To think that the police kicking my neighbours...

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door in at 5am this morning and raiding her house was not a usual start to Christmas Eve festivities??

No.. It certainly is a change from 5am disturbance as people lurch in drunk

Toddler took it as a sign it was time to get up so have been awake since then. Looks like we'll all be in bed early tonight in time for Santa coming.

for a nosy swine like me it was delicious though

Any idea what it was about? Friend had similar recently - about 3 cars , loads of police all storming house at about 5am (early rising kids so she was up). Allegedly neighbour was involved in drugs .

Ooh could you hear all the juicy details?
I live on a massive sink estate, the police practically live here. I've turned into to a right nosy cow! First sign of a police raid and my nose is pressed into the window.

Yikes!

I had a lovely Christmas Eve with a brace of police officers one year - after my neighbour's lodger's ex boyfriend came round and smashed some windows after a row about a mobile phone..

Drugs I suspect because her house is like a taxi rank and she looks like a crack whore she was out though had they called when the usual 15 young lads were in during the day they'd probably have had a better result.
Last year she beat another girl who was a guest at one of her parties to a pulp on her front path. Ah the joys of living here!

Exciting! We had to call the police on Christmas Day once as there was a fight outside. We had lived here 3 days, and were wondering if we'd made the right decision.

abbie that's similar to when we moved into our house 5 years ago - we were only there a week when I went to go to work 1 day but couldn't move the car - there was Police crime scene tape tied to the back of it. Turns out there was a murder right outside my house!

Its not as bad as it sounds though , it was a family disagreement and the street has got a lot better

Well the family who were always fighting eventually moved out and drug dealers live there now!
Has anyone else who lives in a shitty area found that drug dealers make excellent neighbours? We find that ours don't want any trouble, so are unfailingly polite and considerate. (In all fairness, when it comes to neighbours our expectations are pretty low round here!)

I lived on a sink estate until a year ago - the police practically lived at my neighbour's house.

One night there was a massive fight out the front which consisted of two girls kicking hell out of a young lad (neighbours son). For once in his life he looked more sinned against than sinning so yet again I called police - but more to give him some aide rather than to arrest him.
Before the police turned up the two girls went off .....but not before one of them disappeared under the stairwell to retrieve her 10 month old baby in a pushchair who had witnessed the entire thing . I got straight back on to the police to tell them a baby had witnessed it all and my neighbour made sure they knew who had "assaulted my poor Billy". Last I heard the baby now has a child protection plan (much needed) and Mum has been told to watch her behaviour.

PS: "Poor Billy" is currently doing three years for a series of burgleries, car thefts and various other offences!

LOL at 'family disagreement'!!! Yikes!

I have dealers as neighbors and agree they are excellent to live near, no trouble at all. One of thier clients was throwing rocks at windows the other week but after I shrieked like a fishwife told him not too he cleared off and nothing else happened.

I think the "family disagreement " got out of hand ......but it did solve the problems in the street - the guy who did it stabbed his sisters boyfriend and these 2 were the biggest problems in the street apparantly so ones now dead and ones in jail.

Woa, I thought having shrieking teenage girls passing my house at school kick out time was bad....

Is it weird that I'm a bit jealous? We live in the middle of nowhere with no neighbours. The most exciting thing going on round here is when the farmer puts his cows in the field next door.

Dealers do make excellent neighbours. Apart from when people get the wrong house and you have to explain that you are not a dealer in front of 4 yr old DSD!

MudAndGlitter have you really had to do that?

Yes. And then explain to DSD's mum why her daughter was talking about strange men coming to the house and asking for 'special sweeties'.
He was a really nice neighbour but his clients were idiots!

debka the putting of the cows in the field is a clear sign he's just picked up a couple of K's of weed and the orgy is about to commence

I thought everyone knew that?

OP 'tis quite the traditional festive activity for some I imagine! Some people think it's not a proper Christmas without a squabble over a board game, for others a kicked in front door and all that follows screams Noel

I once lived between a notorious shoplifter and a smack dealer. They were lovely, it was the family of screeching fishwives who lived opposite me and next door to the dealer who caused me to move, although often once it got to 4am the dealer would on his doorstep ordering the fishwives to stop with their bellowing before the 'bobbys' turn up.

I was never quite sure what I should be doing with the 'gifts' the shoplifter kept giving to dd1. Most of them went to the local charity shop, given that I had no proof they were stolen and no proof they weren't and didn't want to rock the boat.

Reminds me of myneighbours before the cocklodger moved out. Woken up one morning at 4am while DH was away by loud hammering noise, looked out the window to see a cop by neighbours door and an emergency glazier fixing their front window from a particularly heated disagreement. Spent most of that year pricking up my ears when there were particularly noisy fights to listen for any signs that I should ring the cops, but in fact I think only the fixtures and fittings ever suffered violence.

There's a house near me that I swear belongs to a dealer. I know they're usually smoking weed while they do the garden and people come and go.

Funnily enough, their garden is lovely. Presumably because no one would dare mess it up (it's opposite a pub and near the town centre, a good target for most drunk people).