Life At The Higgins Has It’s Moments…
The one huge problem at Higgins is lack of (secure) parking- there are a few lucky folks who have parking in the building, but they are very few. Most park behind the building in a “Joe’s Lot” that leaves much to be desired. For awhile there were a rash of break-ins and it was suspected to be an “inside job”- parking attendants tipping off the bad guys as to what car to break into, and somehow, no one heard the noise or some car alarms (or ignored them).
So this e-mail arrives today, sent to the building mailing list- someone is not happy…
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Dear Trailer Trash-
Please stop throwing your cigarette butts and fucking Hot Pockets out of your (South side) windows onto parked cars. I found your pathetic party favors on my car this morning and was not fucking amused. You are white trash, plain and simple (even if you’re not “white”, per se.
Could you not pollute the entire world with your trashy fucking tendencies? You disgust me and if I find out who is throwing garbage onto parked cars, I will - and YES this is a threat - chop your fucking head off.
Living here is like a cross between a frat house and the Midnight-fucking- Mission. Grow up.
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Another beautiful day in the neighborhood 
As I’ve mentioned before, 90% of the people in this building are cool, interesting professionals. But there are 10% that I don’t know how the hell they afford to live here (6 to a loft maybe?), are disruptive and obnoxious, and look like they belong at the Mission…
Wow - keep it classy LA!
August 24th, 2008 at 3:45 pmB- it’s funny, the sender sent the e-mail from regular e-mail acct- a known resident. I’ve been contacted by the police for less of a “terrorist threat” before… but I can empathize for sure!
August 24th, 2008 at 4:05 pmThe email is over the top, but I can sympathize. There were tenants in my building who were tossing empty cans off the roof from the pool area and who destroyed the ping-pong table in the basement. Former residents–they were evicted. Like you say, 90% of the people in our building are great but it’s the 10% that kills you.
August 24th, 2008 at 4:47 pmLi- I remember reading about your loft’s pool getting trashed (yuk!)- that would happen here too, I’ll bet, by the “10%”. I’m just a little surprised by the “threat” as I have just *said* something like that and almost went to jail… time will tell.
August 24th, 2008 at 4:57 pm…although the writer was calling someone “white trash” and I was calling someone a “towel head” which is much worse in this P.C. post-9/11 era…
August 24th, 2008 at 5:00 pmThat 10% may be Section 8.
I call it “Section 8 Ball.”
A lot of apt. bldgs have ‘em.
While you pay 2K a month to live there, some mutt is living there for practically free, courtesy of your tax dollars.
Urban socialism at it’s finest!
August 25th, 2008 at 11:46 amOfficer- Higgins is owners, no “Section 8 ballers”. It’s still weird some of the poeple I see going up the elevator, and we constantly get the stanless steel doors of inside elevator “tagged” with gang crap scratched in it… I can just imagine what it’s like in buildings where it’s renters only…
August 25th, 2008 at 3:58 pm