Crime in Riverside

[coredumped]

Because I didn't know either:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bippy

Bip·py   [bip-ee]
noun, plural bip·pies. Slang .
an unspecified part of the anatomy (usually used in the phrase You bet your  ( sweet ) bippy ).

[Overstreet]

Maybe I'm just fabulously unlucky.  Somebody suggested I'm on my way to turning into "one of those guys who goes crazy and lights up the front lawn with spot lights and sirens any time anyone sets food onto the property" 

Motion detector lights and fences make good neighbors in my experience. I wouldn't live there to begin with. But I see the problem. I cannot imagine leaving a vehicle unlocked in town or in the burbs.  Our house in St Louis was on a good street but near a bad one.  The fence, and dog were deterents that seemed to work.  Parking on the street was always an adventure. One day the manic landscaper neighbor used a garden rake to run off a pistol packing hold up man.....er.....kid.  Before the dog and the motion light at the side of the house the neighbor was attacked on our bulkhead.  The electrrician next door had his truck broken into. They took the radio and left all his tools and test equipment.  The joys of living downtown. 

In my 27 years of having a series of houses in Mandarin things have happened. One of my Mandarin neighbors dissappeared and/or moved when the FBI and FWC raided them one night. Another neighbor killed his wife and dumped her in the Shands parking lot.  Still another one, with the assistance of his Beaches prostitute, killed his wife in their garage and took her body  to Regency Sq parking lot and left it.  A drug dealer was raided that kept a tiger cub for a while.  There was a raid on a house where bomb making was found.  There was a neighborhood where my friend's teenage neighbor was dealing from his bedroom window. His customers would hit cars on the egress from the neighborhood for radar detectors and other things.  A cop I know had a shot gun stolen from the trunk of his patrol car.  My co-worker's boat was stolen broken trailer and all.  I know of a few burglaries and break ins.  Sometimes you come out and the whole car is missing. One night the ladies coming out of Mandarin Prespeterian(sp)  one night were held up by a armed robber.  The Shell station at St Aug and Losco was held up and someone shot while I was out of town.  In one neighborhood the parents knew which house to go to when ever a bicycle turned up missing.  Thieves are everywhere.

Oh.......stuff gets thrown in my yard a lot too, but the homeless have never lived under the house.  I'm sorry about the grass. I'm going home now to mow.

[crazycatlady]

I lived in Riverside as a single woman for 9 years.  I had my house burglarized once in 2008 but I didn't move until I sold my house in 2012. I did get a security system after the the burglary.   I still think the neighborhood is great.  Brian - you may have bad luck.  Either way, there are a lot of issues with expansion in the area that impacts businesses and the neighbors who live there, which is another total thread of discussion that I don't wish to discuss here.  I am just sorry to see good people leave a wonderful neighborhood.  BTW, I moved to the Southbank downtown and the security here is great. As some background info, I wouldn't have sold my house in Riverside if I hadn't wanted to leave the city for other unrelated reasons.

[If_I_Loved_you]

Because I didn't know either:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bippy

Bip·py   [bip-ee]
noun, plural bip·pies. Slang .
an unspecified part of the anatomy (usually used in the phrase You bet your  ( sweet ) bippy ).

BIBBY from the 
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bibby&page=2
6 up, 30 down

3. Of, or relating to, a person or people that seek out narcotics in exchange for a sexual favor.

*Wildly used among members of faternaties and sororites on University campuses*

"Did you just see her come out of the bathroom with him? What a effin Bibby."

"If you really need it that bad, you could always pull a Bibby on her."

[mtraininjax]

a stolen audio cable

Wow, Brian, a stolen audio cable, holy hole in a donut. I mean here in Avondale, across from the Grace Baptist Church, people steal anything not locked down, planters, bags of mulch, Halloween decorations, but an audio cable, dude, you need to run to Springfield where the living is easy and the trannys are so much better looking than at the Metro......

Wow!!!

[Brian Siebenschuh]

Jack, I'll go toe to toe with anyone that's lived in the 'hood for nearly a decade like I have on the value of stolen or destroyed property.  If you read my initial post, my house has been burglarized FOUR times.  That's 2 XBox 360's, a couple Windows notebook computers, an iMac, a Macbook Pro, and random other odds and ends.  All while I've had home security circumvented by the fact that it doesn't make sense to put sensors on every single one of my twenty windows - or that I had (most recently, I know for a fact) somebody climb in through my dog door, grab a pot of off my pot rack and beat up my dogs, and go back out through the dog door in order to not set off the alarm.

Ignore the multiple vehicles that I've had to have repaired / totalled out from people crashing into them in the middle of the night while they were legally parked on the street.

So like I said in a previous follow up, maybe I'm just unlucky.  I've learned to budget the $500 / $1000 insurance deductibles.  But, hey Jack, sorry to hear about your bags of mulch and Halloween decorations.  Paying for those a second time must have really been tough.

And guys, get real.  I'm not actually leaving the 'hood.  I was just venting.  Does anyone actually believe somebody like me could actually afford to sell a house in this market?!  I love Riverside.  Even if I do hate it.  It's an abusive relationship, but that's the only kind that I'm familiar with

[L.P. Hovercraft]

I had (most recently, I know for a fact) somebody climb in through my dog door, grab a pot of off my pot rack and beat up my dogs, and go back out through the dog door in order to not set off the alarm.

