My Front Yard is a Place of Weirdness

[revena]

It just never ends over here.

Walking home from class just now, I saw a guy lying on his back in my front yard, behind the wall. I honestly can't tell if he's asleep, or passed out, or what... I'm suspecting he's been drinking or doing drugs, from the way he's splayed out (does not look like normal sleep posture). I called the police. I told Jameson that if he wasn't on crutches right now, I would have had him go out with me to try and find out if the guy needs medical attention or something, but since my boy has limited mobility, I don't want to get close enough to a strange man who may or may not be in a chemically altered state to tell anything useful.

Soooo... I'll just wait nervously for the cops to show up. And wish that I had a front yard that was less attractive to strangers, I guess.

ETA: The very nice bicycle policeman woke the guy up (he was only sleeping, after all) and told him to go away. He went. Then the policeman told mom and me that if the guy comes back on our property, we can have him arrested for trespassing.

And then, as I was coming back to my house after going next door to talk to the policeman and mom, I saw the same guy asleep on the steps of the building next door, right across from my front door. Somehow, I don't really feel totally ok with this.

I guess I really need to find out who actually owns that building, and have a talk with them about what they intend to do about the fact that whenever transients aren't sleeping on the steps, drug dealers are selling their wares there. I can handle the occasional emotional teenager having a dramatic moment in my yard or driveway. I'm pretty deeply uncomfortable with all of the scary, fully adult persons engaging in numerous illegal activities ten feet from my front door, though.

Comments

[zinaya-y2kewel.livejournal.com]

You need a dog. A big one.

[gimini-chick-in.livejournal.com]

I can help with that. Want a big hairy attack Akita?

[zinaya-y2kewel.livejournal.com]

I wish. :D

I live in an apartment but it will be a beautiful day when I can have a house full of animals. Akita!

[revena.livejournal.com]

It'd be great to have one for situations like this, but all the cleaning up after and feeding and walking and so on between times would get tiresome... ;-)

[revena.livejournal.com]

My dad has a corgi. Wyatt would have a hard time scaring anyone, though.

[lesbiem.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's why they teach you to kick someone to see if their conscious in first aid classes, before administering aide. Seriously. Next time, just kick him a little:)

[revena.livejournal.com]

I just didn't even want to go -near- him. What if he jumped up and started attacking me or something crazy?

I pay taxes so that I can call big, strong, heavily armed police persons to do this stuff for me.

[lesbiem.livejournal.com]

Hey lady...black belt?????

[revena.livejournal.com]

1st rule of self defense - don't get into a situation in which you have to defend yourself.

If someone comes after me, yeah I'm gonna fight like a demon... But I'm not going to go around looking for a fight.

[gimini-chick-in.livejournal.com]

So.....it's 10:15 over here....what happened with that dude?

[revena.livejournal.com]

*goes to look*

He's still sleeping on the steps across the alley. I want to take my garbage out, but I don't wanna walk past him alone. It creeps me out. And pisses me off.

*fumes*

[gimini-chick-in.livejournal.com]

Jeeze! What happened to the cops?? So, he moved from the yard to the steps? Is that on someone elses property now?

[revena.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's not on our property anymore (I added some stuff onto the original post about what happened when a police officer finally arrived), and I don't even know who owns the building next door. People are all over their steps all the time, and I've been meaning to try and address it forever... It just makes me really uncomfortable to have all of this stuff going on right outside my front door, and I want them to do something about it.

[gimini-chick-in.livejournal.com]

Heh...sorry! I didn't notice the addition...I'm working off 3 hours of sleep last night. :-P

If it makes you feel better, there is some critter outside my front door right now knawing at something on my porch, and it sounds like an alien is about to come bursting through at any moment. My front door doesn't lock at the moment, either.