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Morning all - I'm shattered after being kept awake 'til nigh on 2.00am by shenanigans at a neighbours house. Druggie son came home in a taxi, went in the house and presumably didn't pay the driver. Cue loads of shouting, swearing, taxi driver blowing his horn, hammering on the house door and general mayhem. Parents appeared and joined in, but with no offer to pay the taxi fare - so the mayhem continued.
Another neighbour (ex bobby) and his wife (current bobby) came out, as their two kids had been woken by all the noise. Next thing is the arrival of a police van, followed by the culprit being removed in handcuffs (not for the first time!) and normality reigned again.
We've had a number of years with sporadic problems - the son is early 40s, has spent time locked up for arson, untaxed, untested or uninsured cars, visits from strange men carrying baseball bats who proceeded to half demolish one of said cars and on one occasion the guy himself - it's worse than East Enders.