Bad Boys, Bad Boys …
Since we are enjoying Disneyland today and tomorrow, I wanted to share a little story that happened a week or so ago, enjoy!
Pic of the Day ~ The Darling Becca
Last weekend there was a little craziness in our apartment complex, in fact right across the hallway from us! The apartment across has been empty for a few weeks now. I have seen the cleaners and painters in there preparing it for a new tenant, but no furniture or any indication that people are moving in ASAP.
We got home to discover a homeless man sleeping next to the garbage bins, next to him a 24 pack of beer. It is not normal for the homeless to sleep in the apartment complex. It is kind of a “Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds you” type of concept. There is a blind eye to people checking out the garbage and sorting through it and in return they leave the property alone.
I called the Courtesy Patrol, however I think it was still a little early and they were not patrolling yet. I left a message and felt I had done my duty. Later that evening, I was reading blogs and J was watching some TV, when there was a knock on the door. A lady was inquiring if the apartment next door was rented out. J answered no, then she wanted J to tell her friend that so she could get her to leave. J told them he did not want to get involved. At this point I am all WTH?!?! So I call the Curtesy Patrol again and talk to a guy.
He comes by and causally asks the people if they rented the apartment…blah blah blah…then walks away. So I start bitching to J, that there is no way those people are renting that apartment, yak yak yak. The Patrol guy calls us to say he has called the police and to lie low.
Dudes I so did not need to be told not to stick my head out that door!!! So after a long wait the police show up all yelling and kicking the homeless people out. The guy that was inviting people over was a new guy in the area, but the others were very well known to the police. Rather than marching them all to jail they were banned from the property, which really is worse, since that affects their food and income.
It was the first time we had to encounter the craziness of police and that jazz. It was like watching a boring episode of Cops! It definitely was the closest I would like to get to crime down here, but it did spice up our Saturday night!
Creepy! When we were first looking for houses out here, we went over to the beach area and oh.my.god. I have never seen so many homeless people in my life! Even with all the Romanian gypsies in Spain, we hardly ever saw homeless people. Such a shame to have it here.
Scary! and really sad,too…
How scary! I think I would have done the same thing - stay inside, call others to take care of the problem!
That is kind scary! Hopefully you’ll have real tenants living there soon so something like that doesn’t happen again!
Geez… never a dull moment in your life, lol.
I bet your heart was pounding like crazy when you heard all the commotion with the cops.
Kind of like when 1 showed up at my door to summons me to court (except he was hubba hubba HOT!, lol)
and why haven’t we met yet??????? you have an exciting life. Hee Hee…
Hmoeless people scare the crap out of me. I know they’re just people and need help but every time I’m driving alone they seem to come out of the woodwork to knock on my windows and demand that I unroll my window.