Eagle5US
02-11-2008, 13:42
Honestly?!?
I live in fieldgrade and CSM housing on FT. Leonard Wood. Last night Kimberly and I heard yelling and whatnot outside (doors and windows closed), so being the kind of guy I am I went outside to investigate.
Turns out is was coming from the next street over, the driveway of the house involved is clearly visible (about 250meters from my back porch) as I look across my back yard and between the homes that are behind mine-then across that street.
There is a car running in the driveway, teenagers yelling between the house and the car, the last thing I hear from the guy at the door to the kids in the car is "you don't live here, you can't tell me to leave". Then they all run in the house.
I get my phone, go down to the house and knock on the door (which is open)...
Black teenager with baggy shorts off his hips, t-shirt, doo-rag and braids:
"what do you want dude?"
ME: "I want to know if you live here"
TEEN: "yeah, I live here"
ME: "How long have you lived here?"
TEEN: "I dunno-but this is MY house"
ME: "This is your house, but you don't know how long you have lived here?"
TEEN: "That's right, I don't know how long I've lived here, but this is my house" while he is smiling at his buds peeking around the corner.
ME: "OK, then I am calling the MP's and they can figure out how long you have lived here."
So I call, they show up in force, the kids MOTHER shows up about the same time. I relay the story, she's all pissed off AT ME for knocking on her door in the first place, and most certainly for calling the police. I tell her this is a quiet neighborhood and we don't generally have these types of issues here. This was out of the ordinary and her son wouldn't say how long he lived in the house.
After hearing "you don't live here, you can't make me leave" and seeing everyone go inside, I felt it best to let the Police sort it out. They took statements, info reports etc...
I shook her hand, gave the "no hard feelings bit" and went home, a little bent that she was pissed at me for being the neighborhood watch guy instead of her being pissed off at her kid for causing this in the first place. Her words, "They are just teenagers being teenagers. He don't know you, so he shouldn't be answering any of your questions". OK fine, whatever, that's why I called the MP's, so he could answer THEIR questions.
So TODAY, my next door neighbor (Herb) comes over and rings the bell. Turns out the father from last night's incident is a LTC currently in Iraq. My neighbor (Herb) is his CSM. Herb just got a call (from the pissed off LTC in Iraq) after hearing the story (I am assuming from the wife) of how I interrogated and harassed his kid for no reason then called the MP's.
Seeing how both the LTC and his wife work in the post HQ with the post CG, you can imagine the next thing that came out:
"Well, this is probably going to go higher since they are such close friends with the post CG-probably a harassment complaint with housing"
:rolleyes:
I told him to go ahead and put me on the General's calendar, I would be glad to speak with him regarding MY recollection of events. Friends or not, I doubt he is going to publicly support a bunch of teenagers creating a ruckus at night that can be heard 250meters away in a closed house.
This is MILITARY HOUSING for goodness sakes. WTH?
The MP's said it was a good call. I called and spoke to the watch commander today who said there is absolutely zero that they can do against us for calling regarding a disturbance.
I am not worried, intimidation is fairly useless against me, and I gargle no man's balls.
It is more the principle of this whole encounter. I friggin hate it. Stuff like this is why people refuse to get involved. If it would have happened at MY house, I would only HOPE that someone would call the police to get it straightened out.
OK...
Rant off....
I just don't get it...
Eagle
I live in fieldgrade and CSM housing on FT. Leonard Wood. Last night Kimberly and I heard yelling and whatnot outside (doors and windows closed), so being the kind of guy I am I went outside to investigate.
Turns out is was coming from the next street over, the driveway of the house involved is clearly visible (about 250meters from my back porch) as I look across my back yard and between the homes that are behind mine-then across that street.
There is a car running in the driveway, teenagers yelling between the house and the car, the last thing I hear from the guy at the door to the kids in the car is "you don't live here, you can't tell me to leave". Then they all run in the house.
I get my phone, go down to the house and knock on the door (which is open)...
Black teenager with baggy shorts off his hips, t-shirt, doo-rag and braids:
"what do you want dude?"
ME: "I want to know if you live here"
TEEN: "yeah, I live here"
ME: "How long have you lived here?"
TEEN: "I dunno-but this is MY house"
ME: "This is your house, but you don't know how long you have lived here?"
TEEN: "That's right, I don't know how long I've lived here, but this is my house" while he is smiling at his buds peeking around the corner.
ME: "OK, then I am calling the MP's and they can figure out how long you have lived here."
So I call, they show up in force, the kids MOTHER shows up about the same time. I relay the story, she's all pissed off AT ME for knocking on her door in the first place, and most certainly for calling the police. I tell her this is a quiet neighborhood and we don't generally have these types of issues here. This was out of the ordinary and her son wouldn't say how long he lived in the house.
After hearing "you don't live here, you can't make me leave" and seeing everyone go inside, I felt it best to let the Police sort it out. They took statements, info reports etc...
I shook her hand, gave the "no hard feelings bit" and went home, a little bent that she was pissed at me for being the neighborhood watch guy instead of her being pissed off at her kid for causing this in the first place. Her words, "They are just teenagers being teenagers. He don't know you, so he shouldn't be answering any of your questions". OK fine, whatever, that's why I called the MP's, so he could answer THEIR questions.
So TODAY, my next door neighbor (Herb) comes over and rings the bell. Turns out the father from last night's incident is a LTC currently in Iraq. My neighbor (Herb) is his CSM. Herb just got a call (from the pissed off LTC in Iraq) after hearing the story (I am assuming from the wife) of how I interrogated and harassed his kid for no reason then called the MP's.
Seeing how both the LTC and his wife work in the post HQ with the post CG, you can imagine the next thing that came out:
"Well, this is probably going to go higher since they are such close friends with the post CG-probably a harassment complaint with housing"
:rolleyes:
I told him to go ahead and put me on the General's calendar, I would be glad to speak with him regarding MY recollection of events. Friends or not, I doubt he is going to publicly support a bunch of teenagers creating a ruckus at night that can be heard 250meters away in a closed house.
This is MILITARY HOUSING for goodness sakes. WTH?
The MP's said it was a good call. I called and spoke to the watch commander today who said there is absolutely zero that they can do against us for calling regarding a disturbance.
I am not worried, intimidation is fairly useless against me, and I gargle no man's balls.
It is more the principle of this whole encounter. I friggin hate it. Stuff like this is why people refuse to get involved. If it would have happened at MY house, I would only HOPE that someone would call the police to get it straightened out.
OK...
Rant off....
I just don't get it...
Eagle