Thursday, January 05, 2006

life in the suburbs

So, we have these racist neighbors in san rafael, and it's very upsetting to them that our truck is parked on the street. Mind you, it's in front of our house. They've taken to calling the police if it, in their mind, has not been moved in three days.

Well, that was irritating, but it gets worse:

Lately, having been unsucessful in getting our truck to move from their neighborhood (and us with it I suppose) they've taken to calling in the complaint to the city, then removing the notice that it's been called in, in the hope that we'll get towed.

What really irritates me about this (aside from the NIMBYism run amok) is that I don't drive my truck because I take the bus to work, or I ride my bike. Now, isn't the whole point to not clog up the freeways? So I have a vehicle for the times when I might need one (like this saturn's day, when we'll be burning xmas trees at the beach), but why should I have to drive every day just because my neighbors want me to?

Luckily the San Rafael police have been surprisingly cool about this, having acknowledged that someone is messing with me, they've documented that it appears someone has been removing the notices. My point is that eventually I should be able to catch them, and hopefully have them arrested, having demonstrated a pattern of abuse.

I will rest easy the day I know they've ben made someone's bitch just down the street in San Quentin; then I'll have their car towed.

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