Maine-Truly the way life should be! (Bangor, Falmouth: crimes, buying, living in)

[island mermaid]

These all remind me of the police blotters in The Forecaster. I've read several editions of them from all over the state. Especially with the woman calling to report her sons bad attitude, so bad he moved her car! That cracked me up.

"Woman calls to report two men walking down the road. Police report states they found two men walking down the road!"

I've brought copies of The Forecaster back here for friends to read what some towns report as crime at home. They laugh so hard.

there is real crime/ gang type behavior and drug activity in Maine, we are all aware of that too.

[elston]

The police blotter in this week's newspaper:

* Village school reported an oppossum outside the kitchen window that appeared to be hovering there.
*Caller learned that their daughter had a party while they were out of state. There were items missing from the house......
*a suspicious vehicle in the area containing a mattress and sleeping bags....
*a stroller with a microwave in it sitting at the side of the road.
*a vehicle parked illegally; the owner had been unable to make it up the hill and walked home.

There were a few reports of residential break ins and bad checks....but this is certainly tame compared to the crime reports I was used to in my previous address..that included shootings and bank robberies and assaults on police etc.

[dramamama6685]

Mollysmiles and retired, I hope the stores were able to retrieve their $$.

Sheep in the orad and flipping off police.. I can live with those. Our smal town(under 20K) actually had an armed robbery of a gas station 2 weeks ago!

[forest beekeeper]

The Penobscot times has had Police Logs with complaints of loud barking dogs.

Deer on the sidewalk.

Drunks walking down the street.

There was one with a couple would was going through a divorce, they were both drunk calling each other and cussing each other out on the phone. So the police talked to both parties and recorded LONG stories of who the other spouse had done them 'wrong'. It took up the better part of 2 pages of the newspaper.

Drunks when they are pulled over, often will say the funniest things too.

The Penobscot times is just trying to fill pages, so they print it all.

[NJ2ME]

I am looking forward to when we can finally move up for good and some of these are what I'll be seeing/reading in the news!

I live right outside of Philadelphia, PA in Camden County NJ (this county is the home of Camden, NJ - ties in place with Detroit often for the worst City in the USA). My husband is a Camden County Sheriff's officer at the court house in Camden... Between the news around here and what he witnesses and sees, we are going to love watching the news once in Maine. Things like that can't even make it to our news, because its so packed with such bad stuff. Infact, not even all murders, kidnappings etc from the whole area make it on the news. There are just to many.

We are counting down until I graduate college...

[retiredtinbender]

What do ya mean NJ? Camden is the garden part isn't it? Nice, quiet, peacefull? I was stationed at McGuire in Wrightstown for 9+ years. Camden and Trenton always made me nervous. A lot more so than going to Philly. I used to love the cheesesteaks and pretzels on Vine St right outside the Franklin Inst.

[tcrackly]

Maine is pretty peaceful, for sure, that is, if everything is all right on the homefront. We still have those nasty spikes of cabin fever domestic crime in the winter!!

[frogandtoad]

We moved to Maine "from away" and I HATED it. I mean, it was so horrible I have tried to shut it out of my mind. On the other hand, I have good friends, and family, who live in Maine and love it. They would never move anywhere else. So you've got it right--one person's utopia is NOT another person's!

Here's what I hated: not how cold it was but how long winter lasted; once winter was over and the warm sun finally shone there were black fly everywhere. It was miserable. I am "outdoorsy" but hated being out in "spring". Then the black fly left and giant mosquitos and the deer fly settled in for the summer. For a couple of weeks vacation it was great, but never ever could you pay me enough to live there again!!

Now for me, living out West is wonderful and it's hard for me to imagine how anyone could want to live in Maine when you could have 4 seasons, instead of 2. You can have a hot summer with NO bugs, a beautiful fall (I admit Maine's fall is gorgeous too), a snowy winter which ends when the calendar says it's spring, and a spring which is not locally known as "mud season" but instead is cool temps, and again no bugs.

And yes, there are actually places outside of Maine with little crime. I will admit I think Maine is a wonderful place to raise children, but I hated it so much I couldn't stay to do that.

My point is not to bash Maine--I've heard all the "pros" from my friends/family. Just that it is most certainly not some little secret that people would swarm if they knew. It just isn't everyone's cup of tea.

Originally Posted by K-Luv

Read the threads....after thread....after thread; many people 'from away' get it. However, one person's idea of Utopia is not another's. I have lived in major cities all of my life except for a stint in Kansas and my time spent here so far. A person's Utopia is a personal item and just because someone from DC or NY City or Seattle don't realize the Maine Utopia that you (and many others) realize does not mean that you are turned onto to something that they are missing out on. In their eyes, maybe it is you who does not 'get it'. Just a thought.
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[frogandtoad]

Although this is no doubt true, I used to get the Penobscot Times and the Castine Patriot and there was more than that in it very often. A lot of DUI, there were a whole load of pumpkins stolen from the nursery in Blue Hill one year (so now she has to lock them up at night), etc. I'm not saying the area is high crime by any means, but there are more problems than barking dogs.

Originally Posted by forest beekeeper

The Penobscot times has had Police Logs with complaints of loud barking dogs.

Deer on the sidewalk.

Drunks walking down the street.

There was one with a couple would was going through a divorce, they were both drunk calling each other and cussing each other out on the phone. So the police talked to both parties and recorded LONG stories of who the other spouse had done them 'wrong'. It took up the better part of 2 pages of the newspaper.

Drunks when they are pulled over, often will say the funniest things too.

The Penobscot times is just trying to fill pages, so they print it all.

[forest beekeeper]

Originally Posted by frogandtoad

Although this is no doubt true, I used to get the Penobscot Times and the Castine Patriot and there was more than that in it very often. A lot of DUI, there were a whole load of pumpkins stolen from the nursery in Blue Hill one year (so now she has to lock them up at night), etc. I'm not saying the area is high crime by any means, but there are more problems than barking dogs.

You are right.

There are DUIs, and smashed pumpkins, and moose to vehicle accidents, and knocked over mailboxes, turkeys in the road too.