Does this sound shady to you?

[SDFgirl]

Our home is on a side street right off of a very busy road. There is a smaller side street right off of ours.

In the last few days, my DH has said that he has seen a woman from the smaller street walk up to a car that stops right in front of our house. (Two different cars). The lady goes up to the car's driver side window, chat for 10 seconds or less, exchange something, then everyone zips off.

I thought he was crazy but today, I saw it happen again. This time she went to the passenger side window. I saw her pick several small white objects out of her hand, give them to the passenger, and get some money in return. Then she walked back to her house (several houses away).

Well by now I am sure you're thinking what I am. I hate to be suspicious but I think drug deals are going on in front of our house. We have small kids and sadly, so does she.

DH called the police. Were we right to do that? We have no proof, but I think her behavior is very shady...

 

[happygirl]

Our home is on a side street right off of a very busy road. There is a smaller side street right off of ours.

In the last few days, my DH has said that he has seen a woman from the smaller street walk up to a car that stops right in front of our house. (Two different cars). The lady goes up to the car's driver side window, chat for 10 seconds or less, exchange something, then everyone zips off.

I thought he was crazy but today, I saw it happen again. This time she went to the passenger side window. I saw her pick several small white objects out of her hand, give them to the passenger, and get some money in return. Then she walked back to her house (several houses away).

Well by now I am sure you're thinking what I am. I hate to be suspicious but I think drug deals are going on in front of our house. We have small kids and sadly, so does she.







DH called the police. Were we right to do that? We have no proof, but I think her behavior is very shady...

No I wouldn't have called, you really have no proof. You are probably 100% right what they are doing. I wouldn't have got involved

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I don't think you did..it's suspicious activity. You aren't accusing anyone of anything.

Sometimes it amounts to something and sometimes it doesn't.

I had a druggie live across the street from me. And while I was clueless and never reported him--I did find all this out after the fact. Plus there was a cop chase that ended at his house. It was dark and a scene straight from cops--including the part where the....person fleeing the law, pulled the car to the door step, hopped out and began banging on the door. The cops got to him before it was answered. When the guy opened the door....the person of interest was shouting, "tell them I was here the whole time". He's long gone now. His mom (who owned the house and rented to him) had the place cleaned up and sold it. Unfortunately, the new owners were the proud owner of a back yard filled with hypodermic needles that the druggie had disposed of.

Police wont' do anything without cause and since this is taking place away from that woman's home in a quick suspect manner, you are fine with what you did (as long as you didn't tell them you witnessed a drug deal, but rather just witnessed extremely suspicious activity that seemed....)

 

[Tink888]

Sounds shady to me. And I probably would've called the police also. No one will know your DH called and if the woman isn't doing anything wrong, then there is nothing for her to worry about.

Honestly, all it takes is one lousy neighbor to bring down the entire street. You live there. You have a vested interest in keeping your neighborhood safe. Your DH absolutely did the right thing. Better to be proactive right from the start. Much harder to stop once it gets out of hand.

 

[chloelovesdisney]

Yes, you did the right thing. The police will watch them and if nothing is going on, nothing will happen. However, if something is happening, you gave them the heads up before it gets out of hand. Like the house explodes from meth making gone wrong, or a high driver coming to get some drugs drives onto the sidewalk, or who knows what. She is possibly bringing very bad people onto your block, not good.

 

[ilovejack02]

Sounds shady to me. And I probably would've called the police also. No one will know your DH called and if the woman isn't doing anything wrong, then there is nothing for her to worry about.

Honestly, all it takes is one lousy neighbor to bring down the entire street. You live there. You have a vested interest in keeping your neighborhood safe. Your DH absolutely did the right thing. Better to be proactive right from the start. Much harder to stop once it gets out of hand.

EXACTLY! My next door neighbors are super shady moved in about 3 months ago , just caught him in my back yard digging through my shed trying to steal DH's hunting gear. I ran him off ( stupid I know!! ) and called police. They picked him up and dummy had pot in his pockets. Spent several days in jail and lost his job .. which means no rent money

My entire neighborhood now knows and others are realizing that things have come up missing from their yards too.

It is our job to look out for each other , hopefully he will be out of here very soon!!

You don't want this kind of trash in your neighborhood , I would call every time I saw it happen.

 

[SDFgirl]

Thanks you all. I get a sick feeling in my stomach when this kind of stuff goes down. We've always had good relationships with our neighbors and I definitely don't want to start some sort of neighborhood war.

But, it really irritates me that this is all happening in front of my house! I am guessing it's because we live so close to the "busy" street - easy for the customers (if that's what they are) to get out of the neighborhood and into the crowd.

DH's tip was anonymous, of course, and there are at least 4 houses that could have witnessed this, but still I'm afraid of retaliation.

 

[chloelovesdisney]

Don't worry, they'll never know it was you. Don't discuss it with any other neighbors, keep it between you and dh only.

