Disturbance...

Last night, some crazy lady broke into my neighbors house around 1am. Some woman was walking up and down our block hoopin' and hollerin' about something, then wham! Glass breaks, and sounds of shit being thrown all over the place. I immediately call 911 to report the disturbance and give a description of what I could see from upstairs. I say no less than 2 minutes, like 8 cop cars come rollin' up, a fire engine, and ambulance (big ass difference from when we lived on the 8-5). They're shining their flood lights and flash lights going from yard to yard with their guns drawn... dayum! In the darkness, all you see are all black figures running back and forth, and a shout of "Put your hands up and don't move!" Holy moly! Eventually, they caught the woman and our neighbor was safe, thank God. Although her place got wrecked pretty bad, she at least got out of the house ok.

On a closely related note, our other neighbors are full of shitake mushrooms and bull tacos!!! They have this whack ass neighborhood watch, but whenever there is a crime committed in the neighborhood, their asses are the last to call 911 or try to check out what they can. I remember a few years ago, a woman was beaten and almost raped a few blocks down by this asshole that a few of us  complained about causing trouble, but other folks felt he was harmless. This F%cker was a dayum pervert, but folks would still hire him to cut their lawns and odd jobs and whatnot. Anyway, when this particular incident happened, it took neighbors half way around the corner to do anything! Thank goodness one of our neighbors at the time was a sheriff. SHE hemmed his ass up really good until the cops came to cart him away. I mean, the victim was screaming bloody murder for Christ sakes, and these jackasses turned off their porch lights and did nothing. But of course, the next day they came to our house and to the others that helped to be all nosey and shit. Thanks for nothin'!

Last night had me thinking about a social theory that was about the likelihood of helping others. How someone are more apt to do something if they are by themselves, as opposed to when they are in a group. Not to say that having a block of isolated neighbors would do the trick, but I think we can all do without the hen parties that don't do jack shit. Come on folks, if someone was posing a threat to you and your family, would you rather have some one help you out at that moment, or wait until the next day to talk about how unfortunate last night was?