Gatesgate

[aTailOf2Kitties]

she didn't recognize her own neighbor?

[Medusa]

she didn't recognize her own neighbor?

See, this is what I'm talking about. Apparently she did not recognize him. Otherwise, why would she have called 911? I'm dismayed to say that I don't know most my neighbors except the ones to the immediate left and right and across the street. People work, long hours, too. My neighbors directly across the street from me are gone nearly all day and night. I only see them pull in or out of their driveway. I never see their faces. Even my neighbor to the immediate left of me is gone so much that when I saw her, I jokingly said "I thought you had moved!" So if I saw someone trying to force a door open, I'd probably call the police, too, and then probably also take criticism for it. We're told to watch out for our neighbors, neighborhood watches used to be big around here but not so much any more and now I can see why. Just a couple of weeks ago, someone tried to steal concrete furniture from my yard. It was clear that they were trying to lift it over the fence. They apparently didn't realize how heavy it was so they just dropped it in the middle of the yard. Did anyone see anything? Who knows. No one called 911, except me when I got home and discovered that the furniture had been moved.

[Karen]

she didn't recognize her own neighbor?

You can live next to someone in Cambridge for years and never see them - it's very densely populated, and yet this is completely true. I feel sorry for the woman who made the call, and think both Gates and Crowley owe her an apology.

[RICHARD]

Seriously,

Only in America can we have some cretin yell "racism" then get 'rewarded' by a beer bash in the White House.

If the AH had no shame, he'd tell the prez, "No thanks, I acted like a moron and need to get my head straight!"

Nope, he's made a celeb because he's BFF with Obama.

What a chump.

[pomtzu]

I live in the country, but still have neighbors on either side - just further away since the lots are 2 acres and have a 200' frontage. I wouldn't know any of them if I fell over them - that's just the way it is. I see them at a distance working in their yards occasionally, but that's the extent of it. It seems no one has time for anyone but their own anymore. If I saw any suspicious actions around their properties, I would still report it and take my chances, and hope that they would do the same for me.

[phesina]

I lived for 13 years in Cambridge right around the block from his house. I couldn't recognize all the people who lived in my building (about 40 apartments), let alone anyone who lived in the next one. That's all Harvard property on that block, rental housing and offices, and all kinds of people are coming and going all the time. And it's right on the edge of Harvard Square, one of the busiest locations at all hours of the day and night in metropolitan Boston.

[Lizzie]

I called out the cops on my neighbor's son and his friend when they were lurking in my garden but all I saw were two young men standing at the top of my front garden at about 2am and then racing around to the back of my house. Of course I called the cops, and I remember my voice shaking when I did so. And of course I gave the best description I could, they appeared to be white, late teens, casual clothing, that kind of thing.

[Pam]

In a country where people have been criticized for not getting involved when they see things happening I think this woman is a hero. I would like her as one of my neighbors.

Make it 5 votes!

[lizbud]

I was under the impression that the woman didn't live in the
neighborhood, but was cleaning the house were she was.The woman really
deserves a apology. Obama can speak out in her defense & tell these
crazy people to apologize to her themselves.

[RICHARD]

I have to laugh, I had the unfortunate reason to talk to two LAPD cops today.

I asked them each, One woman and one man, if they would go to the White House for a beer, they both said, "Yes".

We all laughed and had fun with the topic. They are the unsung thread in the world we live in.

Until they do something stupid, like tase and pepperspray a deaf man, they deserve a little respect.

We want our neighbors to be nosy when we need them, We don't need them to see EVERYTHING!

Again, I laugh at the hispanic reference in the woman's 911 call, I am not offended....

Sorry,

This poor woman did the RIGHT thing, as did the cop before Blowhard Mc Effwad began to yell and scream racism.

She doesn't derserve an invitation where the 'boys' are going to sit there drink pee-water and talk about good old boy stuff? Coors? Red Stripe? Bud Light?

Wussies.

Some mezcal or Everclear....Get them wasted and make them talk about women. Or sports....

Let them play beer pong or have the Secret Service shoot them all in the crotch with tasers.



What ever happened to winning a visit to the the government? When I was a kid you wrote an essay to get a trip to city hall, a photo with the councilman and a tuna melt, coke and fries with the CM and the other winners.

Now you have to be involved in a racist incident to get that trip, plus they are serving beer that sucks.

Thanks, but no thanks. I'd rather go to the party where people talking loud, acting stupid and having a good time.

Not a get together that the altruistic head master calls when people get into a tussle.

Beer and talk?

Nope, I want booze and scandal!