Suspicious Minds and Ears

No never called anything in up to now i don't live on a praticularily good estate so i'd be calling something in every day. Had the police at the door couple of days ago looking for someone who lives on the next street. My mum often tells me there have been muggings or shootings up the road from my street and i haven't seen or heard anything. We got broke into i reported that but thats about it. I think i'd report gunshots if i actually heard them though.

I called about suspicious eyeballs once! Long ago, before we lived in gated communities, we were renting a nice little house in the suburbs of a university town and one night I just got an uncontrollable urge to get out of bed and I got up in the dark and walked over to our bedroom window and peeked between the shades. I was not wearing my eyeglasses, so I put my face right up next to the window to look out and was startled to find my eyes exactly lined up with another pair of eye belonging to someone on the outside, looking in. We stared each other down for a few seconds until he panicked and ran, which was when I called the cops and made a report.

That must have been scary for you! Luckily, I never had to call the police. Ours is a more or less peaceful neighborhood but you never know. The increasing number of terrorist absconding and hiding in the most drabbest of places. It's really scary. Everyday the media flashes some new faces to be careful of. Thanks.

I have never had to call the police for that reason but just yesterday I had to call to let them know there was two Horses walking up the road,I live out in the country but the road gets very busy at that time of day from people coming home from work,I looked outside because I heard all kinds of squilling and seen two very big horses and a very upset young lady that almost hit them. You have a great night.

Since I'm home pretty much 24/7 I usually know whats going on in my neighborhood. I don't go out of my way to be nosey, but I do see every single car or person who passes by my very quiet little street. I have a time or two contacted the police when necessary. Once was when a neighbors pitbulls were out (AGAIN) terrorizing the neighborhood. Another time was when some neighbors were fighting so loudly outside I was afraid someone would be hurt. My little complex also has security during tourist seasons so I report if I see something happen during that time of the year. And, it may be silly but I'm rarely afraid of such things. One night when up late I saw the guy well known in our area for local break ins. Not hard to spot him since he rides his bike, dresses all in black and is only out around midnight prowling around. So, since I saw him, I went out with my german shepherd to confront him. LOL One look at the growling dog and he left. I haven't seen him in this area since.

We live in a rural area in a small community and the local law enforcement is scarce. We have had several "town metings" about this problem. As of now it is a very peaceful neighborhood but as people continue to move in all citizens are becoming quite concerned bcasue it has taken our sheriff's dep't. as much as 2 hours to get to our homes when things are reported. Yes you read it right 2 hours and that's being generous with them. It is a small community with a lot of concerned citizens. There was a man that showed up at my door about a year ago wanting to use the phone. He was obviously very intoxicated so I made him stand on the porch and took the cordless phone to him and on my way called 911 because I was home alone and he scared the jellybeans out of me. I took him the phone (his car was supposedly broke down) and then had to continue to stand there and talk to him for get ready for this.......1 hour and 15 minutes before they ever showed up. You ever trid to drum up conversation with an intoxicated man for that long? LOL Then when I complained to the officer he told me I should have just gone back in the house. Yeah right! And left him outside my windows to do whatever and not be able to see him! Whatever! The ending result was when the sheriff got there he couldn't remember where his car was and yada yada yada so they took him to jail. And he was so drunk he thanked me for calling him a ride when they cuffed him! LOL

[i]Hi Anne, Ohh..if ever we will same thing, we will report it right away! But, so far, I haven't experienced that in our area! I remember when I was in College, we were all frightened because a couple was quarreling and they were hitting with each other, good thing that their siblings came over to stop them![/i]

Two months ago, my husband called 911 because he smelled smoke coming in through our windows and when he went outside he discovered that the neighbor's house was on fire. Someelse had called right before him and the fire fighters were on their way. It was probably around 9:00pm. When I got home a few hours later, there were still three firetrucks there (another neighbor told me later that orginially there were seven), cops were there, and the roads blocked off. I had to park across the street because there was a fire truck across our driveway. Another time, I was going to call, because their were youths out after 1:00am (way past curfew) and looking like they were up to no good, but I couldn't find the non emergency number. I think they knew what I was up too because they left not long after I got in the house.

You bet I report suspicious sounds or behavior in the neighborhood. I would want my neighbors to do the same thing if they heard something near my home.

When I lived in FL, I called the police once because there was a huge group of teenagers outside. One of them was lying flat on the ground and the rest were standing around looking. I really thought something had happened and did not have the nerve to go see with so many people out there. (Yes I was an adult, but still young enough at the time to forget that on occasion. I was also living either alone or with a female roommate my age). So I called the police, only to find out a few minutes later that they were just all fooling around and no one was hurt. OOps! Since then, I try to be a little more careful about doing that.

I called a long time ago, due to hearing gunshots and a woman screamed, it scared me big time. It was a 911 call and I was told that others have reported it too. I was afraid for the woman. I do remember sirens tho but it seems all was well.

Hi Anne, That doesn't sound to good. And you never did find out what happened. That's not very comforting. Well in my neighborhood we hear all kinds of things and there is a possiblity that it could be anything at any time. There are constantly sirens going through my neighborhood. I can't tell you how many times I have been wakened up by fire engines and sometimes they stop in front of my building which is really scary. We have the fire department down the street from where I live so when someone calls 911 they are here within a minute. So if it's for the police or an ambulance the fire department gets here first with sirens screaming. We've had all sorts of problmes here so we never know what's happening.

We have called once on some neighbors that were fighting. It sounded so bad over there we were afraid that there might have been domestic abuse going on. Don't know what came of it, but I know if we didn't call I would have felt guilty in case something was happening over there. Better safe than sorry.