OMG, that's horrible!  Hope your dogs are ok.

If there's any justice in the afterlife, there's a special circle in hell set aside just for a*holes that beat up dogs!

[mtraininjax]

Does anyone actually believe somebody like me could actually afford to sell a house in this market?!

Brian - Tell you what, I won't tell you how to make my favorite pork chop at Orsay, please refrain from your commentary on real estate. Just as I would not walk into your kitchen and know how to make the world famous steak tartare, you would be amazed how easily and quickly your house could sell, as there are few houses on the market in Riverside and Avondale and it has turned into a sellers market.

But alas, please do not spit in my food. 

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

It's an abusive relationship, but that's the only kind that I'm familiar with

Insert passive-aggressive snarky comment here.

But alas, please do not spit in my food. 

Insert asshole-ish comment here.

[Brian Siebenschuh]

you would be amazed how easily and quickly your house could sell, as there are few houses on the market in Riverside and Avondale and it has turned into a sellers market.

Point taken.  I'm always down to be proven wrong - it makes you learn.

Wait, no, I'll say it makes ME learn, since I've just been admonished for making declarations outside my realm of expertise.  I can only speak for myself, and being shown that I'm wrong makes me realize that I don't know everything.

Open call to real estate agents in the area, if you can sell my house (out the door, as it were) for $1 more than what I owe, I'm probably interested in selling.  But Zillow doesn't point toward a promising outcome.

And Jack, you're always welcome at Orsay.  If I'm around the next time you come in, I'll even make all your food personally

[Adam W]

When you've had a break-in, I think the biggest loss isn't the actual stuff you get stolen, it's the loss of that sense of security. You feel violated and have a hard time feeling comfortable or secure in your home for a long time afterwards.

We can sit here having a pissing contest and comparing war stories, but that accomplishes nothing. We all have different experiences. Some people have lived in Riverside or Avondale for many, many years without incident. Others haven't been anywhere near as lucky.

Sorry to hear about your situation, Brian. I hope you come to terms with it and find a solution that works for you.

[fsquid]

When you've had a break-in, I think the biggest loss isn't the actual stuff you get stolen, it's the loss of that sense of security. You feel violated and have a hard time feeling comfortable or secure in your home for a long time afterwards.

bingo

[Brian Siebenschuh]

Yep, 100% accurate, knowing somebody was IN YOUR HOUSE, beating your dogs away with some of your own kitchen appliances while they're unwiring your electronics.  It sucks.  But hey, apparently that's our lot in life over in here in the '04.  Have you heard about the atrocities in AVONDALE?  RIGHT ACROSS FROM A CHURCH?  They're stealing PLANTERS, and BAGS OF MULCH, worth at LEAST ten bucks.  AT LEAST.

fsquid and Adam W, thanks for understanding my need to vent.

The first one sucked, the second one made me question the neighborhood, the third one made me feel stupid for letting it happen, and the fourth one forced me to close up my dog door and (coincidentally) get another dog (a French Mastiff that wouldn't have fit through the door anwyay).  Tank is having some behavior issues these days, but I'd be more than happy to have him unleash his teenage angst on an intruder.

[Dog Walker]

Yep, 100% accurate, knowing somebody was IN YOUR HOUSE, beating your dogs away with some of your own kitchen appliances while they're unwiring your electronics.  It sucks.  But hey, apparently that's our lot in life over in here in the '04.  Have you heard about the atrocities in AVONDALE?  RIGHT ACROSS FROM A CHURCH?  They're stealing PLANTERS, and BAGS OF MULCH, worth at LEAST ten bucks.  AT LEAST.

fsquid and Adam W, thanks for understanding my need to vent.

The first one sucked, the second one made me question the neighborhood, the third one made me feel stupid for letting it happen, and the fourth one forced me to close up my dog door and (coincidentally) get another dog (a French Mastiff that wouldn't have fit through the door anwyay).  Tank is having some behavior issues these days, but I'd be more than happy to have him unleash his teenage angst on an intruder.

I've seen Tank and think that if an intruder came into your house they would disappear forever and you wouldn't have to feed him for a couple of days!  Dogs are the best security devices.

[thekillingwax]

Lived in springfield until I was 31- zero issues. I think someone took a plant off our porch and the neighbors went through cycles of shit-ness but never had any safety issues. Moved to r'side and someone broke in after 3 months. I was lucky in that I work nights and was in bed when they tried to come inside. They were lucky because they got spooked after knocking over a metal vase that was sitting inside the window because I would've killed them. We've got another year here but I don't think I'll stay in the area after that. We're on the first floor and I'd like to be up high enough somewhere that coming in through the windows isn't an option. I love having the windows open in the fall and I don't think we'll be doing that anymore while we're here. We have some of those screw-on window guards ( like this: http://www.amazon.com/High-Security-Sliding-Window-Lock-Installation/dp/B00065XR2M/ref=pd_sim_sbs_hi_1 ) but I don't know if they work that well, or at least enough to trust them while I'm asleep.