rant n raves post on craigslist about living next to tweakers and the hopelessness will resonate with many

This is a post by someone who should not have to deal with this situation.

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 Tweakers next door to me are stealing power (Eureka)


I'm not going to post any addresses or any other personal info for legal reasons. It's damn stupid to bring extra trouble your way via the internet.

These scumbags that I have to share a wall with in this four-plex are definitely tweakers. When they moved in, they seemed normal enough: Husband, wife, 4 year-old daughter. Over the past couple months, I've heard nothing but noise at all hours, including screaming, broken glass, kids crying, thumping against the walls, threats of violence, loud rock & country music, whirring appliances that stay on for hours uninterrupted (vacuum cleaner, what sounds like a power drill), and more. They've taken in floppers who definitely aren't sleeping anywhere else, along with their kids. I've been told to "get the fuck out" of the shared backyard while they're (the floppers, not the tweakers who rent the place) sitting around back there. There are bicycle bits and holes all over the backyard lawn, now.

Last month--at 1:00 AM--I heard thumping on the walls, tweakers screeching at eachother, and then pounding on my front door. I looked through the peephole, and it was this shirtless, skinheaded geeter standing there with his chest puffed out. He wasn't just pounding- he was punching the door, and he looked pissed off. I saw him tell the person in the other door (out of my sight through the hole) to "wait for this fool, he's home, we wait on him..."
Fuck that. I'm not opening the door for any of those people. He eventually went back into the apartment with the rest of the scum.

I get my power bill a few days ago and it's way fucking higher than it was before these shitheads moved in next to me. I turned off the main breaker in my home, then went to check the meter, and sure enough, it's still moving, and moreso than the minimal amount that is always running.

On top of that, they saw me checking the meter, told me to get the fuck away from it because their "power was none of my business". I told them I was only looking mine, and they kept screaming at me, anyway.

Why haven't I called the cops? Because they won't do shit. I've seen them show up to these situations a hundred times (obvious tweaky shit in plain view) and they don't arrest anyone. They browbeat and talk around eachother until the EPD warns them and then they leave, leaving me--the only person who would've called--alone with them. And these people are gacked enough to start trouble over nothing.

I've been trying to talk with PG&E. I was already looking for a new place to live before they moved in, haven't had any luck. It seems like I'm stuck here, but I'm not going to put up with this shit, with tweakers banging on my door, or taking over the property. I'm not paying for their stolen power. I'm not listening to a symphony of FM radio and appliance motors, to the beat of slamming doors and thumping walls.

Can't move, can't call the cops, but I can't take this.