Apartment Life #317

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 25 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 25 years here in a weekly blog post.  

I spotted another video camera in someone's window across the street. I think it's funny that I keep spotting more of them. I knew I wasn't the only one with one in my window. My new neighbor who just moved in next door to me has one in her living room window pointing towards her door.

Oh and these signs were put up all over our complex. We now have security patrolling here. I've seen them in the cars a few times but they never get out they just drive by. I never see them patrolling the grounds. I don't know if we're supposed to call the number if we want someone to come out for something or what. A new neighbor said his rent when he moved in is $1060. So I now know that our rent is increasing by about $125 next time we sign a new lease. 

The police were in the shopping center parking lot next door. I'm not sure which one of these stores was robbed but that's usually what happens when 3 police cars show up. 

As I was walking down the street with Falcor, I noticed some smoke further down the street where the homeless people make their camps 

I didn't see any fire but there was enough smoke to worry me so I called 911 and told them about the smoke. Then I walked home and waited to see if I could catch the fire truck driving by.

And I did. That sidewalk near the sound wall is where I was walking. But as you can see, I can't see where the smoke was coming from, from my bedroom window. It's too far down the street.

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The same neighbor who was taken by ambulance a couple of weeks ago was taken again this week. 

She was having breathing problems. That's the paramedics and the neighbor in the gurney walking past my window camera. 

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On Thursday morning around 6AM, my daughter had to call the police because one of the homeless guys was walking in and out of our courtyard and trying some of the door handles as he was holding a knife. My daughter works the graveyard shift so she was up early and saw him when she was sitting outside. She came inside and watched him on the video camera we have in the window. The police came, talked with some neighbors but I don't know if they couldn't find him or didn't have enough proof to take him because he was still here that morning. 

On Friday, the very next day my daughter was over at the store right next door when she spotted him again, this time rifling through someone's car in the 4-Kegs parking lot. So she called 4-Kegs as she video taped him and told them that he was going through someone's unlocked car and they came out. I don't know what happened, my daughter didn't stay. 

The high this week was 87F/30C

The low this week was 55F/12C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.