Wizard
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First Name: Angel
Favorite Pipe: Stanwell HCA Churchwarden Calabash Rustic, and Peterson Irish Harp with the sterling silver band and black and brown marble stem. And my 8 churchwardens Wizard pipes
Favorite Tobacco: Burley and Latakia blends.
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Post by Wizard on Sept 20, 2019 14:05:42 GMT -5
Just sitting in my pipe area and taking it all in. Now the police are there. My neighbor to the left and one 2 doors down. Lots of yelling and grunt pushing. I load another bowl, wait and watch. Now another neighbor from down on the end went to see what was happening. I
relit my bowl while my wife gave me a play by play watching from a window. Police walking going to both neighbors doors, talking it all out. I lite my bowl again and enjoy the show. 🧙🏼♂️
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Mac
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First Name: John
Favorite Pipe: Ken Barnes Canted Billiard
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Post by Mac on Sept 20, 2019 14:26:06 GMT -5
News at 11?
If no gunshots or ambulances, maybe it'll be only gossip in the neighborhood.
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Post by just ol ed on Sept 20, 2019 14:35:00 GMT -5
last nite, couple houses south of us, buncha teen ghetto type tangled a.holes with each other, both genders. Quite loud, f-bombs all over. Had a nice view from front porch finishing a latakia laden C&D daVinci in yard pipes. Pretty much broken up by the time police showed up. Otherwise, in strickly blue-collar neighborhood, all quiet xcept for some loud truck noise. End of excitement for awhile......hopefully (being a kingsize dirty ol man..wishing couple of the gals would put on a topless show...sigh..didn't happen)!
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
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Post by peteguy on Sept 20, 2019 15:13:27 GMT -5
My next door neighbors have had the cops there at least 3 times this year. This is the stuff you don't hear about on the news, just the final battle.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 20, 2019 15:30:44 GMT -5
Always entertaining until you hear the first gunshot...at that point I am usually behind something that will hopefully stop a .38 or 9mml. Anything bigger than that and I will be heading to the nearest ER...usually try to stay out of neighborhood squabbles as it usually is just trash talking...and any gunfire is probably from someones' stolen handgun. AR's and AKs are too far up the rung of respectability for this neighborhood...now down in my (former) home of Miami...they used to brandish fancier equipment...usually firing between cars as they race up US-1....nothing sweeter than hearing the rat-a-tat of Uzis or AKs in the evening twilight.
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Post by Stearmandriver on Sept 20, 2019 15:40:16 GMT -5
Adults behaving like children is always kinda cute but disappointing at the same time...
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Post by puffy on Sept 20, 2019 16:07:36 GMT -5
Life is so much fun.
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calabash
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Favorite Pipe: Baki meerschaum, 1972 Dunhill
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Post by calabash on Sept 20, 2019 16:18:09 GMT -5
I live in such a boring neighborhood.
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Post by mgtarheel on Sept 20, 2019 17:14:16 GMT -5
Sit back and enjoy the show.
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Post by Cramptholomew on Sept 20, 2019 17:29:51 GMT -5
I love drama when it doesn't involve me, and sometimes when it does.
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Post by Goldbrick on Sept 20, 2019 18:40:53 GMT -5
We've been in this peaceful neighborhood for so long I've almost forgotten what free, at home , live entertainment is like. At our old place cops came and went with some regularity . A mixed bag of hardworking, blue collared folks ,and low-life trash, "from nowhere and headed nowhere"...
We kept to ourselves mostly, but you can't miss it when the folks across the fence are cussin loud enough to wake the dead...only had one wife beating in seven years, and ,in all fairness, I don't know how the old boy held off as long as he did.
Once I went behind my garage to get some nice, dry oak for our woodstove, and there was a little four year old runt leaving a log of his own behind my wood pile...I walked him home , and demanded that his unconcerned mother get a plastic bag ,and follow me...
we sold the house the following summer.
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Post by Darin on Sept 20, 2019 18:53:17 GMT -5
Man, I hear ya' ... just this morning there were at least three roosters trying to out-crow each other! LOL
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 20, 2019 19:48:37 GMT -5
I live in such a boring neighborhood. Ditto. Isn't it great? |
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desolbones
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Favorite Pipe: Briar, Clay,Cob, Meer, Metal and Morta.
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Post by desolbones on Sept 20, 2019 20:20:54 GMT -5
Our place is backed up to 1400ac of Champions Paper Forestry, quiet neighborhood even when one of the folks here about let off a few rounds into their backstops, seems to work well as a reality check for the few (if any) in the area with larceny in the heart.
