Today.
There were two neighborhood kids (teenage for sure), taking turns riding a motorcycle, revving loudly and going up and down the unpaved alley facing my backyard every 40 seconds.
They kept coming back and going. Apparently they were having fun with the motorcycle, thinking the alley was their private track.
They were there yesterday, and they came back today. After 20 or so rounds, it got annoying. Also, I did not like a motorcycle coming and going in the alley where my cat sometimes wonder.
One kid looked like overgrown thick kid, like Crabbe kid in Harry Potter. He was the one on the motorcycle when I yelled "hey kid!". When he heard my complaint, he made lame excuses like "the cops said we can ride in the back alley" "we know people around". Duh. You are disturbing and provoking this entire neighborhood, and cops did not mean to permit that. It's not your private motorcycle track. This is a usually-quiet residential area and it's Sunday afternoon when many working people rest at home. You didn't hear the dogs barking at you?
Then quickly stepped in was another, shorter kid. he quickly said, "oh, so you live here?" and signaled the Crabbe kid to leave, then they left without apology. To my eyes, he was the smarter and slicker one, the Malfoy kid.
I heard some revving a few blocks away later on, but they don't seem to be sticking around. Okay, they are gone for now. It's an acceptable outcome. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.
Kids, go to a park or an open field or somewhere. There are plenty of them in Oklahoma. But this is a residential area. Don't be lazy.
In America, there are many nutcases with guns, who shoot you in the eye when provoked. They are particularly dangerous if they feel it is justified and if the provocation happens around their residence (territory). I personally don't really fancy shooting a person (ok, honest. Not unless I find a stranger inside my home at night). But there might be someone who is itching to make his day in this neighborhood. Let's hope I did a favor for the kids.
What kind of crazy reasoning is this.
I'm originally from Japan where gun control was very strict and the gun-related deaths toll was 724 in 1999. In America, gun-related deaths toll was about 30,000 in 2010, suicide and homicide combined [wikipedia]. I don't intend to get into an argument on gun control in this entry. My point is that there is a difference in these two societies. This gun society certainly requires different ways of thinking.
