So for those who came to our Halloween party on Saturday night and sat as we were buzzed by helicopters, we probably should have been in the house. Remember when I joked that if someone came in our back gate, it was probably a bad sign? Yeah, that joke was probably in bad taste.

One of the landlords in our neighborhood rents 4 properties out as sort of halfway houses. This particular home houses a woman we know is a prostitute and who has been seen smoking crack by many neighbors. While we were partying a fight broke out at the duplex and one man was shot. The scary thing is that a stray bullet went into the next door neighbor’s house and ricocheted around their bedroom. Thankfully no one was in it at the time. But the neighbors have kids, and this has mobilized our neighborhood even more to get rid of this sort of element. I think we all value the fact that we’ve got this great neighborhood where people of all economic classes are living together. We have apartments, condos, 4-plexes, duplexes, small and large single family homes in our neighborhood. As scary as this was, it’s really nice to see the neighborhood rallying around getting rid of this criminal element.

But we probably need to start going inside when the helicopters are buzzing the house.

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Comments

Tara

2008-11-06T22:25:10.000Z

Next time I’m there and hear helicopters around, I’m going outside. That bullet went into a bedroom not the backyard. ;)

Tim (http://www.loadedguntheory.com/blog/director/listblog/tim.html)

2008-11-06T22:30:13.000Z

Yeah, but the helicopter was trying to find the guy with the gun.

Ashley

2008-11-07T02:29:29.000Z

I feel ya. A few months ago, I stood on our deck as a helicopter buzzed our tree canopy, I realized my stupidity and went inside and locked the doors. But not before standing out there a few minutes with a baby in arms. Today as I drove to work I heard the report about the northeast austin swat standoff, the AK47, etc. Now, that was quite a few miles south of us but still close enough to make me wonder if the guys would run and seek shelter in any of the greenbelts along Cameron road which eventually come close to our hood.

Anonymous (http://katiekatworld.blogspot.com)

2008-11-07T02:50:43.000Z

Zoinks. Do you think we should hunker down when the military helicopters are buzzing our neighborhood? =) I’m glad to hear that your neighbors are behind making it safe for everyone.

Kate (http://katiekatworld.blogspot.com)

2008-11-07T02:51:15.000Z

That last comment was me.