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July 20, 2005
When you smell smoke....
There is Fire Crackers?
I think my upstairs neighbors have lost their calendar. Apparently they think that last night, and the night before that, and the 13 nights before that ... are all the FOURTH of July.
My next door neighbor, Matt, and I are really getting frustrated and have started taking turns calling security and reporting the *POWs* we hear every evening. This is happening about 4 - 5 times every evening since the 5th of July.
Until last night we were confused... we would hear a firecracker go off, directly in front of our apartment, and then immediately walk outside and there would be no one in sight. How they were fast enough to light a firecracker and get back in their apartment upstairs before we could get outside was baffling. But we solved the puzzle.
About 11:15 pm last night, I was sitting in my apartment, on the floor, finishing putting my computer back together (yeah, I actually put the cover back on it for the first time in over a month,)... and all of a sudden I started smelling smoke. Scared the you-know-what out of me and I panicked. I quickly started unplugging stuff from my computer even though it wasn't even plugged in. When the panic subsided about a minute later my brain kicked in... and I thought to myself... "Self? That's not smoke, that's gunpowder."
I immediately walked outside about the time to see the POW. My little blonde-dingbat, republican, daddy-pays-for-everything, rich-wench, "princess"-licenseplate bmw-driving, bratty upstairs neighbors were lighting firecrackers INSIDE their apartment and then tossing them out the window where it would pop right at the bottom of the stairs.
Last night, when security got there, they actually saw the remnants of the explosives at the bottom of the stairs. They went up and knocked on the door, but of course.. they were too much of a chicken"poop" to answer the door. We were told that security would tell the office managers today and that if it happened again to make sure we call after every single time a firecracker goes off. After a while, someone is going to get tired of the calls and do something about it.
I just hope they do something about it before my entire apartment building goes up in SMOKE.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at July 20, 2005 11:30 AM
Comments
First - Thank you so very much for your kind words.
Second - Fireworks were banned in our town a few years ago when the Mayor's sons
set their house on fire! HA! Still hasn't stopped some of the little hooligans,
though...
Posted by: Becky at July 20, 2005 04:19 PM
Oh I would be sooo pissed. I remember when my neigbhors lit their garage on fire
on New Years Eve 1999. Dumbasses. Hope ya have renters insurance....I'd
complain..again....maybe even to them...ya think?
Posted by: kimmyk at July 20, 2005 08:12 PM
Take it from a property manager, stop calling security and start calling the
police or the fire department. Sercurity has no authority and offers no
assistance for a property manager to evict on, a police report or fire
department report will create enough of a safety issue that your manager can
serve an eviction notice.
Posted by: KC at July 20, 2005 08:16 PM
I thought of you last night while watching IRON CHEF. That show just has me on
the edge of my seat. I love it..cept I think he made hamburger ice cream. GAG!
But I have a question...
What is a sous chef? they seem to do alot of the work. Is that their job? To be
the middle man...or do they get credit? They didn't seem to get much credit on
IRON CHEF...just curious cause they were workin their asses off.
Posted by: kimmyk at July 21, 2005 06:49 AM
What pains in the butt! I hoppe they get it stopped soon. How annoying!
Posted by: Renee at July 21, 2005 07:32 AM
what you can do is talk to your apt manager... if that doesnt work... call the
fire dept (not 911 unless something is on fire!)... but not police.. we cant do
anything but write tickets for it...
Posted by: Kitty at July 23, 2005 01:09 PM
I think you should light a firecracker in that bratty kids ass. That should hold
her for a while.
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Posted by: Jeff Vachon at July 25, 2005 05:46 PM
