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Originally posted by Charles22: jonhooper: I live in East Dallas, and I can vouch for that. I'm so sick and tired of being woke up on New Years Eve, by a bunch of hooligans opening up because they don't think they'll get caught. I wonder what the police would tell me if I called them and guranteed they'd have arrests on my street if they're there at midnight? My neighborhood also has a particular anomoly. There's a five point intersection down the road a bit. It's common practice at that five-way stop, for people to try and turn in "front" of you, instead of them letting the person going straight to go by, and them turning in behind you. The number of people driving around with handicapped permits hanging from their vehicle visor may be as high as 30%. There's a siren going off within the Balch Springs/Mesquite/Dallas borders (my area), must be every 30 minutes (mostly Balch Springs police giving tickets I imagine). Bottom line is, if you have people undisciplined enough to fire off guns against the law at midnight on New Year's Eve (It's not like the news outlets don't warn peopel of it being against the law either, as you know), they'll probably be doing other things that show their lack of commitment to making the community better.