Just bumping this to ask if there’s any news you want to share with us…?
(I always want to hear how these things turn out.)
No news. I really think it’s more their nosy neighbor stirring up shit than anything else. I still won’t let my son go over there, but moreso because I don’t really know them. The girl’s mother has come over here and has at least checked out the surroundings, but they don’t live in the neighbor’s house. The woman is the neighbor’s daughter, and the girl is the granddaughter. I don’t have a problem with them other than the occasional double parking. The girl seems sweet enough, and my son really likes when she comes over.
In fact, Tuesday, my wife and son were walking the girl home (about a block or so away) when my son held out his hand and asked “May I?” to the girl. They held hands all the way home.
So, everything is alright, I suppose. No visits by The Man in about 2 weeks or so, so that’s good.
Not normal? Well it’s unusual to have the police by so often but having them do so is not necessarily indicative of bad behaviour on the part of the householder.
In July i had the police visit twice in one day and then a few weeks later greet me by name as i passed a group of them in the train station. What did i do wrong? Nothing, i happened to have foiled a robbery is all.
Similarly one of my colleagues had police at his door late one night - because he had helped a young woman who had been mugged and they needed a statement. A neighbour of my mother often has the police calling round - he is a police officer himself and his friends sometimes visit after work.
Just because someone has official groups involved in their lives does not mean they have done anything wrong. And as **Casey1505 ** has now found out - it’s actually someone different who is causing trouble here and not the grandparents of her stunningly well-mannered son’s friend.
I would snag one of the cops, or find one somewhere else (if it’s a small community, all the cops are going to know what’s going on) and phrase the question as follows:
“Hey, I’m a little concerned about my neighbors at [address]. The cops have been out there on a regular basis and my kid plays with their kid. I don’t want any details because I know it’s not my business and I don’t want you to violate any confidentiality rules, but should I be concerned about my kid going over there to play?”
And they’ll probably either just tell you “do” or “don’t” let your kid go over there and leave it at that…or they may tell you that there’s a nosy-assed neighbor who calls the cops on a regular basis and there’s nothing actually going on over there.
If it was me, I’d ask because it concerns the welfare of my kids…and I’m nosy and would like to get any info they’d give me. 