I posted here about my moms neighbors.
She did call the city about the garbage stench - they came out and ticketed the neighbors. I called child protection on the toddler sleeping in the shed, but at this time they can’t do anything but note it. If anyone calls CPS again they will investigate. (Note: I am a mandatory reporter. The peeing in the yard I can overlook. Sleeping in an unventilated shed? No).
Sunday afternoon Mom was mowing her back yard when she was yelled at to shut it off. Thinking it was my nephew still in his guard uniform she glanced at the guy, nodded, and kept mowing. The guy came closer and she realized it was not nephew coming to help, but rather a cop with his gun drawn. Turning off the mower she realized there was six cops, guns drawn, yelling at her to not move.
Let me note: Mom is a tiny thing. 5’1", maybe 100#, and 70 years old. She’s also starting to deal with senility issues.
Someone called 911 and reported a fight and shots fired at her address. She asked who reported such a thing - they said someone on a card phone - does she have one? She had NO idea what a card phone is (still doesn’t). They ended up going through every room and closet in her house to make sure everything was kosher.
While she was waiting for the police to tromp through her house - "AND THEY HAD THEIR SHOES ON!! - she looked out the kitchen window to see one of the neighbor kids looking at her and laughing. She pointed that out to one of the police, but by the time he got outside, the kid had taken off.
When Mom was telling me about that she mentioned her mailbox was open on Saturday, which confused her (“I’m sure I closed it”). She has some OCD issues, which leads her to checking everything 2 - 3 times to make sure its’ closed/locked. Her leaving a mailbox open is tantamount to my leaving a cheesecake untouched. Usually she is there when the mail carrier arrives, but Saturday she wasn’t. She has no idea whether they have been taking her mail, but she did say that over the past few months a few letters she was expecting have “disappeared” and a gift from her brother-in-law never showed up. Because of the senility issues which she knows she has, she didn’t want to say anything.
I know it’s just conjecture on our behalf. But the mail missing started not too long after the last time Mom told them to quit urinating against her fence.
So a huge fuck you, neighborinos. 12 against 1. Mom has been in her house for 26 years, and thanks to you and your residing next door for less than a year she is afraid. She can’t enjoy the yard she and Dad worked so hard on due to the stench of unrine and garbage. She can’t relax in her front yard because the eldest woman will come out and screech at her. Fuck you sideways.