Muhlenberg College- Another Year In The Bag

Thursday, May 1st is the last day of classes at Muhlenberg college. Exams begin on Monday, May 5th, 2014. So why not throw one last great big blow out!

The house was a rockin'!
Last night (Saturday, April 26, 2014) the scholars next door hosted yet another party. This one for about 90 of their closest friends. Even though they finally killed the blaring stereo at exactly 4:13am, the party lasted until about 4:30am.

Now you may ask why didn't we call campus security or the police? Well I'll tell you why. Neither of them cited anyone who attended any of the parties that we called in for years. No one was cited for noise. No one was checked for underage drinking. Since there's no price to pay for their behavior I interpret this as a kind of implied consent which further encourages this kind of behavior. In addition, since this is the end of the year what the hell do they care. Their classes are already nearly in the bag and soon they'll be heading home.

Paybacks can be a bitch!
Paybacks can be the kind of risks I'm not willing to take because we were watching our 7 month twin grand daughters overnight while their mother worked. In short these kids don't give a shit. Because they've never been held accountable and having a few weeks left one can only imagine what kind of antics they could come up with.

Our twin homes have a common sunroom porch roof. In the past a dozen or so were sitting outside our bedroom window raising hell well beyond midnight. My cameras caught them urinating and puking off the roof, backyard and their front porch in the past. Ten or twenty stomp their feet on the floor next door at the same time for some stupid reason or another. Screaming and yelling as loud as they can is the norm at these parties. If all of these were the norm can you only imagine what would happen if they got a bug up their ass because we aggravated them the last two or three weeks before the end of the school year while we are babysitting the twins two or three days a week !

The police haven't cited them for either noise or underage drinking. The college nor the landlord clamped down on them over the last 24 years or so either. So what kind of message are they sending? That's it's Ok to act like assholes? How many more responsible residents does the city government of Allentown intend to force out by ignoring them?

AND..
Don't give me that shit about moving close to the college. We live over a block away from campus in what once was a extremely quite neighborhood. When we bought this home the one next door to ours was not a rental. We spent nearly all our assets with the intention of making this our final home purchase to retire in. Meaning we can't afford to get out of this trap based on what's left of my 401k + social security checks. How the hell were we supposed to know two years after buying ours a investor would come along and buy next door and rent it to so-called college students some 24 years ago!

What pisses me off the most is thinking about the attitude these kids have regarding these homes. To them it's just a stop along the way. A place to party and hang out for four years without regard to respecting neither Allentown nor it's residents. They then move on leaving the place a mess in their wake. Four of my immediate neighbors are also retirees. They also worked their whole lives to reach this standard of living. Then come along these little snots who treat these homes as if they are some sort of tenement housing units.

Trust me, they look down on us and the city of Allentown as fools and could care less about any of us. They've demonstrated this time and again. We neighbors once mowed their lawn which they ignored. Took out the bags of trash they stacked outside their back porch. Picked up the beer cups blown on our lawns after their noisy/rowdy all night parties. Ignored them urinating (even in daylight) on our flowerbeds. Driving over lawns. Illegal parking. No one ever reported them for not recycling one damned bin of any sort for almost 24 years. We also shoveled sidewalks when it snowed. All in the hopes of setting an example to them. In return they've demonstrated by their actions they thought somehow it was owed to them and were above it all.

It may be said of them they are young and foolish, but what excuse does the college or the city of Allentown have for their failure to enforce their own rules and ordinances? I don't know who I should be more pissed with. Them or the city? How about both?

It's a damned shame the city of Allentown doesn't take a greater interest in retaining what few decent folks remain who pay their taxes and don't cause trouble. Instead Allentown seems to think it can attract a better class of people w/o first supporting the few left that it already has. How hard would be (over the last 24 years) to send a message that Allentown won't tolerate those who drift through our city, whether it be students or adults, who have no interests in the betterment of our community?

Here's one guarantee that I will make. It may not be the next party or the one after, but one day one of them will result in a death from drinking or some sort of violence. It's not a matter of if, but rather a matter of when. It isn't like the college nor city police weren't contacted by we or one of our neighbors. No matter how they may pretend they weren't aware of it, this most certainly is not the case.

In the meantime I fear for our twin baby granddaughters that none of these should happen while we are tending them for our daughter while she has to work. This is not the way I want it to be for either my wife, myself or they having to live next to these assholes renting aside of us, The danger with having 90 irresponsible kids drinking, smoking all night long till 4:30am and who don't care about any of that is a constant fear. So is living in a city and with a college that basically ignores those concerns as if there's no foundation for them. Hell even nuisance bars in Allentown with far fewer patrons got more attention.