I hate living here...
I am now very familiar with the sound of cars getting hit outside.
It's Friday night/Sat morning, so of course the bars are hopping. And even if these assholes aren't coming from the bar, they drive too fast down this street, cut corners down the alley... Our street is a one-way connecting a major road with a smaller but busy road. We also have an alley running along side the house, so people come out that way, too.
I heard that familiar crunch, went outside, and someone had taken out mom's back taillight, and broke the mirror.
Last weekend on Sunday morning, there was an accident at 9 am. Some kid of about 20 came tearing around the street and crunched my brother's truck, and pushed it into his gf's car. Crunched in the wheel well, screwed the frame, ripped off his *new* bumper, and smashed a bit of Lexi's wheelwell. Thankfully there were many witnesses, dad ran him down in his truck (the kid ran into a dumpster) and kept him there. He was reeeally freakin drunk, and apparently he smashed into a bunch of cars on the other one-way street next to us. We won't know til tomorrow if the kid or parents had insurance or not, he wouldn't give his name and pretended to not speak english.
Then the weekend before that, someone had scraped/dented the whole side of mom's van and knocked off the mirror. Yes, the same one knocked off just now. Dad *JUST* installed the replacement a few days ago.
What I wouldn't give to move, I hate this neighborhood, I hate that I don't feel safe or safe leaving my car outside. We're going to try writing the Alderman, getting all our neighbors to sign a petition to at least get speedbumps down this street and maybe the alley. I don't know what else they can do. I want those gut-busting speedbumps so if you go more than 5 mph down this street it'll fuck your car up.
It's Friday night/Sat morning, so of course the bars are hopping. And even if these assholes aren't coming from the bar, they drive too fast down this street, cut corners down the alley... Our street is a one-way connecting a major road with a smaller but busy road. We also have an alley running along side the house, so people come out that way, too.
I heard that familiar crunch, went outside, and someone had taken out mom's back taillight, and broke the mirror.
Last weekend on Sunday morning, there was an accident at 9 am. Some kid of about 20 came tearing around the street and crunched my brother's truck, and pushed it into his gf's car. Crunched in the wheel well, screwed the frame, ripped off his *new* bumper, and smashed a bit of Lexi's wheelwell. Thankfully there were many witnesses, dad ran him down in his truck (the kid ran into a dumpster) and kept him there. He was reeeally freakin drunk, and apparently he smashed into a bunch of cars on the other one-way street next to us. We won't know til tomorrow if the kid or parents had insurance or not, he wouldn't give his name and pretended to not speak english.
Then the weekend before that, someone had scraped/dented the whole side of mom's van and knocked off the mirror. Yes, the same one knocked off just now. Dad *JUST* installed the replacement a few days ago.
What I wouldn't give to move, I hate this neighborhood, I hate that I don't feel safe or safe leaving my car outside. We're going to try writing the Alderman, getting all our neighbors to sign a petition to at least get speedbumps down this street and maybe the alley. I don't know what else they can do. I want those gut-busting speedbumps so if you go more than 5 mph down this street it'll fuck your car up.