Oh, and another thing...

[valis2]

Grumpy icon again.

Last night someone knocked violently on my apartment door. It took me a moment to get to the door because I was so surprised. I mean, nobody ever knocks on my door, especially not at night. So by the time I got to the door I heard the telltale noise of fireworks. (My apartment door is in a recessed stairwell that serves six apartments. There's another door facing mine.)

Somebody put a fountain (pillar-style firework) right on the ledge in front of the door...about an inch away from the door, if that. I didn't open the door because I didn't want the smoke in the apartment, and I didn't want to encourage people by reacting. Still, it pissed me off bigtime. I mean, seriously, WTF? Has this ever happened to anyone else?

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[lady-branwyn.livejournal.com]

No fireworks, though someone once hit our front window with a paint gun (which annoyed me) and another time someone left sticks in the form of a pentacle on our front yard a la "Blair Witch Project" (husband and I nearly laughed ourselves sick).

[valis2.livejournal.com]

hahaha! The Blair Witch thing is hilarious.

I would have been so pissed about the paint gun, though. I'm still puzzling about the fireworks.

[acerbicwit.livejournal.com]

That is so dangerous!

I used to have problems with my neighbors marital problems that were um, displayed for all to see and hear at 3am. And someone cut my cable lines.

[corvus-coronis.livejournal.com]

I've had a few empty drink bottles thrown into my yard (one from a party two houses away, it sailed over the middle one into my place), and I've heard of the 'turd in a paper bag on the doorstep & set on fire' trick, but not that one. Sounds bloody dangerous, though 0_o

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Wow, that really sucks! I would be so upset.

I'm just hoping that this was a simple, random trick.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I really wonder what they were trying to prove. Honestly, you can't even see my door, just about. They'd have to stand in the stairwell to see my reaction. Totally weird.

[slave4severus.livejournal.com]

OMG Did it burn your door? That really IS dangerous, what if it would have caught fire?
Nothing like that has happened to me, but it sounds like a bunch of kids who have nothing better to do. GRRRRRRR. I'm happy you're ok though.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness it didn't burn my door or I really would have been furious. It did leave soot all over the ledge, though. Makes me crazy! heh.

Aw, thanks, I'm glad it didn't do any real damage too.

[acerbicwit.livejournal.com]

It is so dry here where I live (we're in a major drought) that if you just look angry at the grass it could burst into flames. I can't imagine anyone doing such a stupid trick. Except kids. Damn kids will do anything.

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

I have never lived in an apartment. However I have lived in many houses where big parties went on. Oh the stories. One of the classic party tricks was this:

1. Wait until everyone is really shitfaced
2. Search the kitchen for substances such as vegetable oil
3. Apply to floor
4. Watch the fun!

This happened so often that my band wrote a song about it. It is called Wesson Oil.

[todayiamadaisy]

People can be stupid and annoying sometimes, can't they? The teenage son of the fisherman who lives across the road from me used to like to sit in his dad's boat and let off flares at odd hours of night. I was so glad when he left home!

[mysduende.livejournal.com]

That's horrible! Not to mention dangerous. Would make me want to have a police patrol.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

*laughs* At least no Wessons were damaged in the process, I assume.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds awful. Not to mention the whole "crying wolf" aspect. I would have been furious.

I'm going to let the office know, at the very least.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely be letting the office know. It's weird; I've lived here for three years and never had a single prank played on me before.

[rinsbane.livejournal.com]

Dude, wtf? I've never had anything like that happen in my apt, but I'm still not to keen on apts in general. You have to put up with so many other people's shit. Such is life, I suppose. Glad nothing was seriously messed up by it.

[florence-craye.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[marginaliana]

Errr, wow. I've lived a quiet life, apparently! Even when I lived in a dorm, we always went with non-harmful pranks...

[valis2.livejournal.com]

It's just so weird. I mean, they couldn't even really see it, considering how the stairwell is set up. It would have been better if they had put it on the ledge of the door across from me. Very, very strange.

[sylvadin.livejournal.com]

Has this ever happened to anyone else?

Fireworks at front door? No.
Fireworks set off in mailbox? Yes.

Previous residence was in the country...on a rural road...with no neighbors visible...and bored idiots with access to carkeys in the area... Usually the idiots merely whacked the poor mailbox with a baseball bat - a few minutes repair work with a hammer could often return the mailbox to functional if not cosmetically pretty condition. However, one July 5th, I went out to the mailbox and discovered it had been fed something which had blown out every rivet and left the mailbox flat like a pancake with a door valiantly hanging on by one screw.

[sylvadin.livejournal.com]

I forgot to mention I'm referring to one of those rural delivery type mailboxes - the big black type that sits on a post by the side of the road.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Totally insane. I don't understand the delight involved in destroying others' property. *fumes*

[valis2.livejournal.com]

It's so bizarre, isn't it? I just don't get it. And they put it on the wrong side, really; the door is under the stairs. The other neighbors are at the bottom of the down stairs, and they would have had a clear view. There's so much I don't understand about this.