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The neighborhood is getting worse.

When I first moved into this duplex, the neighborhood was great, a lot of single family homes, kids playing safely, riding bikes, neighbors actually talking to each other, a really nice place to live.
Over the last few years, it has gone downhill big time.
I keep saying that I need to get a gun for home protection due to almost attempted break-ins, and low-lifes stealing things right out of my carport.
I want to get some home insurance, or renters insurance, not really sure how that works if you rent a house, do you get home insurance or renters insurance?

Anyway, it's getting worse, as I said.
Saturday night, it wasn't late, maybe 8:30pm, the teens wanted to walk up to 7-eleven to get some snacks for themselves, I was still feeling sick, and they had just gone out the door when they came right back in not even 10 seconds later.
There was a really drunk man, looked to be late 20s- early 30s, walking down the sidewalk screaming at anyone else who was outside, that he was "going to get them".
I opened the door a crack so I could hear him and see him, and there he was, walking really fast down the sidewalk trying to catch up to 2 other teenagers, 2 boys looked about Sebastian's age, maybe 15-16 years old, who were trying to get home.
The guy was screaming, staggering around, but looked really angry, fists clenched up, and the 2 teens were trying to walk as fast as they could to get away from him, and he kept yelling.
The neighbor guy next door went out to see what was going on, the 2 teens were by his mailbox now, and he asked them what was going on.
They asked him for help, they told him the guy was following them, had followed them all the way down the street, they asked him to please help, to call the cops.
The neighbor didn't go in and call the cops, instead he tried to talk to the drunk guy.
Tried.
The drunk took a swing, that's when I told Sebastian to get me the phone, I called the cops and told them what was going on, and they said they were sending 2 units out.
Lucky they were close by, they got here in about 1 minute, so they must have been just down Ashton road by the post office or something,
The neighbor was not fighting with the guy, not swinging back, but he did get hit a few times, the 2 teens were practically hiding behind the neighbor's SUV, they were still scared, being quiet, 1 of them yelled to the drunk guy to leave him alone because the drunk kept swinging at and connecting about 1 out of every 4 swings, to the neighbor.
The cops just grabbed the guy, didn't even try talking to calm him down, just grabbed him because he was being violent.
They cuffed him and put him in the cruiser and then got statements from the neighbor and the 2 teens, and then came and took our statements, then they hauled him off to jail.
We were in the house, the teens watching out the windows, and I out the cracked door, none of us were going to go out there, no way.
I'm getting really annoyed with the kinds of people who have moved into the neighborhood man.
I'm just tired of the attempted break-ins, thieves, and now, the belligerent drunks trying to beat up teenagers.

Comments

I am glad that Mark and Sebastian are okay but that kind of thing happens in every neighborhood even here is Old Orchard and It happened in Pa when I was a teen ager too. To bad people can't control themselves enough to act like human instead of animals. You have to go to the store in the day light and some times that does not even work. Love You Stay safe

Hi! When your story was on the Today show, came across your site, and today decided to see if you had any updates on your family. :)
Im an Insurance broker up in canada, but just wanted to say call a local broker and ask about renters insurance. if you dont own your home, you dont need house insurance (the owner should have that) and you can get contents and liability coverage for low premiums.
Up here a usual contents package is say $30-40k in contents coverage for about $200/yr. covers your contents for fire, theft, vandalism, ect. usually they include Liability too, so in the event something happens to someone in your house, or on the property you caused you would be covered from any law suits.
Now being in Canada im sure its similar in the states, but call a broker, and im sure they will be happy to help you out and get you covered.

You'd get renter's insurance. It would cover just your belongings. The last time we had to get it I think it was something like a $100 a year (but I lived in a apartment at the time and didn't own much).

As for the neighborhood, I live 2 blocks from the liquor store. You can guess what we get awalking by a lot.

I'm glad the teens are OK. And I'm glad they hauled the drunk to the klink.


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