1) When I lived in SF and saw a man standing in the window directly across the street from me with binoculars looking into my apt. Got the advice of “close your blinds.” Apparently, you can be a peeping tom if you’re in your own house. Nice, eh?

2) 3 times at current apt for noise from the bars a quarter of a mile away – again, absolutely nothing done about it. I’ve talked to other neighbors and they’ve called multiple times as well, all with the same result – thank God for 2:00 a.m. bar closing time.

3) Years ago, I rented a condo with another girl. The woman who lived downstairs died and her complete white trash thieving daughter moved in (stole an angora sweater from me). She left her toddler in the car one hot summer day with the windows up. At least three different cop cars showed up and carted her ass away, as the kid was still in the car when they got there. She was known by the cops because she used to steal diapers from the local Target.

4) Not me, but my nephew called the cops one day last year about a drunk driver. He followed the driver at a safe distance monitoring the driver’s movements until the cops caught up.

It turned out some big, old fuse attached to our dryer had started a melt-down which caused the bakelite on it to melt. Thus the smell. The firemen felt all along the walls to make sure nothing was on fire within them.
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The second time was when we came along a car that had left the road, smashed down a metal fence and travelled some 100′ into a field. We pulled over and someone came running up asking if anyone knew CPR. I was ‘it’ and had to climb what was left of the fence with trembling legs not knowing what I was going to see. I got there and the woman driver was clearly still breathing but had a probable concussion. All I had to do was make sure she stayed there (she kept trying to leave the scene) until the emergency vehicles arrived.

Son dialed 911 as an infant. I hung it up hoping it hadn’t gone through yet. Cop showed up 2 minutes later. Oh the humiliation… especially when your hubby is a cop. I’m one of ‘those’ moms now.