If you go out looking for trouble, you will easily find it, or it might just find you.

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Warning, trouble might just be closer than you think, or right up the road, or around the next corner. Did you know that you might have next door neighbors who are in direct violation of the law and are just daring you to call police? Sometimes next door neighbors can be more than just people next door with a bad attitude and bad manners. They might be doing things illegally that are a direct threat to your safety and health. People these days don't know their neighbors like they did in the middle of the past century. We tend to pretty well ignore each other and that says a lot about how quickly we are adapting to living on the internet and forgetting what is going on right next to us in the world that directly affects us. We had a neighbor once, who beat his dog when he got drunk or was he drunk? Maybe he was just a man with a problem, a problem with his dog. He was by all appearances, a normal acting man, who claimed to be a minister and had a steady job and so forth, but at night I could see and hear him hitting his dog with some kind of object and it really messed with my head. I was afraid of that man. I lived knowing that that guy had no love for his pet. He may have believed actually, that hitting his dog made his dog mean so then his dog would be better at being a fierce and dangerous thing to have in his yard, in case a trespasser tried to get on his property and or break into his house. Maybe but beating your pet isn't the best method. But that is not the least of my troubles over the past decades with bad neighbors. I have seen people passing money for bags of whatever it might be, in the alley at night. I have seen people shooting shotguns in the air and into the ground and other times I have had to deal with neighbors who burn their trash in a 55 gallon oil drum instead of placing their garbage in a recycle bin or a trash bin, which makes it dangerous, because when they moved next door to us in December of 2017, when the man finished drinking a case of Corona beer, he burned every thing in that 55 gallon drum until embers would float up in the air and the wind blew some of those burning embers across the fence and landed in our back yard. I had to go out after he went back inside his house and I looked around to make sure our yard had not caught fire. Once, a few decades back but it seems just like a few years ago to me, a lady was running for her life with a gunshot to her stomach. She climbed over our back alley fence and stumbled on the ground, bleeding so badly we called 911, and let her in the house, because she was screaming, "My husband shot me and he is after me." She remained in our kitchen for a while while, with a bath towel held to her stomach to stop the bleeding. By the time the law got here, they came through our front door and the lady had fallen unconscious. Then to top it all off, while the detectives took photographs of the scene, her husband tried to enter our living room through the open front door, not expecting to find police and ran back out as the police followed chase after him. They got him, handcuffed him and took him away and the ambulance quickly came and took the lady, while she was still alive, to the hospital. It was a dangerous situation for all of us. When I helped that lady in the house after I helped her to her feet as she had fallen in the back yard, I could smell the odor of gunpowder. It was one event I will never forget. The things that have been going on just on our block is nothing compared to the number of illegal behaviors that go on 24/7 around the entire Metropolitan area of Dallas-Ft. Worth. If I was moving my family to another home to look for a better place to live, it would not be Dallas, TX. But the statistics are everywhere in the USA. What stories do you have to share?