criminal update
Jun. 21st, 2007 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So my neighbor's garage was broken into a couple months ago.
Then (I find out recently) another neighbor's tires were stolen off her car while it sat in the parking lot across the (very short) street from her house.
Then I find out not only did the two teenagers attempt to break into my house, but they also succeeded in breaking into someone else's house up the street earlier that morning - and very helpfully left their prints behind on a couple of beer bottles they drank while they were B&E-ing. (Criminal masterminds, yes?)
Lastly, my neighbor told me last night that all four tires on his truck were slashed, as were three other neighbors on the street in the last week.
So I'm sitting contemplating a decision - continue to live here and have actual money.
Or move and be broke in a nicer neighborhood.
Anyone? Bueller?
*headdesk*
Then (I find out recently) another neighbor's tires were stolen off her car while it sat in the parking lot across the (very short) street from her house.
Then I find out not only did the two teenagers attempt to break into my house, but they also succeeded in breaking into someone else's house up the street earlier that morning - and very helpfully left their prints behind on a couple of beer bottles they drank while they were B&E-ing. (Criminal masterminds, yes?)
Lastly, my neighbor told me last night that all four tires on his truck were slashed, as were three other neighbors on the street in the last week.
So I'm sitting contemplating a decision - continue to live here and have actual money.
Or move and be broke in a nicer neighborhood.
Anyone? Bueller?
*headdesk*
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Date: 2007-06-22 06:21 am (UTC)Sadly, crime is everywhere. Plus, 'nicer' neighbourhoods attract burglars moreso. for Several years before I moved to where I am now, lived in what you'd call a 'lower class *sighs & rolls eyes- doncha just hate class stereotyping?* and burglaries were less common than the much 'nicer' district I grew up in. The fancier the area, the more tempting the goodies.
Apparently, even your own private island isn't safe from crime (modern-day Pirates- guh!) so if you have a garage, use it, and beef up your locks, burglar alarm systems and read above about toothy-grinned dog ;-). (Extra) Prevention, blah de blah, is easier on the pocket in the long run than struggling to make ends meet in the hope of finding a place that is blissfully crime-free.
*hugs*
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Date: 2007-06-22 07:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-22 10:42 am (UTC)If you have the energy you might consider forming a Neighborhood Watch crew on your street. They work pretty well here. The cops get involved, usually Officer Friendly comes to meetings to speak, etc., and you can signs post through the neighborhood. Plus it gives everyone a sense of community, and a feeling that they're doingsomething. (Oh, there will be pains in the assese aplenty, but isn't that true everywhere?)
Better neighborhoods sometimes have the same or worse issues, because nobody's immune. There's a very chic community here that has a very high-end mall -- more cars are broken into and stolen in that lot than in our run down shopping center on the 'iffy' side of town. :D I think it's because the haul is better.
Ah well, my two pence for what it's worth!