Wednesday, July 1, 2009

You Reap What You Sow

Just talked to my daughter. They live behind a gated community with all the restrictions , rules, and HomeOwners Association costs that are included with such. The key words here are 'they live behind "; they are not a part of this community, have a restriction free deed to their land, as do their immediate neighbors. The live on, and actually own, a cul de sac. A nice, safe, dead end street for my girls to live and play on.

Or is it?

The HomeOwners Assoc. is pissed off that Erica, Jason, the neighbors, and the soon to be new neighbors, are exempt from their tyranny. They allow their teen agers to run rampant through the neighborhoods, terrorizing everyone. My daughter awoke one day last week to find 3 teen agers RipSticking on her newly poured driveway. When she opened her back door, one little darling had the audacity to throw his arms up in a gang sign and say" What the fuck are you doing here? YOU don't belong here." When she told them to get off her property, he offered up that his father ( head of the H.O. Assoc. told him he was allowed to skate on the INTERLOPER'S property!! Yeah..they are those kind of kids, from those kind of parents.

Today, these same sweet, well bred kids were racing the neighborhood in the leader's brand new pickup truck; one driving, 3 in the bed. He took a turn meant to be taken at about 15 mph at about 50; he missed the turn, ran through a neighbor's front yard...and met with a tree, head on. All 3 kids in the back were thrown out..one went over the cab of the truck, hit the tree. This was at 10:15 am this morning; it is now 12:45 pm, and the emergency crews and pollice are still at the scene.

I have no idea what condition any of them are in. I feel bad that I don't feel bad... my first and only thoughts were for my girls. What if they, or someone else, had been walking down the street at that moment? Or crossing the street? Or just in their own front yard?

I am consumed with What If's. Ugh. I'll find out what happened later.


Okay..it's later. One kid was critically injured.they've all be charged with wreckless endangerment, property damage, and a few other charges. The kid driving ( same one as with the RipStick on the driveway) had the cops yelling for him to shut the hell up...he was calling the cops names and demanding to be let go. Yeah..that's just what we all need. pfft

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