[Mpls] Insanity on the Fourth of July

[Barbara Lickness]

I too felt like I was living in Fallujah on July 4th. We thought the "tenants from hell" in the corner house had moved out. This was evidenced by the stock pile of broken down furniture and crap piled on the boulevard spilling into the street. Since, it didn't get placed out there until Friday, we now will be looking at that crap until Friday of this week if not longer. We thought about packing it into our van and unloading it onto the boulevard of the property owner who lives on Lake of the Isles Parkway but thought better of that as we would probably be the ones getting arrested. 
 
We found the tenants did not move out yet. They spent Friday through the fourth pounding the skies with Fireworks. Not the legal sparkler ones from K-Mart. Those just pop and whistle. The booming mortor kind you have to drive out of state to get. This is a family that supposedly got out of a homeless shelter two months ago and is on section 8. Yet, they have the financial wherewithall to drive out of state and stockpile an arsenal of fireworks. They were booming over my house until 3 in the morning on Monday night. Their display was flanked by the neighbors behind us who were matching their booms shot for shot. I couldn't tell you if there were guns being fired too. I am not that skilled at differentiating the sounds of gunfire from fireworks. They are both loud. Needless to say, I hope they have spent their supply for this year and next year can grace someone else with the show in another location. I guess the fact that I choose to continue living where I do proves I must be
 engaging in that "high risk behavior" the mayor was referring to. 
 
Barb Lickness
Whittier
Engaging in High Risk behavior by living here 


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