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Post by trailboss on Sept 20, 2019 23:11:13 GMT -5
I have lived in the same neighborhood since 2005, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word...And the skies are not cloudy all day. But I have witnessed plenty of what the OP is talking about...When I lived in Hollister California I had a home in what was considered "The Historic district"...mine and several other homes were well kept, but the ones that were not, were trash magnets...I typically support law enforcement, but the law seemed to favor the scumbags... at least they seemed sympathetic to them at my expense.
Where I live now, it is presumed that everyone owns guns, and the cops are cool with law abiding gun owners...I do not know most of my neighbors, but the old fart across the street, and both next to me are really great people. When i moved here before buying, I met the officer in charge of training the officers, and he told me that the patrols are organized so that an officer with an AR can be at any address within 5 minutes of a call...that clinched my decision after the California nonsense. ktar.com/story/2338236/gilbert-ranked-as-safest-city-in-arizona-sixth-safest-in-country/ |
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Wizard
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Posts: 443
First Name: Angel
Favorite Pipe: Stanwell HCA Churchwarden Calabash Rustic, and Peterson Irish Harp with the sterling silver band and black and brown marble stem. And my 8 churchwardens Wizard pipes
Favorite Tobacco: Burley and Latakia blends.
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Post by Wizard on Sept 20, 2019 23:28:12 GMT -5
No gun shots or blood, a disappointment☹️ Cops came and it was over after that. But it was good while it lasted cuz I have had trouble in the past with the same neighbor before. So now I feel vendicated
That he is a trouble maker👺lol 🧙🏼♂️
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chasingembers
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Favorite Pipe: My Growing J. Everett Collection, Fifteen Day Bruce Weaver Set, Meerschaums, Oguz Simsek Skulls
Favorite Tobacco: Black Frigate,Solani Silver Flake, Yenidje Highlander, Angler's Dream, Watch City Slices, Salty Dogs, Mephisto, Ennerdale Flake, Rich Dark Honeydew, 1792 Flake
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Post by chasingembers on Sept 21, 2019 3:06:02 GMT -5
I mow my front yard with a scythe and clean my shotguns on the front porch. My neighbors rarely make a peep.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 21, 2019 3:56:28 GMT -5
We never have anything like that where I live. About 12 years ago, the family across the road used to have the odd party which was noisy, but never any trouble... Until one of the family members got knocked up and the parties stopped. I'm glad nothing escalated, Wizard. Might not have been as fun to watch, but loss of life in these instances is never good, imo. |
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Winton
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Post by Winton on Sept 21, 2019 8:01:58 GMT -5
We live in a largely Hispanic part of town. We know a few words of Spanish. We are VERY familiar with Mariachi (sp?) music. Apparently, you can play this music on a tuba.
Now, a decade or more ago, we had a dirt bag family living across the street. We did not appreciate them raising pit bulls, that often got loose, near our small children. The screaming fights, regular visits from police, etc. I will spare you the details of their really rude behavior.
We enjoy our neighbors. The street is packed with cars at night and empty during the day. Thus we know that most people go to jobs during the day. Life is interesting and colorful.
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Post by Cramptholomew on Sept 21, 2019 8:08:11 GMT -5
We never have anything like that where I live. About 12 years ago, the family across the road used to have the odd party which was noisy, but never any trouble... Until one of the family members got knocked up and the parties stopped. I'm glad nothing escalated, Wizard. Might not have been as fun to watch, but loss of life in these instances is never good, imo. what does "knocked up" mean over there? Here, it means "got pregnant". I suspect it's more literal in your neck of the woods. Our spiders are still eensy weensy. |
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Post by toshtego on Sept 21, 2019 9:25:43 GMT -5
Mostly quiet in these parts as many of the families here have known each other since Old Zach Taylor was in the White House.
Back around 2012, one bad teenager and his criminal father started cruising up and down the road in front of another's house. First they shouted insults and then started brandishing guns. They were driving a big Cadillac from the 1970s. I guess they meant to collect a debt and were unsuccessful. The parents of the teenager inside the house had enough so they emerged, each with an AK47. Shots were fired from the Cadillac and returned from the house. I guess the car was shot up but only the teenager inside it was grazed. They sped off. The State Police were called and actually showed up, after declining the invite earlier before the shooting. No arrests were made. Later that week, the DA held a community meeting and decided he was in favor of citizens defending their homes. Again no charges filed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2019 9:28:35 GMT -5
Reminds me of my first apartment in north Atlanta. Typical 2 story, 8 apartments per building. My building had two perpendicular builds out my window. One was nominal hill. Anyway, someone was yelling and screaming and tearing up their apartment in the building next to my balcony. After what seemed like forever it stopped and I see a girl walking from that building to another building. 10 minutes later ambulance and police show up. Guess she was the object of aggression but would not press charges. She leaves in the ambulance. The police try to get the guy to come out of the apartment for what I suppose was a ploy to at least arrest him for public drunkeness. Didn't happen so the police left the scene.
