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Bun-bun

February 09, 2009, 06:05:24 PM
     O.K., I think my neighborhood has been posessed, or maybe turned into a redneck soap opera style Truman Show.
     I moved onto my block a bit less than five years ago. Since then, I've gotten tight with most of my neighbors, and it seems like one never-ending soap opera.
     Neighbor #1; husband, wife, two boys(6&8). They had a good marriage, then he started trying to convince her that they should swing with other people. Last year, she finally agreed, and started bringing guys home. He kept trying to pick up women, but not much luck.Two weeks ago, he goes out looking for some strange (and drinking), fails, comes home, tries to strangle her, pulls out a shotgun, threatens suicide/homicide, cops come, he winds up in Navy detox. Last night, a heater malfunctions, their house goes up in flames. Her and the kids get out, but the dog is D.O.A..
     Neighbor#2; Older couple, divorced, but still living in the same house. One night in December, I look out my window, and see a Cadillac trying to climb the 50 year old oak tree in my front yard. Walk out to find him slumped over the drivers seat, foot on the gas pedal, engine roaring. I call paramedics, he gets a DUI. I thought he was having a medical problem, didn't smell the alcohol.
     Neighbor#3; Older husband, younger wife, two kids(2&8) 6 months ago, she starts smoking crack. Gets involved in Neighbor#1's games, Neighbor#1 offers his wife to neighbor#2 "to keep things equal". They get in a fight, both go to jail. She gets worse, ends up trading sex for crack to the local dealer. Husband puts his foot down, she goes crazy, attacks him, literally beats the crap out of him. Goes to jail, gets out, lives on the street for a couple weeks, comes back begging to her husband to take her back, ends up in an in-patient rehab 600 miles away.
     Neighbor#4; Retired couple, living on social security, own the house free and clear, been living there since 196x. They take their grandson in to live with them. He starts selling crack. Police raid the house about six months ago, bust him, and evict them, take the house as part of the "zero tolerance" laws. They now live with their son, and have been trying to get to court to fight the seizure for six months now, with no end in sight.


Is this normal?
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NAKID

#1
February 09, 2009, 06:16:15 PM
Wow dude, that's kinda harsh.

Was the Neighbor 1 guy in the Navy or is the wife?
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Bun-bun

#2
February 09, 2009, 06:22:33 PM
They were both Navy, she got out last year to stay home with the kids.

Whaddaya mean, harsh? I'm basically just bemused by the whole thing. I just can't figure out whether this type of thing is normal, and I've had my head firmly stuck up my ass all these years, or whether this neighborhood is a lunatic magnet, or what.
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February 09, 2009, 06:24:41 PM
Quote from: Bun-bun on February 09, 2009, 06:05:24 PM
 
Is this normal?


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#4
February 09, 2009, 06:26:42 PM
Quote from: Bun-bun on February 09, 2009, 06:05:24 PM
Is this normal?

Hell no! Where in the hell do you live?  :o

Quote from: Bun-bun on February 09, 2009, 06:05:24 PM
take the house as part of the "zero tolerance" laws.


That's a complete load of BS!

NAKID

#5
February 09, 2009, 06:32:24 PM
Quote from: Bun-bun on February 09, 2009, 06:22:33 PM
They were both Navy, she got out last year to stay home with the kids.

Whaddaya mean, harsh? I'm basically just bemused by the whole thing. I just can't figure out whether this type of thing is normal, and I've had my head firmly stuck up my ass all these years, or whether this neighborhood is a lunatic magnet, or what.

No, harsh as in it's a rough neighborhood...
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herm

#6
February 09, 2009, 06:48:32 PM
sounds like southern oregon...
pretty normal.

everyone there is either hopped up on meth or religion (or both)
If you drive the nicest car in the neighborhood, work in a cash business, and don't pay taxes, you're either a preacher or a drug dealer...

Oldfisti

#7
February 09, 2009, 06:50:44 PM
Quote from: Bun-bun on February 09, 2009, 06:05:24 PM
     
Is this normal?


Do you live in South Central?

If not, then...












                                                           NO!!
Quote from: Sinister on November 06, 2008, 12:47:21 PM
It's like I keep saying:  Those who would sacrifice a free range session for a giant beer, deserve neither free range time nor a giant beer.
Quote from: KnightofNi on November 10, 2009, 04:45:16 AM
i have had guys reach back and grab my crotch in an attempt to get around me. i'll either blow in their ear or ask them politely to let go of my wang.

mitt

#8
February 09, 2009, 06:59:06 PM
No

mitt

CMDRDAVE

#9
February 09, 2009, 07:15:12 PM
That is why I don't talk to my neighbors.  I just "assume" it doesn't happen on my side of the tracks . . . er . . . highway.  It's usually VB crack condos that I see burning down on the news.  I guess all you can do is sit back and  [popcorn]
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Bick

#10
February 09, 2009, 07:22:23 PM
This is on FOX?

What night and time?
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#11
February 09, 2009, 07:45:46 PM
sounds like a typical day in brooklyn.  [laugh]

this stuff is pretty crazy though, maybe you should write a reality tv show and cash in on the addiction while its still hot.

Oldfisti

#12
February 09, 2009, 07:52:52 PM
Quote from: He Man on February 09, 2009, 07:45:46 PM
sounds like a typical day in brooklyn.  [laugh]

this stuff is pretty crazy though, maybe you should write a reality tv show and cash in on the addiction while its still hot.


Oh, HELL YEAH!  You can't write shit this good!     [laugh]
Quote from: Sinister on November 06, 2008, 12:47:21 PM
It's like I keep saying:  Those who would sacrifice a free range session for a giant beer, deserve neither free range time nor a giant beer.
Quote from: KnightofNi on November 10, 2009, 04:45:16 AM
i have had guys reach back and grab my crotch in an attempt to get around me. i'll either blow in their ear or ask them politely to let go of my wang.

Drunken Monkey

#13
February 09, 2009, 08:15:26 PM
Seriously.

That's not normal. That's not even normal for a bad neighborhood.

On the flip side, it sounds highly entertaining. My neighborhood is pure boredom

Other than my neighbor two houses down getting the air let out of all four of his tires (pissed of ex, I think) it's pretty much families with kids and a few cops.

There's a semi hot CSI chick with a Monster across the street, but she's a lesbian and terribly monogamous.  [coffee]
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bigiain

#14
February 09, 2009, 08:17:10 PM
Quote from: Bun-bun on February 09, 2009, 06:05:24 PMIs this normal?

Who knows? _That's_ why you should _never_ have "gotten tight with" your neighbours...  [cheeky]

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