The Neighbors Gotta Go

I have got to vent. I am sick and tired of my neighbors! Many time I have had to call the police about those two outside in the driveway or middle of their yard screaming and physically fighting with each other. Early in the morning, mid afternoon, and wee hours of the morning they are out there pounding away on each other and screaming language to profane for this websites audience.

The first time I called the police there one of my daycare mothers came in asking if I knew this toddler that was walking up and down the driveway crying for her mother. I brought her into my home to keep her safe. Apparently the dad had taken the other three children to daycare but this child was still asleep and so he left her home alone. I called DHR first and they said someone would be right out here. Thirty minutes later DHR called me back and asked me to call the police. I told them no, you call the police, I'm busy with my own daycare children. I called the police anyway and they told me to call DHR. I told them no, I was busy with a daycare and they needed to come see about this child.

Multiple times in the last three years since they've lived there, by the way, it's a rental house and the house number is 911. Go figure. Anyway, One time they woke me up at 3:00 something in the morning. My bedroom is on the total opposite side of the house and yet they woke me out of a dead sleep. I yelled out the door for them to go in and give the neighborhood some rest. He threatened me in his usual vulgar language so I went back inside and got the cordless phone and called 911 from my porch where he could hear me. They continued to fight with all four children screaming and crying in the driveway.

Before the officer arrived, and I know this because I was sitting in the room closest to their house eaves dropping, I overheard Shamika (I think that's her name) yelling at Nick, "You know she calling the police."

He responded with, "I'll F*** her up and her husband too."

They continued to fight and I continued to listen until I heard, "Well I aint the one goin' out and gettin' someone pregnant." Oh, so that's what this was about.

The officer arrived and asked, "What's going on here?"

Nick: "Nothin' officer we just haveing a little argument. Everybody has arguments [keep in mind it's 3:00 something in the morning and they are outside doing this]. That old lady [that what?!] is always calling the cops on us."

Oh for God's sake!

This morning I could hear them out there at 6:30. I thought it was just a loud verbal argument that ended when he screeched out of the driveway and floored it until his exhaust left black stains in the road. He was taking three of the children to school. Don't you know they were scared.

As soon as he returned (in the same manner in which he left) the fight resumed with the youngest child there in the middle of it screaming and crying and it was physical this time. Right there in front of my daycare children and their parents arriving around 7:45. I called 911. One of the daycare dads answered and recognized me immediately. I did not call DHR. I regret that. I was so angry with my neighbors behaving that way infront of my daycare children. They are violating my basic right to quiet enjoyment of my own property. The police do nothing but send one of them away for 12 hours but 12 hours and aminutelater the one is back.

And they have these dogs over there. No fence, just a bunch of dogs tied up here and there and a couple in a little dog pen. They get loose regularly and I have had to call the animal shelter to deal with them on several occasions because my daycare children and their mothers are afraid of the dogs. Today one was loose and it took a bath in my goldfish pond tearing up my waterlily and my zebra grass and killing at least two fish.

The neighbors gotta go!