'Shy
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We live in a secure block of flats - security door, buzzers, etc. Saturday night someone was banging at the downstairs door really late, like close to midnight, and buzzing our buzzer like mad. I'm a very paranoid person, and tbqh I never ever answer the door unless I'm expecting someone. So we ignored it, cos the bf didn't really fancy answering it either. We just *assumed* it was drunk kids or something, because we have quite weird neighbours opposite - the police came round one time a few months back searching for a missing teenager and suspected she's hiding there, but that's another story for later on.
Anyways, cos we're hermits we didn't leave the flat till Tuesday morning to go to work and noticed the downstairs door has now been smashed. Glass everywhere, like someone's put their hand through to open it from the inside. But this is the tough glass, with the bits of wire in to make it virtually unbreakable. Nutters.
Now, the thing is, going back to the police visit, runaway girl etc, we think there's about 5 kids living in this flat opposite us, the hallway stinks of smoke all the time, theres always loud music, and their front door is covered in mud for some odd reason. And every so often they leave the downstairs door off the latch by stuffing ring pulls in the lock to keep it open, which makes us suspect they dont actually live there, since they have no keys.
Hmm, anyways, not quite sure why I waffled so much, I guess I just want peoples opinions on what to do. Call the police or call the company who manage the flats? We've had a couple of letters from the management company about various things that have happened - the stair carpet got disgustingly muddy, worn, and ripped away, fire exit signs been ripped from the walls, and they do know about the latch being left off so I guess someone else has already reported it.
So, input, opinions would be appreciated on how to approach the subject, but with caution, as I'm wary the kids finding out if we reported them, because for all we know, we could come home one day to find our door smashed in :/
Anyways, cos we're hermits we didn't leave the flat till Tuesday morning to go to work and noticed the downstairs door has now been smashed. Glass everywhere, like someone's put their hand through to open it from the inside. But this is the tough glass, with the bits of wire in to make it virtually unbreakable. Nutters.
Now, the thing is, going back to the police visit, runaway girl etc, we think there's about 5 kids living in this flat opposite us, the hallway stinks of smoke all the time, theres always loud music, and their front door is covered in mud for some odd reason. And every so often they leave the downstairs door off the latch by stuffing ring pulls in the lock to keep it open, which makes us suspect they dont actually live there, since they have no keys.
Hmm, anyways, not quite sure why I waffled so much, I guess I just want peoples opinions on what to do. Call the police or call the company who manage the flats? We've had a couple of letters from the management company about various things that have happened - the stair carpet got disgustingly muddy, worn, and ripped away, fire exit signs been ripped from the walls, and they do know about the latch being left off so I guess someone else has already reported it.
So, input, opinions would be appreciated on how to approach the subject, but with caution, as I'm wary the kids finding out if we reported them, because for all we know, we could come home one day to find our door smashed in :/