Well 10 minutes later the drunk guy thought it was the guy up on the hill that called the police and goes up there with a baseball bat and starts beating on the guy's door. I can see from my vantage point the occupant calmly standing there in his living room holding a gun waiting for the guy to break down the door. Lucky for the drunk he gave up and went back to his apartment and trashed some more of his own stuff.
Good times.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Sept 21, 2019 9:35:44 GMT -5
 The only thing we have here is farm equipment roaring, irrigation pumps chugging, my neighbors donkey braying and the clay shooting range popping off, boring.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 21, 2019 9:58:29 GMT -5
Worst time I have had in apartments was some young men upstairs who played leapfrog all night, and some next door that were on the the verge of divorce."You better stop wearing my clothes!" "mememememe" "You've never been a wife to me, Violet!" "mememememe"
I was working the night shift so this happened every morning just as I got to sleep. She came knocking on my door after he left one morning looking for some company. Hell No!
When we first moved into our current home the neighbors on one side were the trashiest people I had ever met. Standing in the front yard drinking beer and telling filthy jokes in front of their dirty little kids loud enough for everyone on the street to hear. They moved after a year or so. Neighborhood is 80% Mexican, about half speak English but they are a step up from the anglos they replaced. We are all very friendly and happy it seems.
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Post by papipeguy on Sept 21, 2019 12:59:25 GMT -5
Cramp, I believe that "knocked-up" means arrested.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 21, 2019 13:27:11 GMT -5
We never have anything like that where I live. About 12 years ago, the family across the road used to have the odd party which was noisy, but never any trouble... Until one of the family members got knocked up and the parties stopped. I'm glad nothing escalated, Wizard. Might not have been as fun to watch, but loss of life in these instances is never good, imo. what does "knocked up" mean over there? Here, it means "got pregnant". I suspect it's more literal in your neck of the woods. Our spiders are still eensy weensy. It means the same over here. Once the occupant got pregnant the parties stopped as they had a little one that they didn't want woken up. |
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Post by papipeguy on Sept 21, 2019 13:29:10 GMT -5
I stand corrected
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Post by Cramptholomew on Sept 21, 2019 13:38:35 GMT -5
what does "knocked up" mean over there? Here, it means "got pregnant". I suspect it's more literal in your neck of the woods. Our spiders are still eensy weensy. It means the same over here. Once the occupant got pregnant the parties stopped as they had a little one that they didn't want woken up. huh! I thought that COULD be the case, but wanted clarification. The differences between U.S. slang and Irish/British slang are sometimes funny. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 21, 2019 13:40:00 GMT -5
It means the same over here. Once the occupant got pregnant the parties stopped as they had a little one that they didn't want woken up. huh! I thought that COULD be the case, but wanted clarification. The differences between U.S. slang and Irish/British slang are sometimes funny. yep. But I think it's more the case that you guys don't understand my colloquiums. I suppose I have American TV to thank for me being able to get you guys at lot easier. |
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Wizard
Junior Member
Posts: 443
First Name: Angel
Favorite Pipe: Stanwell HCA Churchwarden Calabash Rustic, and Peterson Irish Harp with the sterling silver band and black and brown marble stem. And my 8 churchwardens Wizard pipes
Favorite Tobacco: Burley and Latakia blends.
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Post by Wizard on Sept 21, 2019 23:34:52 GMT -5
We never have anything like that where I live. About 12 years ago, the family across the road used to have the odd party which was noisy, but never any trouble... Until one of the family members got knocked up and the parties stopped. I'm glad nothing escalated, Wizard. Might not have been as fun to watch, but loss of life in these instances is never good, imo. There was some pushing and shoving at first, but when the cops got there it cooled right down. Unfortunately no loss of life LL. ☹️Lol🧙🏼♂️ |
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The only thing we have here is farm equipment roaring, irrigation pumps chugging, my neighbors donkey braying and the clay shooting range popping off, boring. 
