Black family taunted with monkey noises by neighbors
Racist neighbor keeps cameras, lights, monkey noises playing as revenge tactic
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Sometimes neighbors are the worst, and I’ve had plenty that were. During my college years, I used to work evenings and nights as a photo tech for a nearby retail store. I would come home some late nights hearing my new neighbors blasting music loud enough to be heard a block away. I was tired and knew I had early-morning classes. Then there was the garbage in the lawn.
In Missouri, you have to buy a specific type of garbage bag in order for waste management companies to pick it up; it’s an alternate to paying garbage tax. The bags have red lettering on them and look completely different from the more-common black or white garbage bags. She refused to buy those bags so trash would sit on the front lawn for a week until I started putting her garbage bag in my garbage bag.
And while she was blasting music and dumping the wrong bags on the lawn, I finally got tired of her and knocked on her door. A face-to-face conversation resulted in confirming she had no job, didn’t seem to have a desire to be in school and just wanted to party. Two totally different worlds. The next time I came home to the white version of “House Party,” I called the police around midnight. The music quieted down, and then it cranked up to top volume a few minutes later. I called a second time.
Billionaire Bill Gross was fined $1,000, sentenced to five days in jail and has a ban on outdoor music … but this guy playing monkey music when his black neighbors leave the house for an entire year is just getting away with it?
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I also contacted the property managers and wrote her a letter. She (a white woman) went full Amy Cooper and told the property managers it was “threatening.” I sent a copy of the letter; they could find no threats inside. I started looking at other places to live. To my surprise, she moved out several weeks later and left a plastic container of half-eaten cupcakes in front of my door. I laughed. I knew she did that because I’d complained of garbage infestation and pests around the area. It was a great big middle finger to me, along with a suspicious egg cracked on my car a week or so later on Halloween. I shrugged. Life goes on.