[RP TownTalk] Our Town

[Alan Thompson and Sarah Wayland]

Dear 5bumbum,

Would you care to share with us who you are?

	Alan

On Dec 9, 2007, at 10:06 AM, 5bumbum at excite.com wrote:

> I've been a longtime resident of the Riverdale/Hyattsville area  
> (about 37 years). Man, I've got to tell you -- boy, are times a- 
> changin'....I can remember a time when streets were clean, and  
> there was legitimate business activity going on, and when you told  
> people you lived over in Riverdale/Hyattsville, they didn't look at  
> you funny and go, "....Oh."
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> When people ask me where I live now, I have to generalize it and  
> say "College Park." And that's pretty sad, when you're kinda  
> ashamed to tell people where you really live. Here's a couple of  
> examples of what I'm talking about:
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> 1. I drive up my street in Riverdale and see a guy taking a leak in  
> the bushes. I glance at him and he simply gives me that silly  
> little grin and goes about his "business."
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> 2. Used condoms and hypodermic syringes littering my street, late- 
> night prostitution activity, and open-air drug deals.
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> 3. I go into my local donut shop and the vestibule reeks of urine.
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> 4. Filthy parking lots...so filthy that I feel like I need to throw  
> away my shoes (even though they're brand new) after I walk on them.
>
> 5. The Kenilworth Avenue corridor is a disgrace. Hundreds upon  
> hundreds of illegal immigrants and ne'er-do-wells. They love to  
> cross the street in the middle of traffic, too -- how many more  
> times will I have to slow down and/or swerve before I accidentally  
> hit somebody?
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> 6. The once-wonderful Park Tanglewood apartments are now, in my  
> opinion, nothing short of a sleazy tenement. Ditto for the  
> Oglethorpe House.
>
> 7. Gee, I feel like there's some kind of Underground Railroad going  
> on every time I look out my window, what with the constant comings  
> and goings of buses, vans, and trailers full of immigrants whose  
> legal status is clearly a question mark. These people throw chicken  
> bones, beer cans, and other trash over my fence and also in the  
> street, and I'm sick of it.
>
> I got a message for you people out there who are talking about  
> providing convenient porta-potties and possible job centers for  
> these people who have no legitimate or legal reason for being here:  
> I'm sick and tired of shelling out my tax dollars to a state,  
> county, and a town that is absolutely deaf, dumb, and blind and  
> obviously doesn't care about me. So to you I say, wake up and smell  
> the frijole beans, folks....let's round 'em up and move 'em out now  
> before it's too late (which it may already be).
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