Flamey arson fun.
Okay, Universe, when I said I wanted adventure I did not mean QUITE THAT LITERALLY.
For starters, it's mad windy over here; my car was just ping-ponging all over the freeway. But secondly, when we got home we discovered that someone had tried to SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE.
Our actual house.
Ablaze.
I shit you not.
Our house is a back-to-back house, which means that instead of having a back-garden, there's a second house with their back wall fixed to our back wall. Or, to phrase it another way, someone took one big house and cut it in half. Anyway, to get to the rear house from our road there's a narrow alleyway that goes down one side of our house and connects to them. And on the side of our house there's an old door that leads into this alley-way, that has since been closed off. The door is still there, but it's got about eighteen different locks on it, and about nine layers of paint sealing around the edges.
So, to sum up. Back-to-back house. Alleyway. Defunct door.
Lately, our neighbours and/or their friends have taken to hanging around in that alley, smoking weed, banging on the door, and talking really, really loudly. I can't hear them from my room, which is upstairs and on the other side of the house, but muphinmadness's bedroom is right next to that alley/door, so she can hear every. single. sound.
Not to mention all the weed-smoke seeping through the cracks and getting everywhere.
This has only been a problem really recently, so we've talked to the police and the landlord about the disturbances, and stuff is getting slowly done. (The landlord was going to brick up the door, the police advised us to get in touch with the council, who deal with noise-related issues.)
But when we got back this morning the house stank of plastic, acrid-smelling smoke, and the outside of that defunct door was charred from top to bottom.
Oh yes. They'd attempted to LIGHT THE DOOR ON FIRE.
Now, I have no idea if this was just people being stoned and stupid, or if this was an actual attempt to do something criminal, but either way the DOOR WAS ON FIRE. And there is carpet right next to that door: if one spark had flickered through a crack, the whole house could have gone up. And okay, we weren't in the house, but I have a basic moral objection to people BURNING MY STUFF.
So we called the landlord and the police again. The landlord is going to brick that door up on Sunday, and also find out who our neighbours are and who their landlord is so that he can complain A WHOLE LOT until landlord B reigns his idiots in. The police are sending someone around tonight between 1800 - 2000 to check out the damage and advise us what to do. Personally I'm hoping it's something along the lines of "We are arresting persons A, B, and C for arson and/or potential manslaughter, when would you like to challenge them in court?"
But that's just me.
So anyway, Universe, I AM CONTENT WITH THAT AMOUNT OF ADVENTURE TODAY, THANK YOU.
For starters, it's mad windy over here; my car was just ping-ponging all over the freeway. But secondly, when we got home we discovered that someone had tried to SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE.
Our actual house.
Ablaze.
I shit you not.
Our house is a back-to-back house, which means that instead of having a back-garden, there's a second house with their back wall fixed to our back wall. Or, to phrase it another way, someone took one big house and cut it in half. Anyway, to get to the rear house from our road there's a narrow alleyway that goes down one side of our house and connects to them. And on the side of our house there's an old door that leads into this alley-way, that has since been closed off. The door is still there, but it's got about eighteen different locks on it, and about nine layers of paint sealing around the edges.
So, to sum up. Back-to-back house. Alleyway. Defunct door.
Lately, our neighbours and/or their friends have taken to hanging around in that alley, smoking weed, banging on the door, and talking really, really loudly. I can't hear them from my room, which is upstairs and on the other side of the house, but muphinmadness's bedroom is right next to that alley/door, so she can hear every. single. sound.
Not to mention all the weed-smoke seeping through the cracks and getting everywhere.
This has only been a problem really recently, so we've talked to the police and the landlord about the disturbances, and stuff is getting slowly done. (The landlord was going to brick up the door, the police advised us to get in touch with the council, who deal with noise-related issues.)
But when we got back this morning the house stank of plastic, acrid-smelling smoke, and the outside of that defunct door was charred from top to bottom.
Oh yes. They'd attempted to LIGHT THE DOOR ON FIRE.
Now, I have no idea if this was just people being stoned and stupid, or if this was an actual attempt to do something criminal, but either way the DOOR WAS ON FIRE. And there is carpet right next to that door: if one spark had flickered through a crack, the whole house could have gone up. And okay, we weren't in the house, but I have a basic moral objection to people BURNING MY STUFF.
So we called the landlord and the police again. The landlord is going to brick that door up on Sunday, and also find out who our neighbours are and who their landlord is so that he can complain A WHOLE LOT until landlord B reigns his idiots in. The police are sending someone around tonight between 1800 - 2000 to check out the damage and advise us what to do. Personally I'm hoping it's something along the lines of "We are arresting persons A, B, and C for arson and/or potential manslaughter, when would you like to challenge them in court?"
But that's just me.
So anyway, Universe, I AM CONTENT WITH THAT AMOUNT OF ADVENTURE TODAY, THANK YOU.