I have some strange neighbors

[millennium_bard]

One neighbor, a semi-sane individual decided to fly an American flag to honor his recently deceased father. His father was a retired veteran of the US Navy and had passed away just a couple of days ago.
Another neighbor, one whom sanity has forsaken long ago decided that the flag was a direct insult to him and his culture. He and a couple dozen relatives spent most of today outside the house of my semi-sane neighbor screaming curses and threats.
The police came a total of 4 times to disperse the group of frothing-at-the-mouth protesters but made only one arrest.
After a couple of hours after it started to rain, the sanity-challenged neighbor and his family left but not before one of them went up to the other neighbors house and tore down the flag.
Tomorrow should be interesting around here.

 

[Katyusha]

This is THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, he was flying OUR flag, what is wrong with flying our own flag here? That just sorely disappoints me. *shaking head sadly*

 

[DesertPirate]

Makes me remember the sign I saw in NM last week:
No Tresspassing, survivors will be prosecuted!

Try to tear down my flag!

 

[human_male]

They wouldn't be muslims would they?

I didn't think Americans put up with crap like that. Why didn't a bunch of flag waving, plaid shirt wearing construction worker types go over and thump the crap out of them?

 

[millennium_bard]

The ironic part is that the semi-sane neighbor's ancestors were from Iran. third generation American now and definitely not a Muslim, and he's married to a cute German gal.

The ones who were having the hissy fit are all Hispanic. And I'd wager that only maybe one or two are in the US legally.

The neighborhood I live in is about 85% Hispanic and about 12 % Native American. Most of my neighbors are pretty decent folks who just want to live their lives, work hard and be left alone.

BTW, I refer to my neighbor as being Semi-Sane only because he does such oddball things such as going to a rodeo and climbing on top of 2000 pounds of pissed off bull. Other than that, he's a pretty good neighbor.

The other clown is the type of jerk who plays music loud enough to make my windows vibrate at weird o'clock in the morning and regularly accuses every man in the neighborhood of trying to seduce his wife. His wife looks like a cross between Ernest Borgnine and Roseanne Barr.

 

[amicus]

Sounds like a storyline to me...I am sure if we put our heads together we can think of something kinky?

chuckles....

shut up amicus...go back to editing....(yes, sir, post haste)

 

[millennium_bard]

Sounds like a storyline to me...I am sure if we put our heads together we can think of something kinky?

chuckles....

shut up amicus...go back to editing....(yes, sir, post haste)

I wish it was just a storyline.
Sheesh.
Joe (my semi-sane neighbor) and his wife were just over a few minutes ago. If anything he was more amused at the nutjob's antics than really pissed off.
If I know Joe, he has something planned that I am probably better off not knowing about. Joe is an avid reader of George Hayduke.

 

[DeeZire]

Welcome to the future, when Hispanics will be in the majority in this country. Funny thing is, it used to actually be their country, or at least part of it was.

 

[amicus]

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QUOTE=DeeZire;27013543]Welcome to the future, when Hispanics will be in the majority in this country. Funny thing is, it used to actually be their country, or at least part of it was.

[/QUOTE]

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I read this, cuz it popped up as a thread I am subscribed to and left with a mild 'harumph!' As I am wont to do when things displease me.

DeeZire, I wonder if you have traveled Mexico by any chance? And I mean outside the posh resorts for Gringo's and even to Mexico City, one of the largest cities on earth.

I wonder would you know much about Central American Nations, third world nations in poverty and famine, as is much of Mexico.

I was never impressed by Spain and I traveled there and I was never impressed by Spanish History and that they raped and pillaged much of North and South America, infecting it with their particular brand of virulent Catholicism and totalitarianism. Aside from Guernica, thanx to Pablo, at least Spain has a mention in 20th century history, otherwise, nil, except for the running of the bulls.

Millions of Latin Americans see the United States as that shining city on the hill that offers promise of a better life. They don't want to retake California and the southwestern US, they simply want to work and feed their families back home.

Regardless of the activist groups, there are always such groups, for every cause under the sun, most would be happy if Mexico and other central American nations could offer opportunities for them to return.

