Comments on: Kid in the House

By: Yours Truly

Yours Truly — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:51:33 +0000

WHOAAAA!

By: rch

rch — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:45:19 +0000

amazing story i heard yesterday, told to me by my uncle

He goes on vacation
During the day, neighbor hears sound of breaking glass, goes over to investigate
“Hello?” Sees basement window has been smashed. Looks up, a young man is looking at her from behind closed door of uncle’s house. The dude books it away from the door…
60-year-old neighbor lady then walks over to the other side of the house.
The kid, in a panic, tries to break out of a window which is nonetheless accessible to open the normal way. He cuts himself to hell, breaking the glass, going through the glass.
The kid is bleeding to death, sitting on a curb by the house. The neighbor walks up to him and says: “This is done. You need help. You need to come with me.” Takes his backpack, finds something in there to wrap around his arms.

I saw the blood underneath the window……. they missed some when cleaning up the crime scene!! The young man has survived and is presumably in prison (for other stuff besides this).

By: AR

AR — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:41:52 +0000

For some reason, because of fear I guess (and I’m ashamed of that fear), I just did not think about the possibility of the police escalating the situation until I watched as THREE cop cars arrived, all cops with hands on holsters prepared (but thankfully unwilling) to draw their firearms. If this kid had run for any reason and been shot it would haunt me for the rest of my life.
In this case, because it is Iowa City and there is not the kind of history of police brutality (usually driven by racist profiling) that one finds in L.A., N.Y., PDX, SF, Phoenix and other major cities, I think it was reasonable to assume that the cops would arrive and simply take the kid to the drunk tank. Luckily, that is what happened, but I’m still not proud of the fact that even with high profile police shootings happening in SF and Phoenix recently, the thought of a fatal police escalation did not cross my mind at the time.

By: geneviève

geneviève — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:59:03 +0000

I don’t like cops and I want them to be involved in my life as little as possible.
BUT
You shouldn’t feel bad for calling them, especially since you dialed the non-emergency number. There are situations one can’t handle 100% rationally when one just got woken up by a distressed dog at five in the morning. This is one of them. A drunk aggressive guy hitting a parking sign in front of your house is one thing, a drunk aggressive guy in your house is another.
I almost called the cops on my neighbor across the street last night. He was screaming his head off at his girlfriend who was crying. He was hitting things and calling her all sorts of things, he does this regularly but usually he is talking on the phone. Always in the front steps of their house. Eventually his girlfriend went inside and locked the door. He started pounding on it. Screaming some more. This was around 10 PM and after a while I felt I had to call the non-emergency number for the cops, but before I dialed it all went quiet and I thought maybe I should let the guy’s girlfriend decide wether or not she wants the cops there.
Ironically that same night Fudge was at a wedding up the street that got shut down by the cops. A few generations of people were happily dancing, it wasn’t even midnight on a Friday night.

As an eighteen-year-old in Victoria I came back from work one night at three in the morning. A little while later, as I read in bed with a limited amount of clothing on I noticed this drunk guy shuffling on my porch in front of my open window. I closed the window and he started yelling at me and kicking the railing. One of my roommates woke up and the two of us stared right into his eyes pleading for him to go away and he proceeded to kick at the window. We called the cops and they took him away. In the morning my other older, more activist, roommate told us we never should have had the cops involved.
Here is how I see it:
Would you ever let yourself get so drunk/wasted that you go on a rampage scaring the shit out of sleepy people? If you had a friend who did this, would you just leave them to fend for themselves with no clothes on? Maybe you would if it was typical of them. Perhaps a visit with the cops might do some good in some cases. Even if I hate cops.