The joys of urban living #72

[vilakins]

Why does the police helicopter spend so much time overhead? Oh right, because the next suburb is a low-income high-crime one. Well bloody well hover over it, not me, and if you really have to, keep a sufficient altitude not to rattle my windows and model Daleks.

Yeah, fat chance. I wonder if I can buy ground-to-air armaments online.

Comments

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. I hate that. They haven't done it to me for a while, but on several occasions they circled my house continuously ALL night long.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They've done that. I have earplugs for that, but I don't want to wear them during the day. I must find some Mozart or Bach.

Being on the top of a hill doesn't help of course.

I think they've finally gone. I actually ran outside yesterday to swear at them and wave them away. Look, the crimmos are in Glen Innes, not my garden.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Look, the police aren't stupid, mind. They know where the crimmos are, but they've got GUNS.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

Look, the crimmos are in Glen Innes, not my garden

That caused a mixed reaction - there's a Glen Innes in Australia too, but it's a long way from me. Not that there aren't crimmos or potential crimmos in my bit of outer suburbia. Commiserations, vilakins.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ha, like the reaction I got to seeing a post about Gerard Way, the Canadian singer--and well known local street.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

You have to ask, or at least I do - is he the sort of person you can walk all over? :-)

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

That is such a pain!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It so is.

[san-valentine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, our police helicopter is amazingly loud. And when it appears, it seems to circle the area forever. Fortunately, this being a big city, it's got a large area to cover, so we don't get it to the point of distraction.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I can go days without it but they've been bothering me in the last week. Auckland is one of the biggest cities in the world by area, so I'm amazed they're overhead so often. I'm not sure how many helicopters they have though.

[crycraven.livejournal.com]

Hah! Crimmos! They are looking for Travis!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And the police probably heard that Vila's living around here somewhere.

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

We live next to a school, the playing field of which is used a landing area for Medivac helicopters when there is a bad accident on the freeway over a few streets. They come in at an angle over our roof. Of course, this is usually in the middle of the night and it sounds and feels like they're landing on top of us. So, yes, the wonders of urban living are endless.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Are they ever. As I type this, I can hear the helicopter (yes, it's back) and a distant siren. Sigh.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Ah. We haven´t reached this stage - yet. Trying hard, though...
Must be very bad.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

But you live in the country, like my sister. It must be so nice and quiet.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Oh yes - however, as you say, "off the beaten track" - no shop, 96 people, one bus in the morning, three in the afternoon...
But yes, yes - it is lovely here.Quite noisy now, it is a holiday season and there are hundreds of recreation cottages at a near-by pond, full of noisy folk. They usualy walk just under our windows,,,at night and very merry, so to speak, from the pub...:-)

[hafren.livejournal.com]

It is possible it is your nice middle-class area they are targeting; they do it to mine too, because NMCAs are quite apt to contain houses being used as cannabis factories and the choppers contain heat-seeking equipment to spot 'em. I've got a serving policeman as a writing student atm and am learning all manner of things...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You would think they'd have thoroughly checked this hill be now.

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

You could call the police and complain about some strange helicopter making too much noise at night...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's not just at might, and I think they'd detect the mock innocence; everyone knows what it is. There's a traffic helicopter too but it annoys the people in the central area--who get even more angry.

Is that one of your cats? That view is not a pleasant one when the cat on one's lap changes position at close [hind] quarters.

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's is an icon I nabbed from cat_macros. The cat in this icon is mine, though. I have six cats now, but I haven't gotten around to uploading all of their pictures just yet.

I'm very glad that in my country helicopters aren't allowed to fly over a city at night, unless there's an emergency.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Six! And some people are surprised at our three. :-)

Would that it were so here. It's just as annoying in the daytime though if it goes on for more than a few minutes.