KK and M

**911** Ramblings
Let me share with you my Thursday night.

Mayson is in bed asleep. I walk outside to speak/hang with my neighbors/friends. One neighbor mentions that our new (ghetto, young, kind of scary) neighbors just paid a homeless man $$ to distribute their HUGE pile of trash (so big the trash people refused to take it) to OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES. Well, needless to say I was livid. I was all snapping my fingers back and forth in front of my face and like "no, they din it."

After looking up the number for the STREETS department and finding out that they close at 5pm and it's now 7:30pm I look up Philadelphia's non emergency phone number. Well, low and behold it's 9-1-1. Interesting. Then I grappled for a few minutes with myself, do I really want to call 911 to complain about garbage? I am super pissed that these people have lived here for two freakin' days and they are already seriously annoying me AND distributing their trash to their neighbors because their to freakin' lazy to call Citizens Alliance, who will come and pick up their trash for FREE. (They were given the phone number by my neighbor.)

So at the end of my grappling, I call. This is how the convo went:
"911 please state your emergency."
"It's a non-emergency."
"Tell me the problem."
"My neighbor just paid a homeless man to take his trash and distribute it around the neighborhood."
"The Police do not pick up trash maam."
"Yes, I'm aware of this."
"What do you want done?"
"I want a police officer to come here."
"I'll send one out, maam."
"Thanks"

About 20 minutes later a popo rides up. I explain the situation and he so helpfully explains that he can't do anything about it because I'm just a witness, not a complaintant. I said, I'm complaining aren't I? Doesn't that make me a complaintant?
He states that the trash would have to be placed on my property in order for the police to anything about it. I stated, "Well, that sucks."

Then he tells me that if I go to the other people's houses and tell them to call the police, then he can do something about it. Okay, thanks for coming officer.

Now, I'm double pissed, because apparently illegal dumping isn't illegal and littering is also a-okay.

I look down the street and the people at one of the houses where the trash was placed were out looking at the trash. Marge and I walk down (yes, someone is in my house listening for the baby, umm, non-baby, I mean) to them and tell them to call the popo.

They do, two cop cars come right away. They write down the complaintants complaints and then go to the house where the trash originated from. The mom answers the door, she calls her son and tells him what's going on. He admits that he paid a man to take the trash away, but the man said that he had a pick up on the corner and did not know that the guy was just going to drag his trash to other people's houses. Okay, I can understand that. The police call citizens alliance and tell them to pick up the trash first thing Friday morning.

After that the cop rolls down to where I'm sitting and he tells me what happened. The he gets this smile on his face and says, "You know, I gotta tell you something. You are a really great neighbor. You watch out and that's how you get things done. I wish we had more people like you in this city. You make me work more, but you are a really great neighbor."

It was hilarious. I apologized for making him do his job and told him thanks for taking care of it.

Of course, when Kevin came home from work at 11:15pm he just rolled his eyes and said............
(KEVIN QUOTE:)
"You have to stop calling 911, you're like the boy who cried wolf."