My Neighborhood Rocks

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I know this category is here somewhere, but I can't find it. The forum is just too big. It's time to cull, starting with the Barbie posts.

But I learned a valuable lesson this morning at 3am. Do you know how to tell the difference between firecrackers and gunshots? It's very easy. Police Helicopters don't circle your house for an hour if it's firecrackers.

There were about ten shots. We got to hear them because the window was ope due to the fact it's 80 degrees outside. You have to love the SoCal winter.

[cranefly]

I take it they don't have triangulation sensors in the city. That would simplify matters considerably -- though it stinks of Big Brother.

I've always wanted to rig up half a dozen guns to fire simultaneously in different areas, just to keep them busy debugging "the glitch" in their system.

The problem is, I don't have any guns -- and the swords and spears I do have don't make a loud enough bang when I pull their trigger.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I got a note on my door this morning saying I might be hearing gunshots from the park. They were filming something called the ultimate action warriors and were going to do some single shot firing.

Thought 1) If I didn't have any note, it wouldn't have made any difference that I heard gunshots coming from the park.

Thought 2) I wonder if we can get the gang bangers to post notes when they are going to fire so I won't confuse them with fireworks?

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

You know when you visit I always rhapsodize about the dangers of the turn off the freeway into my neighborhood? Bore you is more the proper term, I'm sure. But what if there is video?

Highland Park Crash

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

We have a peacock in the neighborhood! Top that.

Okay, it's not that big of a deal. They are supposed to be pests. They screach. They poop. In one neighborhood in the Southland it has pitted neighbor against neighbor. That neighborhood has a plethora of peacocks (score me one for illiteration). Some of the neighbors love them. Some want to put them into sacks and toss them in to the sea. We only have one and the only nuisance factor so far has been a dog barking at the bird for an hour as it perched on the dog's roof.

Still, we've got peacocks. What you got?

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

6'5'' black transvestite hooker.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I used to be so much better at this game.

[Drunk Monk]

A peacock escaped from Ardenwood farm, which is about a mile away from our home, and decided to stroll up our street a few years back. And when we first moved in, there were some lipstick lesbians that lived next door. They would make-out in the car in front of the house now and again, and occasionally throw raves (although I was never invited).

Of course, we don't have any place for late night eats. And I just got a ticket this morning for trying to run over an old lady in a crosswalk. Did you know that's illegal? I'm sure that's the work of BushCo. Hopefully Obama will put an end to that ridiculousness.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

I got one of those tickets, but, as I pointed out to the officer, the pedestrian was young and agile and therefore not in any real danger. Cop didn't even crack a smile.

Expensive ticket.

[Drunk Monk]

I picked up a copy of our Good Times, our local scene newspaper, and there 2020 Best of list, which covers all the way to Watsonville, where all our covid cases are. Guess which hood is the Best of 2020? That's right. C-brite. FTW! BTW, did you know that C-brite beach used to be called Castle Beach because it used to have a restaurant spa that looked like a castle? I knew that. Because I live here. And we're the best of 2020.

[Greg]

No peacocks, I'll bet.