame a dog for barking that's been tied to a tree it's whole life.)

[oldbiker648]

Pro,
I'm with you on the dog situation. Why own one if you just leave it tied up to a junk car up on blocks? Do the owners not hear the dog barking at 2AM (or is their music turned up so high they can't hear anything?)?
The world would be a better place if we just treated each other with more consideation. It might cut down on the need for neighbohood vigilante justice as well. When will your neighbor figure out that you will outlast any of his dogs?
Bark, bark, BANG...