 

[hereyago]

Our home is on a side street right off of a very busy road. There is a smaller side street right off of ours.

In the last few days, my DH has said that he has seen a woman from the smaller street walk up to a car that stops right in front of our house. (Two different cars). The lady goes up to the car's driver side window, chat for 10 seconds or less, exchange something, then everyone zips off.

I thought he was crazy but today, I saw it happen again. This time she went to the passenger side window. I saw her pick several small white objects out of her hand, give them to the passenger, and get some money in return. Then she walked back to her house (several houses away).

Well by now I am sure you're thinking what I am. I hate to be suspicious but I think drug deals are going on in front of our house. We have small kids and sadly, so does she.

DH called the police. Were we right to do that? We have no proof, but I think her behavior is very shady...

She did this in broad day light? Dang! You know usually people hate to be seen or acknowledged. Next time if you or DH is outside and sees her, maybe yell Hi such and such how are you? Yes, the cops may do drive bys, but they can't be there all the time.

I live on a cul de sac and a few years ago, there was a truck who didnt belong here pull up at my neighbor's house-which was empty and for sale-at night and they were stupid enough to have the interior light on and pass something back and forth. think whacky tabacky. So, I thought I would give them some more light. I got in my car and drove out of the driveway and parked in front of my house and had my high beams on them. They left real quick.

 

[mjkacmom]

This happened at our neighbor's house, an adult out of work son home during the day. He just got out of jail 2 weeks ago, so we'll be watching again!

 

[minkydog]

I'd bet you my paycheck she's dealing drugs. Of course you did the right thing! You don't have to be 100% positive. You just have to report suspicious activity. The police are more than prepared to set up surveillance and investigate the complaint. No one should feel they have to put up with shady stuff going on right by their house!

 

[kathie859]

You have a vested interest in keeping your family safe and the neighborhood free of illegal activities. If she's not doing anything illegal then no harm done But it seems an awfully odd scenario.

Good luck.

 

[OceanAnnie]

Yes, very shady. You absolutely did the right thing! If you have a vantage point where you can see without being seen, I'd jot down the license plates of those drive bys too. And hand them over to the cops.

 

[PattnFmly]

You did the right thing! We had this going on in our neighborhood too, but I didn't realize it at first. We also had "strung-out" people walking down the middle of the street at 2:00 am calling out the name of the dealer because she didn't know what house was his since he met people "around the corner" too. Then there were the gunshots one night across the street. Wish I'd known from the first and had called myself! Once we did know, we were asked by the police to jot down all the license plates we saw stopping in this manner. Took a few months, but the dealer ended up arrested and is now long gone!

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

Good for you guys for going with your gut. Let the police sort it all out.

 

[bumbershoot]

That behaviour IS suspicious.

I live right near downtown, and there's a police sub-station a couple blocks away. If one of the police officers saw that exact same activity on the street right there, he would be checking it out.

Therefore, if I'm seeing that activity, I am going to call the cops so they can look it over, see the activity, and go from there.


I lived on an unincorporated, dead-end street until I left for college. The people across the street were drug and gun dealers. They did NOT enhance our lives or the street in any way, shape, or form. (I only wish the cops in the city I grew up in had been of use to us, but alas they were not. Not about that, not about "domestic" violence in our house when I was little, not about anything.)

 

[manning]

Our home is on a side street right off of a very busy road. There is a smaller side street right off of ours.

In the last few days, my DH has said that he has seen a woman from the smaller street walk up to a car that stops right in front of our house. (Two different cars). The lady goes up to the car's driver side window, chat for 10 seconds or less, exchange something, then everyone zips off.

I thought he was crazy but today, I saw it happen again. This time she went to the passenger side window. I saw her pick several small white objects out of her hand, give them to the passenger, and get some money in return. Then she walked back to her house (several houses away).

Well by now I am sure you're thinking what I am. I hate to be suspicious but I think drug deals are going on in front of our house. We have small kids and sadly, so does she.

DH called the police. Were we right to do that? We have no proof, but I think her behavior is very shady...

You bet. In our town the police would give you a medal if they could for reporting it.

 

[AlleyKat]

Honestly, all it takes is one lousy neighbor to bring down the entire street. .

Boy, can I relate to that!

 

[karibritt01]

No way I would want that taking place in front of my house! There is a reason that she doesn't want her "clients" to know where she lives... it's dangerous for her and her family for them to know which house has all the drugs and money in it! Lucky for her they will now think she lives at your house, so her posessions and family are safe.

I would cal and make a report EVERY time I saw it happening. If any of your other neighbors are people you trust, then I would have them watching and calling, too. The more reports that come in, the quicker the cops will do something about it.

 

[cm8]

I agree with PP, she is using your house as a backdrop and it could become very dangerous for you and your family. She should be stopped cold in her tracks before something happens to you or your family. Take pictures if you can too. and make sure you get the reports from the police to have in a file so if something goes down, you will have reports to back up your claim