Car Crime

[poliphilo]

There's an abandoned car sitting outside our house. It's been there for months. Last night someone broke four of the windows and threw a firework inside. Whump, whump, whump, whump, fizz-bang! The whumping sounded just like
someone bouncing a football up and down and I thought maybe it had bounced out of control and landed in out front yard. By the time I went to look there was no-one in sight and the car was full of smoke. Had it caught fire I guess it could have blown our windows out. Nasty.

I stood around with the neighbours (in the bitter cold) and we sherlocked. No-one had seen anything. Then we called the police. Half an hour later a single copper turned up and took notes. He says they'll get it towed away because it's a danger to the public. Sure is!

The copper opined it must have been "kids" (ain't it always!) but Ailz has the more persuasive theory that the car's owner hired someone (and she thinks she knows who) to write it off so he wouldn't be liable to pay to have it scrapped.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Luckily this one didn't catch on fire. We'd have been in danger if it had; there's only about five or six feet of yard between us and the street.

We had a garage/shed thing at the back that kept catching on fire a few years back. Whee, but that was spectacular! And now the kids gather on the vacant lot to throw stones at our neighbour's back windows.

Hmm. I'm making this sound like a high-crime neighbourhood. It's not really. Visitors tend to comment on how quiet and peaceful it is.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it didn't catch fire, too! I didn't realize how close the car was to your house.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a terrace house, raised about two to three feet above street level with a very small yard in front. It was built in 1910- a very typical middle of the range example of the urban housing of the period.

I just looked out the front and I see the dead car has been removed. Hooray!

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I just looked out the front and I see the dead car has been removed. Hooray!


Oh, good!

1910--I imagine your house is charming.

And how is your terra cotta kitchen? (You now have a yellow ceiling, right?)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's coming along, but it ain't finished yet. One of the walls I've still to paint is damp, but we think it's down to the clothes-dryer and not anything more sinister.

And yes, the ceiling is a bright lemon yellow.