Reply #14: No, this has never happened before

[Heddi]

we live in a kind of rough neighborhood. It's working poor, blue-collar, alot of renters, single parents, gang activity to a certain degree. Everyone is generally pleasant, though--saying hi if they walk past you while you're gardening or whatever.

Never dealt with these kids before----this is the first house, and the first residential neighborhood we've ever lived in (since childhood, at least). We're usually city apartment dwellers...not dealing with kids too much.

Altho now that we live here, you can definitely tell when the last day of school was because the activity just got wratched up like 10,000 notches overnight!

The thing that really got me---and it really upset me--is there are alot of really little kids in this area. Young boys and girls that are outside playing all the time. I give their mom's and dad's credit that they (mom & dad) are always outside or on the porch when they'r eplaying, but no kid needs to hear that, or, God Forbid, be the target of that. Completely unnecessary.