I don't know what you had in mind with your brief comment and I most likely read it all wrong, as I am oft accused of doing, but still, it rubbed me the wrong way, thus, this.

My personal opinion is that the United States should adjust its borders to include all land area between the North Pole and the Panama Canal and Americanize the entire kit and kaboodle.

But then, I always was a dreamer.



Amicus...

 

[emap]

Ami your a fruitloop, there is no way the US could handle taking all of that extra land and new citizens, country barely works as it is.

So I am curious to know what your neighbor does next, do please let us know this probably is going to get downright interesting over the summer. Do please keep us informed.

 

[human_male]

The ironic part is that the semi-sane neighbor's ancestors were from Iran. third generation American now and definitely not a Muslim, and he's married to a cute German gal.

The ones who were having the hissy fit are all Hispanic. And I'd wager that only maybe one or two are in the US legally.

The neighborhood I live in is about 85% Hispanic and about 12 % Native American. Most of my neighbors are pretty decent folks who just want to live their lives, work hard and be left alone.

BTW, I refer to my neighbor as being Semi-Sane only because he does such oddball things such as going to a rodeo and climbing on top of 2000 pounds of pissed off bull. Other than that, he's a pretty good neighbor.

The other clown is the type of jerk who plays music loud enough to make my windows vibrate at weird o'clock in the morning and regularly accuses every man in the neighborhood of trying to seduce his wife. His wife looks like a cross between Ernest Borgnine and Roseanne Barr.

I wonder what could be up with them. I shouldn't have assumed they were muslims. I just jumped to conclusions when you said they were insane.

I had a crazy neighbour too, when I was a lad and living in California. She was a single mum who got so crazy she had the kid taken away from her, started slashing the tyres of everyone else in the apartment building, tried to set the place on fire, attacked my dad with a broom, and told the land lord we were spying on her through her tv. They finally managed to get her kicked out after about a year (you've got to love the legal system over there). She came back once or twice to raise a bit of hell. Then some time later we learned she'd been beaten to death. Apparently her new neighbours were not as peaceable as us.

Now we've just got a bunch of semi-human, noisy little kids next door. Something's definately fucking wrong with them. I saw the little crosseyed boy one day apparently having some kind of Of Wolf and Man moment. He was just staning in the yard, waving a stick over his head and going "Aaaahhhhh! Ahhhh! Ahhhhhhh!!!!"

 

[Guest]

I wonder what could be up with them. I shouldn't have assumed they were muslims. I just jumped to conclusions when you said they were insane.

I had a crazy neighbour too, when I was a lad and living in California. She was a single mum who got so crazy she had the kid taken away from her, started slashing the tyres of everyone else in the apartment building, tried to set the place on fire, attacked my dad with a broom, and told the land lord we were spying on her through her tv. They finally managed to get her kicked out after about a year (you've got to love the legal system over there). She came back once or twice to raise a bit of hell. Then some time later we learned she'd been beaten to death. Apparently her new neighbours were not as peaceable as us.

Now we've just got a bunch of semi-human, noisy little kids next door. Something's definately fucking wrong with them. I saw the little crosseyed boy one day apparently having some kind of Of Wolf and Man moment. He was just staning in the yard, waving a stick over his head and going "Aaaahhhhh! Ahhhh! Ahhhhhhh!!!!"

That sounds like a normal kid to me.

(Says a mom of a young son who loves to wave sticks over his head, especially when playing pirate or Star Wars or Mega Man or just because.)

 

[voluptuary_manque]

That sounds like a normal kid to me.

(Says a mom of a young son who loves to wave sticks over his head, especially when playing pirate or Star Wars or Mega Man or just because.)

Sure does, speaking as one who also had a son who did that and did it himself as a lad . . . a loooooooooooooong time ago.

 

[human_male]

That sounds like a normal kid to me.

(Says a mom of a young son who loves to wave sticks over his head, especially when playing pirate or Star Wars or Mega Man or just because.)

Really? Well they're annoying little fuckers anyway. What gets me is there's always been noisy little kids over there. Different families, different sets of them over the years but always noisy, screaming little monsters and usally a noisy asshole of a dad. There's usually more in the house at the front too. We once had a hot woman who liked to get undressed with the lights on, standing right in the window that overlooks the front of our place... she moved out after a couple of months. We had a couple of teenage girls who had a crush on me... they're gone. But the hoards of screaming little animals apparently will be here forever.

