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Posted on 02/17/2010 9:34:26 AM PST by marktwain
By now you've heard all about the University of Alabama shooter, Amy Bishop, the shooting rampage, the old murder she got away with (the "cover-up" and the connection to now retiring Congressman Bill Delahunt), the letter bomb she likely sent...
Turns out I have a tenuous connection to this woman. You see she used to be the next door neighbor of a good friend of mine in Ipswich (a north shore Boston suburb) for a few years. At the time I used to hang out at his house quite a bit. This was one of those typical suburban neighborhoods with little traffic, lots of kids, smallish houses fairly close together without a lot of fences.
I remember when the previous neighbor moved out it wasn't long before my friend started complaining. He had a deck in the back of his place that was effectively on the second floor making it very visible to the neighbor's yard and house. So one day I go over to find that he had erected a wooden privacy fence on the side of the deck facing their yard -- and only on that side. So I'm like, "Uhh...isn't that a little uncomfortable. I mean it's obvious you put that there just to block only those people." He tells me he does...not...care. He doesn't want to look at them, and he doesn't want them to look. He hates them, as does the entire neighborhood. Here are some slightly edited reminiscences I just received:
They were there for 4 or 5 years and then moved to Alabama. When they left we all said "Those poor folks in Alabama"... bishopshooter.jpg
...She was such a trouble maker. I disengaged from them early on. I literally did not have any conversation or interaction with either her or her husband (also a nutball) for over 3 years. Nothing...
...She made a big stink about the kids playing basketball in the neighborhood. On the day they first moved into the house they drove their moving truck into the basketball post that was situated between our two driveways and under the streetlight. For years all the neighborhood kids played ball there (and so did some of the Dads). When they ran the post down we thought it was just a dumb-ass accident. We soon found out that they did it on purpose.
One of the other neighbors put up a new hoop on his property and she complained about the kids. It was a protracted fight that involved multiple calls to the police. The end result was that the kids in the neighborhood couldn't play ball after 7pm at night. She also complained about street hockey, skate boarding, tag, etc., etc...
Why move into a neighborhood if you don't want to hear kids playing??? That's the whole point of living in a neighborhood so kids have others to play with.
What pissed me off was the loony venom and fury that accompanied her attacks. She alleged that the basketball players were smoking pot at night and causing other trouble. Totally untrue. Look at the newspaper, the Ipswich Police were in the Globe today calling her a "regular customer". She complained about everything.
She nearly got into a fistfight one night with one of the Moms who was defending her son's right to play.
She complained so much the ice cream truck stopped driving through our street. If the kids wanted ice cream they had to go over to the next street and stop the truck.
Just this past Sunday morning as we were watching the news my son said, "Remember how she wouldn't let us have ice cream?" He was about 8 at the time and thought that it really sucked. All the kids knew that she was the cause.
There were a couple of neighborhood block parties in the last 2 years that she and her family weren't invited to because she had caused too many issues with people there. I remember there were probably 100 people at one party and they were the only ones not there. Everybody hated them. At one point someone let the air out of her tires.
The day they moved out I was getting home as their moving van pulled away and went up the street. I got out of my car and a bunch of the neighbors were outside and I yelled "Ding Dong the witch is dead!" and a cheer went up all around. Soon after the new people showed up to clean the house and move some things in and the whole street celebrated with a pizza party. We welcomed the new folks with open arms. It was like the sun finally came out again.
This is the first I’ve heard that Billy Delahunt is retiring from the House.
Good news.
I hope there’s another Scott Brown nearby to take Billy’s place.
typical libtard.
Hard-core 0bama voters have mental issues.
This just further shows it.
Looks like these folks dodged a bullet....
I believe it. Bishop should’ve been in the nuthouse.
Bishop ain’t gonna like her new neighbors much. LOL
Sounds like a distant relative of the Dinsdales.
Isn’t there a medical term for a person that just doesn’t fit into society...and that has an “I’m entitled” attitude?
No, I'm not a kumbaya liberal, but I HAVE seen a loving effort by others work miracles in the lives of mean, angry individuals.
This post doesn't address the question. I just wonder if anyone even tried. It certainly doesn't always work, but it's always worth trying, IMO.
It's called "Democrat".
Professional Victim? Oh, no, that has become a legal term...
Sociopath, psychopath, take your pick.
Sounds like another Obamanista to me.
Yeah, literally.
Eh. I’m not so sure I believe this side of the story.
Correction: I don’t believe it at all.
We’re easygoing neighbors to have. But, we’ve encountered many kids who cause trouble but whose parents will defend everything they do.
When we first moved to our house, there was a basketball net between our house and the next one. All the neighborhood kids came to play. Driving through, the neighborhood looked nice. But, when I was home with small children during the day, all I could hear from the basketball “court” was @#$%&*!. My husband finally came home one day and told them to leave. The other neighbor eventually took the net down.
Probably is.
But I work with an Obamanista, and we get along just fine.
There's no reason why there must be automatic anger or hatred involved.
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