I grew up in one
It was basically just a street, where a new (new in the late 70s) apartment block neighborhood offered very affordable apartments. Bam, all the poor people move in, so, anecdotes I recall
1. The daughter who shoved her dads face in the oven. Ambulance and police arrived. We watched dad come out w a towel around his head.
2. Johnny The Junkie, runs past mom and other moms when theyre tanning. Cops storm behind, and they point the direction for finding Johnny. Fuck Johnny.
3. Woman walks down the street w a revolver to her head, a gathering of kids follow her curiously. Situation is difused.
4. Police find an enormous arsenal of weapons and ammunition in the basement of a friend of mine. His dad was a collector.
5. Armed robbery in the gas station, someone fires off a sawn-off shotgun, and manages to destroy most of the tobacco they intended to steal. I happen to know the perpetrator.
6. Armed robbery in the bank, small ammounts of money was taken. Fuckin amateurs.
7. Kids found a suitcase with a submachinegun and medium ammounts of cash, sloppily hidden in the woods, likely the score from the bank robbery. Again, fucking amateurs.
8. Car in the woods, full of bullet holes from an automatic rifle. Someone had fun.
9. Johnny The Junkie, walks off his balcony, in an attempt to go shop at the grocery store, falls 4 floors. Ambulance arrives.
10. Fire in the apartment of an African family, my mom calls the fire department. A toddler burns to death, and the mother leaps from 3rd floor, screaming in shock and agony, before dying on the helicopter ride to Bergen (special burn unit). This could happen anywhere - what could not is the systematic bullying of the two surviving boys, "Mom-killer! Mom-killer!" as all the local, racist, jobless fat-fuck-parents told their kids that the fire was started by the two lil black boys. One of the two boys is a hardened criminal by now, pity, because he - like many people - are good "deep down".
11. Son attacks mothers apartment with axe. Police arrive. We watch the police ambush from the neighboring balconies, they climb over and seize him. Good times.
12. Numerous lawn fires, playground fires, garage fires, garbage fires etc. Usually the same 1-2 perps, some "problem kids".
13. Picket fences were systematically broken, as if someone made it their life's mission to sabotage and break every metre of every fence in the entire neighborhood.
14. Ever since new lawns were planted in the early 90s, "problem kids" kicked the soil around, and prevented lawns from growing, for years on end. Lawns probably still don't grow there. A pavillion was built for the troubled teens. It was smashed to bits. A skateboard-ramp was then built - and smashed to bits. Followed by a football-field (soccer for you Americans) where everything was not only bolted in place, but rooted 3-4 metres into the ground. This was so vigorously attempted smashed, that the rooted pieces today wobble widely, but are still not unstuck from the ground.
15. Supermarket burglarized on numerous occasions. We typically knew who did it, cus they were undiscrete idiots.
