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Reasons I'm glad I don't live on North Pleasant anymore. Or in North, for that matter... Here.
posted by Brian @ 9:22 PM
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brian, in transition
I hate the word "blog," by the way.
I hate the word "blog," by the way.
Reasons I'm glad I don't live on North Pleasant anymore. Or in North, for that matter... Here.
posted by Brian @ 9:22 PM
3 comments
3 Comments:
Brian,
Until they discover a way to transmit falsetto singing over the internet (it will happen), blogging is the next best thing.
I also kind of hate the word blog.
Why again did we ever want to live on North Pleasant? I can't seem to remember our reasoning on that one.
I seem to recall a decision-making process filled with drama, compromise, so many tours, and Bill Reynolds' son. Reasoning never entered the picture.
At around 2:30 Monday morning, Oberlin police responded to a call from the area of North Pleasant Street from residents complaining that a man with a gun had fired at them.
The complainants said they had been playing their 500-pound organ with Louis Armstrong on their porch. They reported having thrown some bottles, whiffle balls, dirty dishes and car parts into and, possibly, across the street. A few minutes later, a man dressed in a blue sweatshirt in a dodge pickup truck approached them.
He accused the friends of throwing the items at him and of popping his tires. The students denied throwing anything at him, but admitted to loud screaming and shoddy landlordship. They denied that there was anyone in the area when they were throwing bottles, except possibly some small children from the Boys and Girls Club across the street. They told him repeatedly to leave. He did so finally, but with mumbled threats involving dry wall and garbage cans.
The three complainants do not agree on the man’s exact wording. Their accounts include: “You are gonna pay, RENT.” “I will get you a snow shovel, you’ll see,” and “Hi, this is Chris.”
“There was this weird back-and-forth,” said Brian Zeller, one of the residents. “Honestly, he just sounded like some drunk, crazy guy and I didn’t think twice about it when he bought all of Billy Reynolds properties.”
“We’ve run into some pretty kooky guys living out here,” agreed one of his housemates, Chris Burns.
Five to ten minutes later, the man returned in his pickup truck.
“I noticed him down the road,” said one of the students. “I could tell it was him, because his name was painted all over his truck. What an asshole. He had mentioned that he used to own a carpet business, which gave me kind of a creepy feeling.”
He was slurring his words, yelling profanities. The man then brought up a 12-gauge double-barrel shot-gun and fired at the porch. "It was obvious he had fired on the house before." Another housemate added.
“After he pulled the gun it was just shock and disbelief,” continued the student. “You don't really expect shotguns, but then again, this is Ohio.”
Then the man swung the gun in his direction and he ran around to the back of the house, possibly looking for a fire pit, but returned to the front of the house with tools from his truck.
“I expected him to be frantic and running away,as I was threatening him with my 6-month old food from the fridge...” the resident continued. “But he sort off just stood there on our porch, calling us f-ing punks like before. I didn’t expect him to be calm about it."
The assailant finally got back into his truck, but not before he let one last verbal barb fly.
"None of this would have happened if you understood routine maintenance."
An ongoing investigation is being conducted by Oberlin Police, with similar occurances on East College Street.
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