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solarbirdFirst weekend after the riots two blocks south of here. It's interesting.
The house next to mine had a party going when we got back a little before midnight. It got noticeably louder in the first 20 minutes we were home - they cranked up the music and the screams-per-minute count started going up. Also, someone was parked blocking the south driveway and the partiers were parking on the front lawn next door, and illegal other places as well.
I went next door, tried to talk to them and tried to find out whether the person who owned the car blocking our driveway was there; they were mostly too drunk to talk coherently, but said that nobody there owned the car.
So I called in the blocked driveway, and then I made a separate call about the party noise itself. It had been well over the noise limit when we got here, and it only got worse, so I figured it was going to ramp up into fuck-off land by around 2am.
15 minutes later, the car was ticketed and the party was shut down. That was neat. And also kind of creepy. But neat.
However.
Apparently, police are now marking driveway-blocking tickets as "citizen complaint." This is true. But it's also new. So, of course, I got a 12:40am knock on my door by the car's owner and his friend, who proceed to yell at me for "getting them a $40 ticket." (They apparently don't consider the driveway blocked unless it's _completely_ blocked, and yelled at us, saying it was "mean" and that us calling it in was "inhuman.") We just kept saying that we'd tried to find if anybody knew who owned the car and nobody claimed it, and that entry was blocked (to which he said anybody who couldn't get around his car - which was a good four or five feet over the legal line - shouldn't have a license), and if he didn't want tickets he should not park in front of our driveway, but that, aheh, did not help.
After we closed the door, he stood outside on the sidewalk with his friend having a hissy fit for about 10 or 15 minutes, complete with those little "burst of rage" screams that you sometimes hear.
So. If you're in Seattle, be aware that if you call in someone parking in front of your driveway, it may get marked "citizen complaint," and since it's your driveway, they'll know where to go to yell. They're still outside cursing quite loudly about it right now. Fun!
There was just another stream of pissed-off partiers going by heading back south, too. Another party must have had the hammer come down. Or something.
By comparison, last year at this time there were four active, out-of-control parties in a three house radius. So it's kind of an improvement. We''ll see what happens next.
The house next to mine had a party going when we got back a little before midnight. It got noticeably louder in the first 20 minutes we were home - they cranked up the music and the screams-per-minute count started going up. Also, someone was parked blocking the south driveway and the partiers were parking on the front lawn next door, and illegal other places as well.
I went next door, tried to talk to them and tried to find out whether the person who owned the car blocking our driveway was there; they were mostly too drunk to talk coherently, but said that nobody there owned the car.
So I called in the blocked driveway, and then I made a separate call about the party noise itself. It had been well over the noise limit when we got here, and it only got worse, so I figured it was going to ramp up into fuck-off land by around 2am.
15 minutes later, the car was ticketed and the party was shut down. That was neat. And also kind of creepy. But neat.
However.
Apparently, police are now marking driveway-blocking tickets as "citizen complaint." This is true. But it's also new. So, of course, I got a 12:40am knock on my door by the car's owner and his friend, who proceed to yell at me for "getting them a $40 ticket." (They apparently don't consider the driveway blocked unless it's _completely_ blocked, and yelled at us, saying it was "mean" and that us calling it in was "inhuman.") We just kept saying that we'd tried to find if anybody knew who owned the car and nobody claimed it, and that entry was blocked (to which he said anybody who couldn't get around his car - which was a good four or five feet over the legal line - shouldn't have a license), and if he didn't want tickets he should not park in front of our driveway, but that, aheh, did not help.
After we closed the door, he stood outside on the sidewalk with his friend having a hissy fit for about 10 or 15 minutes, complete with those little "burst of rage" screams that you sometimes hear.
So. If you're in Seattle, be aware that if you call in someone parking in front of your driveway, it may get marked "citizen complaint," and since it's your driveway, they'll know where to go to yell. They're still outside cursing quite loudly about it right now. Fun!
There was just another stream of pissed-off partiers going by heading back south, too. Another party must have had the hammer come down. Or something.
By comparison, last year at this time there were four active, out-of-control parties in a three house radius. So it's kind of an improvement. We''ll see what happens next.
