Neighbor smoking weed in public - What to do?

[CapLock]

I wish we had drunks or stoners here on my street. I've got twèekers. Anyone wanna trade? The kinds of twèekers that recycle garbage so there are always trucks trailers full of shit parked on or in the fuckin road. Cops here all the time. Feeling better about where you live yet?

I sleep with a 12 GA under my bed, cause next door lives a meth head. I like to sing that to myself when they are out in numbers lol.

[cmailliard]

I would call the cops, but I have a good relationship with a few PoPo's in my area. If my daughter had to put up with it even weekly or monthly, it is still too much. If they found out it was me, fine. If they tried something at my house, fine, I have cameras.

Personally I hate it. I hate the smell, I hate jackasses when high. I hate jackasses when drunk. I hate jackasses.

We have the Neighborhood website up here (facebook for a neighborhood). People bitch about stupid shit all day long on there (throwing ice in the street to melt is a problem apparently!). It wouldn't take long for the public shaming to begin here.

[sniper7]

The obvious answer is steal the car at night, pick up a bunch of heroin and Meth and cocaine, insert it throughout the car in various hiding spots, return it in time for them not to notice and then call the cops reporting that drug abusing little bastard!

or just realize it's weed, it's legal, it's does stink but soon enough he will hopefully get a job or his own place and smoke there.

[sampson]

Chill out man.. you are harshin my buzz..

Jk. Dont call the cops. Just a word or two should do the trick.

[Great-Kazoo]

Do nothing is not an option. There are kids walking by this crap constantly. I am not putting up with this and I refuse to mind my own business and let these assholes take over the street and prevent kids from playing. Maybe I should set up a shooting range out front then, you know since guns are legal and all. I can overlook the small if they can overlook the sound.

I do see them drive away from time to time after stinking up the hood. I am thinking the cops can deal with it for now and see where that goes. I know other neighbors on the street are noticing this too so perhaps we tag team this thing.

Do you feel the same way with people in your area having a few beers out front or while talking with each other ? Last thing i'd want is a bunch of drunks out front getting loud, throwing their empties in the street. Thinking they're tough guys when you ask them to take it in their yard.


Go talk with the owners, explain (as mentioned) there's a few people on the block who would call the cops, rather then talk with them.

It's weed, it's legal. Your hands are tied. Could be worse, could be a meth lab / tweekers, bunch of redneck drunks, who never clean their yard . Leaving their shit all over your lawn.

[XC700116]

Yep, a mild odor is absolutely the same as a lethal projectile in a neighborhood. I know you were kidding but your exaggeration is more than ridiculous. And yes, doing nothing is an option. It's always an option. Whether it's a good option or not depends on the situation. If you HAVE to say something I would stay along the lines of what Gilpin said. That is unless you like your home insurance premiums increasing all the time from all of the claims you will need to file because of the vandalization.

It's pot, it's not an ISIS sleeper cell. Have a Coke and a smile and chill out.

Yeah well a 2500 lb car driven by someone stoned out of there goard isn't exactly a safe thing to be rolling through the neighborhood either and that isn't legal.

That's where my line in the sand would be, if he's firing up while or immediately before driving, ID call the cops. Just the same as if he was drinking.

Outside of that, ID mind my own damn business.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I always preferred social means to combat social issues. Get pictures of him toking behind the wheel, maybe even a picture of him driving off if you can get it close enough to the time you have a pciture of him smoking. If you don't have a close-up showing it's a blunt, just show him in the act of smoking and give a copy to his parents expressing concern that he's smoking cigarettes while underage (because you know, tobacco is evil and MJ is okay) ...

If you DO have a close-up showing it's not a cigarette, then provide the picture of the MJ and him driving off soon after and express concern that he's driving around the neighborhood while impaired. If you wanted to be a real dick, create a throwaway Google account and upload the pictures to Google Earth with a title like "Toking and driving".

As far as the posters say "mind your own damn business", it IS the OP's business if the kid is driving impaired. My guess is he's smoking it in the car because he doesn't want the parents to know -- they may not know what the smell is (I still can't ID marijuana smoke even when someone points it out to me) -- but the legal and safety issue here is if the kid is driving while under the influence. The smell permeating the street is in the same ballpark as someone complaining about the smells from my grill or smoker.

[Dave_L]

Do you have the "NextDoor" app? It's an app that allows people in your neighborhood to have a bulletin board in essence. You might try that and post a "public concern". See if others share in your dismay and ask that they try to keep it a little more private. In my area, there was a topic recently started about kids throwing rocks at fences/cars. The mother chimed in and said she talked to her kid and he admitted to throwing the rocks but not purposely at cars (who knows as kids will be kids but he owned up to it). The mother said she addressed it and appreciated it being brought to her attention.

This may not change anything but it will allow you to politely ask if others share your concern and maybe create a little public pressure to have the parents correct it. I assume parents are around if teens are in an upscale area. I doubt the kids own the home. Calling the cops on something like this seems excessive and could create some bad mojo in the area. Weed is legal but I wish people would be a little more respectful about it. Sit in your garage and do it?

[Monky]

If he's smoking in his car, the consumption is not in public. Cops won't give a shit... Ask me how I know. I have pot head neighbors. I talked to them and they stopped doing it on their porch... Nothing has happened to my house and it's been two years.


Sent by a free-range electronic weasel, with no sense of personal space.

[Wulf202]

Dui report him if he's driving stoned. Waste of time with anything else.