living with other people can have it's interesting times

[derien]

The rails are being replaced on the train track, and last night our neighbor, T, and his son, were out there hitting the new rails (which are not yet pegged down) with chunks of two-by-four because it makes a cool sound. It IS a really cool sound, you can hear the vibration zing down to the end and back. :)


And early this morning Hawk managed to get himself frisked and handcuffed because he decided to take a walk at 4AM. He woke up early, as he often does, and couldn't get back to sleep, nervous about a test today, so he went down to the park and then up into the parking garage and did some singing (practicing an old one our parents taught us), then walked along the main street. He tells the story quite funny, I know I can't replicate that, but nutshell is he was the only person the cop saw on the street when responding to an alarm going off in a store, and he was wearing a dark hoodie and sweat pants so he must have looked the part. A young cop, maybe 25, by himself and really nervous, voice quavering, Hawk was having a hard time not laughing at him. But he got frisked ("all down in my junk and everything!"), handcuffed (really tight, the marks were still there later in the morning when we went for a walk down the railroad track to check the rail harmonics ourselves - and that kind of pissed me off, I want to go down to the police station and shake someone a little for marking up my little brother's wrists) and set in the back of the car until the guy could figure out what was going on with the alarm. He didn't see the glass between the back and front seats, so he asked "Hey, I thought you guys had a window back here?" "Oh. Could you get out again?" The window is hinged and was flipped down. By the time they parted things were pretty cordial; Hawk told the cop that now he's almost 40 he can now check that experience off his to do list. :)

He's come close to getting arrested before - cops stopped him in Orono for doing Daoist meditation walking in the middle of the night. "We got a report of someone freaking out on the street." But they weren't following up an alarm that time.

Oh, though, as an addendum, apparently there's been a number of daylight house breakins, lately. Eor's response to that was "And they pick you up in the middle of the night for a store alarm - why?"

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[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, cops don't like that kid of thing, or lying in the street because the cobbles feel good on your back, as M found out. At least Hawk (and M in this case) was sober and polite and was let go! He could have been drunk and indignant (this has happened to plenty of people I know too) and got himself in trouble.

I'd like to hear that rail track noise.