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Tuesday, March 01, 2005

The Pissing Deck, Part II
Our obnoxious neighbors had another party last night. It went until 4:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m.!) on a Monday night (Monday night!). Our previous request to them was to keep people off the deck on weeknights (Sunday-Thursday) by 9:00 p.m., and on weekends by midnight. I'm guessing their logic was that people weren't hanging out on the deck continuously last night. But is it better that people were using the deck as an entry point to get in and out of the house until 4:30 a.m.?! NO. Not to mention the peeing off the deck. We have had this problem with them before, if you can believe it. What is wrong with these people? Were they raised in places where there are only outhouses? It just doesn't make sense to me-- everyone I have mentioned this to has been completely disgusted by the idea of someone pissing off a second-story deck. So what in their social circle makes it acceptable? And they are still using our roof as a trash can-- someone threw a lighter onto our roof which is 1) shitty and 2) dangerous! It did not have fluid in it anymore, but still! At around 4:15 I had to yell out the window that there was a baby in the house that was trying to sleep. So they went inside, then went out the front door and, according to Kyle, started running and shouting in the street. We had even called the police for the first time to report the noise disturbance, but they did not go up to the house because for whatever reason, the noise had died down when the police were walking up to the house.

This is the view from my bedroom window when our trashy neighbors are having a party

I'm thinking there's no being nice anymore. What I want to do now is basically put a motion sensor floodlight pointed directly at the deck, so anyone who goes out there at night can't see anything because of the light. Or, better yet, figure out ways that the deck is not to code (and trust me, "not up to code" is written all over it) and get the damn thing torn down.

In the meantime, we'll try to get a "call the po-po" strategy going with our neighbors-- maybe if all of us call the police about the same party, they will actually go to the door of the house this time and break it up.

We are now contacting the landlords and it's Smackdown in Seattle time!

posted by sheryl | 7:10 PM |

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