Impish Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Yay us :001_huh::glare: We were pinned in our houses for hours yesterday...Diva was walking the dog, and ordered back in the house. Wolf and I went into the back yard over an hr later, and yelled at by an unseen male, "GET BACK IN THE HOUSE! GET BACK IN THE HOUSE!" We had no clue what was going on...so, I called the paper, b/c it never fails that the news knows more than ppl living in the area. I ended up being quoted in the article. http://www.edmontonsun.com/2012/01/29/cops-investigate-shooting There's still a cruiser in the pkging lot this am :001_huh: We've lived here almost 6 yrs now, its a first for something like this. I'm not interested in sticking around for the 'next'. If nothing else, it def solidifies our desire to get the heck out of here...And we're considered a 'good' neighbourhood in the area :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariannNOVA Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: THAT is scary -- I cannot remember where we lived and that happened, but it was only once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TammyinTN Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I detest when scary things like that happen right in our doorway. :grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer3141 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Imp, you're not trying to stick your mentally ill husband in a nursing home, are you??? :D:D:D:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Heck no, Jennifer. He does housework. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Police are STILL in my parking lot! And nobody bothered to tell us when it was safe to leave the house again...we basically had to wait til nobody yelled at us when we stepped out the door. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Nothing is worse than having violence in your own neighborhood. :sad: When I lived in the hillside neighborhood in Duluth, Minnesota, I once had a woman kick in my door to use the phone because one guy shot another to death in front of my house. Another time, a girl of about twelve was threatening all of us on a city bus with a switchblade. We moved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punchie Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 How scary! It's awful when violence is so close to home. When I was a kid, our neighbor across the street held his wife hostage w/a shot gun (don't know why). The police closed off our street. We had the SWAT team on the roof of our house. Everything ended alright when the wife managed to knock her husband out w/a frying pan and get out of the house. He was arrested. They moved. We moved shortly thereafter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammyla Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Wow.:grouphug: Police are STILL in my parking lot! And nobody bothered to tell us when it was safe to leave the house again...we basically had to wait til nobody yelled at us when we stepped out the door. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiguirre Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 How scary! Even nice neighborhoods can have occasional outbursts of violence. It's impossible to avoid completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuirkyKapers Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 :grouphug: I hope there are more mothers with four in your neighborhood since you wanted to remain anonymous. Sounds pretty scary too me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillian Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Something like this happened when we were on base....our duplex neighbors were having major major domestic violence issues and the guy had assaulted his wife and then took off somewhere in the neighborhood armed. We weren't allowed to leave. I was very pregnant and totally freaked out. DH was home thankfully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 :svengo: :grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Well, since they screwed it up (I'm a mother of 5) and there are other families w/4 in the area, I'm not too worried :lol: I want an acreage. Less ppl, less insanity, less violence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Well, since they screwed it up (I'm a mother of 5) and there are other families w/4 in the area, I'm not too worried :lol: I want an acreage. Less ppl, less insanity, less violence. I wondered about that when I read the linked article. I thought maybe I had miscounted or something. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Wait, I looked at your siggy again...now I'm confused! :001_huh::D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 I hs the 4 still at home. Eldest is in the Navy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chepyl Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Wait, I looked at your siggy again...now I'm confused! :001_huh::D Me, too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Me, too.... Look up ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I hs the 4 still at home. Eldest is in the Navy. Gotcha...I think I knew you had 5, but maybe I'm thinking about someone else...maybe I'm just really tired and not processing things well...new little one on the way has been really sapping my energy. Seriously, I'm taking 2-3 naps a day. I never sleep this much. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Gotcha...I think I knew you had 5, but maybe I'm thinking about someone else...maybe I'm just really tired and not processing things well...new little one on the way has been really sapping my energy. Seriously, I'm taking 2-3 naps a day. I never sleep this much. :001_huh: I was that way w/Boo. Still am, napping in the afternoon most days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Things like that are really scary when you are an adult with children. I was caught in a scary situation as a child which I found humorous because I didn't know enough to be scared. When I was in 5th or 6th grade, I left our apartment to walk to school when a man burst through the fence in the back of the complex. At the same time, several police cars skidded to a stop in front of the complex and drew their weapons on him. I was in the middle. They yelled at me to get back into the house and wouldn't let me go to school for a few hours. The man turned out to be a drug dealer who supplied our neighbor who supplied my parents. He ratted out the neighbor, and when she got home she was searched, arrested, and had her infant taken by CPS for a few months. My parents were a wreck all morning but were never given up. When I finally got to school, I loved telling the school that "the cops wouldn't let me come to school this morning." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettyandbob Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 This happened to my family. My dh and I were in the kitchen one Sunday and dh says "there's something I've never seen before" "there's a police sharp shooter on the median in front of our house" and finally he said "I don't think we are going to church today" The sharp shooter was pointed at another house, but it was hard to tell which one. Turned out the man in the house at the other end of our townhouse row had completed lost it and decided to hold a gun to his wife's head. He held the rest of the family hostage most of the night (grandma, 4 kids under 7, and a family friend who was there for a brief stay). By the time we were up everyone except the wife had gotten out of the house. From our windows throughout the morning we got to see regular uniform police, SWAT, and sharp shooters. What we didn't see is 2 of those giant mobile command centers set up in our neighborhood. The police had contacted anyone who had their lights in the night to shut them off. In the morning they chased all the people with pets back in their houses. I think we were the last family to know. After they apprehended the guy the police were around for a while. That was 10 years ago. The people who moved in after the guy went to jail and woman sold the house are very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brendag Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 We had only been in our very quiet, really nice neighborhood for a few months when the dad of 2 adult drug dealer sons moved in across the street. About 3 weeks after they moved in, I had SWAT in my backyard telling me to keep myself and my kids (1 year old twins) down near the back of the house because of a hostage situation. They would not come out of the house for like 2 hours! Bull horns and all. My nerves were shot. They have been foreclosed on and have been served so will be out soon thank goodness! I was a very tired mom worrying about possible stray bullets. That's when I told my husband the next time we move, I won't settle for anything less than 20 acres! Of course if that happens, that beautiful country house down the road will be foreclosed on and bought out by druggies and turned into a meth lab. That would be my luck! :glare: I hope things go better for you and no more scary drama in your neighborhood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer3141 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Imp, you're FAMOUS!! You are now, "The mother of four who did not want her name published." :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Imp, you're FAMOUS!! You are now, "The mother of four who did not want her name published." :lol: *snort* 'cept, as I've said, I'm the mother of five. Just 4 still at home and hsing :lol: Correcting that would absolutely id me though. Just not that many mom o'5s in this area :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 When there was a drive-by shooting years ago just kittycorner across the street (we can see the house from ours) my neighbor and I made all the kids go play in the basement. We stood guard - were able to tell a police woman that no one unknown had run or driven down our street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Things like that happened a couple times when we still lived in the city. Once was when we were walking back from getting slurpees and were told to run home and lock the doors. THe police were doing a raid 2 doors down from us. We had several times had cops in the backyard and the police 'copter shining it's crazy bright light in my yard and bedroom window. The way my yards/gates were many used it as a walkway from the alley/open field to the street I lived on including bad guys trying to out run police. So glad to be out of that city. How scary for you guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 How scary! It's awful when violence is so close to home. When I was a kid, our neighbor across the street held his wife hostage w/a shot gun (don't know why). The police closed off our street. We had the SWAT team on the roof of our house. Everything ended alright when the wife managed to knock her husband out w/a frying pan and get out of the house. He was arrested. They moved. We moved shortly thereafter. You know I should not laugh but this description made me think of tangled and honestly I can not help but laugh everytime she hits the guy with the frying pan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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