Tonight I have learned that it does not pay to try to do the good neighbor thing by asking the boomers to turn off or turn down their music. On two others occasions in the last week my requests were granted, and the offending car stereos were turn off. However, tonight it was same the old routine of insults, bad language, and threats to do bodily harm if I went to a particular household and asked the driver to turn off his offending stereo.
It was a game to this man in the car and the woman who confronted me on the street. I would head for the house. Get half way there and the man would off the stereo. This routine was repeated this at least two more times before I realized that this was his sick little game. I was going to go up the the driveway and ask him the stop, but before I could a woman who stated she lived in the house confronted me what occurred next was unnecessary and after many insults and threats of bodily harm from the woman, I ended up calling the police.
The officer arrived and I told his as best as I could the situation. The witnesses would not open the door to speak with him. No surprise there, since many of the people here are scare to stand up against these trouble makers. Nevertheless, the offending household just flat out accused me of causing the trouble. My so called crime, reporting to the police department their and others boom car drivers on the avenues loud and obnoxious steroes.
After explaining to the officer the truth of the situation, he said "it's okay to try an do the neighborly thing, but next time just call" (the police department).
I had no wish to call the police department for every boom car driver on the avenue, but now they have left me no other option.
The entry below is from Monday's Athens Banner-Herald, a major newspaper in Georgia.
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Blaring stereo lands three in jail
Story updated at 10:20 PM on Saturday, May 10, 2008
An officer stopped a car on Hawthorne Avenue on Thursday night because music
was blaring from it and found fake cocaine, beer and a pellet gun in the
car, Athens-Clarke police said.
Officers searched the car because it appeared the driver handed something to
a back seat passenger as the officer approached, and the officer saw an open
beer in the car, according to police.
Officers found a small amount of marijuana and bags of a white powder, which
tested negative for cocaine, along with a digital scale, police said.
One of the passengers, Terrance Lamar Briscoe, had a pellet gun that
resembled a .45-caliber pistol stuck in his pants, police said.
The driver, 23-year-old Courtney Antwon Arnold, and his passengers, Briscoe,
18, and Justin Lamar Arnold, 18, were each charged with possession with
intent to distribute an imitation drug and possession of a drug-related
object, police said.
Briscoe was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, police said, and he
and Arnold charged were with underage possession of alcohol.
Arnold was cited for violating the county noise ordinance and for driving
with a broken headlight, police said.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on 051008
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Evelyn out.
