I live in a good neigbhorhood except for...

[airborneranger]

The drug house literally across the street from me. I think the cops have been there about 6 times and arrested people at the house. On some weekends it looks like a scene from a History Channel episode about Mexican gangs.

This happened on Saturday night. Around 2300 there must have been 10-15 gang banger looking people in the front yard and the street making all kinds of noise. I did my duty as a good citizen and called the Sheriff's office with a noise complaint. They must have been super busy that night because after about 20 minutes the party escalated into a fight in the yard and into another about 10 minutes after that. All this time, there was screaming and cussing and bottles breaking. I called back to let them know that it was escalating. After the 2nd fight, the party broke-up and they all took off for who knows where - all the while screaming let's get out of here before the cops come. The cops did show up but the homeowners refused to open their door for them.

I didn't go outside to tell them to keep it down because that would have only caused an altercation in which I would have been greatly outnumber. Not outgunned (maybe) but certainly outnumbered. It really pisses me off that we have this one house on the block that causes these problems. I called the Sheriff's desk and not 911 because I didn't deem it an emergency - at least not until the fighting.

Do you think next time I should just call 911??

[claimbuster]

Yup! Next time it may even be worse.

[airborneranger]

Ya, that is what I was thinking. It was out of control when I was in Afghanistan. I guess one day the cops showed up when my wife and kids were outside and they had to hog tie one guy and drag him out of the house.

[opie011]

Is the house a rental? If so I'd be calling the owner and complaining to them about all the drugs and potential danger their tenants are causing to the neighborhood!! And yes call 911 next time that shit happens!!!

[trlcavscout]

We had some people move in down the street from my house in vegas like that. Its not hard to get rid of the chicken shits once the neighborhood is tired of them. We did everything legal I even called the cops on them and ID'd them in front of all them a couple times, the vegas cop told them a was a ccw holder and next time I would call 911 after it was done. A couple days later they moved. Just takes a little pressure.

[alxone]

Do you think next time I should just call 911??

short answer yes ish . when calling the cops on a neighbor make sure they dont pay you a visit at the same time . yes they will sometimes come to your house to let you know that they stoped by and talked to your neighbors . the best thing to do is ignore them (the gangsters ) , stay off there radar as much as possible and let the cops handle it . been down that road before and you really cant win a fight against knuckle heads .remember the law is on there side too and in some cases more them than yours .good luck .

[sniper7]

yes just call 911.

Apparently my neighborhood had a house like that a year or so before we built our house. Meth problems and druggies in and out, but they got evicted and the house sat empty for a couple years until recently and the neighbors haven't been a problem for us.

every neighborhood has them, it just depends on how vocal they get and how stupid they are.

[TFOGGER]

Someone could, say, accidentally fire a couple of rounds into the ground in their(own) back yard, and then you could call in "shots fired" to 911....jus' sayin'...

[Clint45]

short answer yes ish . when calling the cops on a neighbor make sure they dont pay you a visit at the same time . yes they will sometimes come to your house to let you know that they stoped by and talked to your neighbors .

While 20 Mexican gangbangers are standing on their front lawn staring and pointing at you.

You do not have a lot of legal options here. Arson is a non-option -- that is an extremely serious charge and you do not want to go there.

Make sure your doors and windows are always locked, and sandbag the wall facing their yard.

[claimbuster]

....and keep your firearms inside your house and dig them out only if someone is trying to break in otherwise, you could be the one going off to jail. Remember, you have a lot more to lose than those scum bags across the street.