Is it OK to stand in the hallway and listen to the fight in case it gets violent? They do this frequently. They get very loud, but I don’t think they’ve ever gotten violent. It just sounds like they could at any moment.
Yes it’s ok to keep an ear out.
I hope it calms down soon.
Sorry you’re going through this, @anon9798425. Sounds stressfull. Been there. Thank you for caring about your neighbors.
No, it’s OK. A lot of stuff happens in this apartment block since it’s owned by the government. I do feel bad for her though, because she’s the one who was out with me waiting for the ambulance when my neighbor killed himself. I sort of feel close to her, even though I don’t know her. But she has these fights with her boyfriend at least once a month. I went up to my apartment when I heard the guy had calmed down and wanted to leave, because I didn’t want him to come out and see me standing there.
I have only been witness to two angry fights. One was at a restaurant and the other was at an apartment I lived at. At the restaurant, I wasn’t worried because it was public, so other people could help, too, if it got bad. At the apartment, I stopped and listened for sounds of violence. It settled down, and I went on my way feeling like I had done my job to make sure I didn’t need to call the cops. Morbid as it sounds, if I heard that someone had been raped/beaten/murdered in that apartment the next day, I could at least report that there had been an argument.
My dad lives in government housing and it is the same story. Cops are always there, people are always fighting, drugs are always around. Why does it have to be like that just because it’s low income? I grew up in the apartments my dad lives at.
I don’t mean to sound insensitive, but a lot of people who do drugs spend all their exess money on it, and by using drugs, render themsleves unfit to work, which is probably why government housing or low income housing is all they can afford.
It’s the same way here. Government housing apartments are full of trouble. Also, it’s right next to a psych ward, so the ambulance is here all the time. I always check when I see the blue lights if the ambulance is just dropping someone off at the psych ward or picking up one of my neighbors. There’s less drugs in this one and more psychiatric cases, but I have seen a quite a few heroin addicts.
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