But at least they don't have a dog.

 

[cloudy]

Really? Well they're annoying little fuckers anyway. What gets me is there's always been noisy little kids over there. Different families, different sets of them over the years but always noisy, screaming little monsters and usally a noisy asshole of a dad. There's usually more in the house at the front too. We once had a hot woman who liked to get undressed with the lights on, standing right in the window that overlooks the front of our place... she moved out after a couple of months. We had a couple of teenage girls who had a crush on me... they're gone. But the hoards of screaming little animals apparently will be here forever.

But at least they don't have a dog.

Such love for children. It does my heart good.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Such love for children. It does my heart good.

That's okay, he was one once himself. He ran aimlessly and screamed for no reason and drove his young-adult neighbors batty... It all comes around. As I've reminded my own young-adult kids recently.

 

[oggbashan]

I'm on a committee (one of many I'm on) that brings the community together to discuss their concerns with the local Police.

Sometimes my fellow committee members make me despair. They seem to think that today's kids are far worse than previous generations.

A few minutes perusal of the files of our local newspaper would show them that the children of the 1980s, the 1960s, the 1930s, and even the 1890s were just as adventurous and caused as much nuisance.

They've forgotten that they were kids once and what they, or their contemporaries, did.

Og

 

[McKenna]

We once flew a Dutch flag in our yard on Queen's day. (We live in America; I am American, my husband is Dutch.) I think everyone thought it was a French flag. (This just after the boycott of "Freedom fries.") I remember questioning my move back to the States that day. We certainly learned who our redneck and/or uneducated neighbors were that day.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And the mothers curse works...

"I hope you have two exactly like you when you grow up!"

 

[Liar]

Another neighbor, one whom sanity has forsaken long ago decided that the flag was a direct insult to him and his culture.

The morons of this world never cease to amaze me.

This reminds me of when my high school banned the flag.

Yep. This was in the mid-90's in Sweden, and the swedish flag had been used a lot recently as a symbol by fringe neo-nazis and rabid anti-immigration groups. So the school board decided that students were not allowed to wear clothes, pins, caps, whatever with the flag on, because they were afraid it would upset the 25% of immigrant kids the school had.

Of course, the immigrant kids saw it for what it was, PC chickenshit hogwash. Why the fuck should they let nazi assholes hog the colors of their new home land? The ban started on a friday. The next monday, every single kid of non-swedish descent came to school wearing swedish flag t-shirts, bandanas, face-paint, pins, what-have-you. On tuesday, the ban was called off.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I'm on a committee (one of many I'm on) that brings the community together to discuss their concerns with the local Police.

Sometimes my fellow committee members make me despair. They seem to think that today's kids are far worse than previous generations.

A few minutes perusal of the files of our local newspaper would show them that the children of the 1980s, the 1960s, the 1930s, and even the 1890s were just as adventurous and caused as much nuisance.

They've forgotten that they were kids once and what they, or their contemporaries, did.

Og

It gets really bad when teachers, of all people, expect their students to behave better than they themselves did at the same age. I've had kids get discipline tickets for jumping in piles of leaves, catching pigeon with their bare hands . . . you wouldn't believe the stupid horseshit some decrepit (inna brain) adults try to pull off.

 

[human_male]

Such love for children. It does my heart good.

It's just these particular ones, not kids in general. You probably know of some that you think are absolute little horrors.

These ones are different. They're not normal.

 

[Guest]

These ones are different. They're not normal.

Actually, I never said anything about how they weren't annoying, just how they were acting like normal kids.

'Cause normal kids can be pretty damn annoying at times.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Actually, I never said anything about how they weren't annoying, just how they were acting like normal kids.

'Cause normal kids can be pretty damn annoying at times.

Amen, shout it out sistah! You da word!

 

[human_male]

Actually, I never said anything about how they weren't annoying, just how they were acting like normal kids.

'Cause normal kids can be pretty damn annoying at times.

I know, and I'm sure I was. In fact I still am come to think of it. But you should see these ones for yourself. They're... scary.