I've lived in this neighborhood in Spring Valley for over 20 years. My neighborhood used to be Yeshivish. It's not Chassidishe. The men rarely speak to me because I'm not a member of their group. My neighbor was doing illegal gas and sewer piping and plugged up our common drain. When I complained to their Rabbi who was new to our neighborhood, his answer was, "So we have to listen to schvartzers. Who needs a permit anyway? You don't like, so move!"
They let their children zoom on their bicycles without helmets down a steep hill which is our street. I had to enclose our yard because they let them run around on shabbos and they ran into our yard leaving their nosh wrappers all over our yard. Now they only have trashed up our street. I'm sorry to say, it looks like the stereotypical trashy street that gentiles complain of at zoning hearings. Besides the kids crashing as they zoom down the hill, the cars drive 60 mph in a 30 mph zone while the parents are calling on their cell phone. This same Rabbi told me that Hashem has special angels that protect children. I think that he lacks commensense as do the parents and the drivers.
I was fixing my roof today and saw my neighbors toddler and 6 yr old child crawling in and out of several washing machines stored in their backyard. When I told her about it when she was shmoozing with the neighbor across the street, her response was "Mind your own business. They're just having fun playing house."
I warned her that just like refrigerators, kids can get stuck in washers.
This same neighbor let her children make fires behind my house. None of the Chassidishe parents wanted to moser their children. It was only because another neighbor was a member of Spring Valley Fire Dept. and they kids were setting several fires, that they caught the kids on a video sting and sent them to mandatory fire safety training.
These parents needs some commonsense and parenting skills. Religion is no excuse for ignoring safety and the law.
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