Posted on 05/26/2006 7:16:26 AM PDT by 54-46 Was My Number
That's even better. Love it!
I can sympathize! My poor folks. They're not wealthy people, but they worked hard all their lives and paid off their home. They never asked for a dime from anyone else.
And here the county moves this "family" right next door. The first thing those kids did, too, was break into my parent's shed and steal tools. The whole lot of them terrorize the neighborhood. Everyone is frightened of them.
They're part of a "home ownership" program in which the government subsidizes their mortgage. I've tried every angle, called every county office imaginable, and there's no way to have them removed.
Call the county and state police if they aren't already on it. They're a lot more likely than local police to have an organized effort to deal with illegal fireworks. They're often tracking down the distributors and retailers, and cutting off the supply, as well as trying to trace the worst users (like the ones terrorizing your neighborhood) through these sellers. In Long Island a couple of days ago, county police stopped a truck that was illegally carrying 18,000 pounds of fireworks, enough to flatten a whole block. Just what we need bouncing through the tunnels to Manhattan!
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--fireworksseized0524may24,0,4986716.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
We had a run of "mailbox jousters", who would hang a 4x4 out of a car window and joust mailbox's off of their posts. I know one guy who put a small mailbox inside a large mailbox, and filled in the empty space with concrete, and set it with a steel post into more concrete. A week or so later, his mailbox was hit. Sure enough, one of the high school parking lot punks came to school with a broken arm. No more mailbox jousting.
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Doing nothing never solved anything.
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