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Dear 5bumbum,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Would you care to share with us who you are?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Alan</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 9, 2007, at 10:06 AM, <a href="mailto:5bumbum@excite.com">5bumbum@excite.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="100%"><font size="2" color="black">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."<br> <br>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:<br> <br>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."<br> <br>2. Used condoms and hypodermic syringes littering my street, late-night prostitution activity, and open-air drug deals.<br> <br>3. I go into my local donut shop and the vestibule reeks of urine. <br> <br>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.<br> <br>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?<br> <br>6. The once-wonderful Park Tanglewood apartments are now, in my opinion, nothing short of a sleazy tenement. Ditto for the Oglethorpe House.<br> <br>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.<br> <br>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).<br> <br> <br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br></font></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><hr><font size="2" face="geneva"><b>Join Excite! - <a href="http://www.excite.com" target="_blank">http://www.excite.com</a></b><br>The most personalized portal on the Web!</font><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">TownTalk mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To post to the list, send mail to <a href="mailto:TownTalk@riverdale-park.org">TownTalk@riverdale-park.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:TownTalk-request@riverdale-park.org">TownTalk-request@riverdale-park.org</a> is for automated subscription processing only</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://riverdale-park.org/mailman/listinfo/towntalk">http://riverdale-park.org/mailman/listinfo/towntalk</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For more information about Riverdale Park, visit <a href="http://www.ci.riverdale-park.md.us">http://www.ci.riverdale-park.md.us</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>