(A post in conjunction with SharkBoy)
She’s been outside our window for over two years now. Originally two years ago she use to do a sing song “Cha cha chaaange please!” in a weird high pitched screech. These days she’s move on to wordless rants. I think she’s unable to control herself and because of the attention she gets from the yelling, she gets more money/food. Which just makes her stick around.
In the winter and cooler days we don’t hear her with our shut windows. Our apartment doesn’t have AC so we’re forced to keep them open and we can hear her as if she was in our living room, waking up the dead. You can see that in the video she gets pretty loud. That’s tame compared to some nights.
One night in May she started at 5pm and didn’t finish until I went out onto the street to tell her to move on at 3am. She was horse and could barely say “Ok. Sorry.”
We’ve asked her to be quiet. We’ve asked her to move on, even just down the street. We’ve lied to her and asked her to stay quiet because she wakes up “the baby”. Every time, she’s good for about 15 minutes and then she starts up again. Recently I’ve emailed Pam McConnell, counselor for Cabbagetown with regards to helping us deal with her. No response.
Lately we’ve started to call the police. One night we discovered through Toronto Police Dispatch that our neighbors have been calling police for some time about her too. The police for the most part didn’t come or missed her completely because she moves up and down the street a lot. However, she was taken away one night last week and then back again 2 days later.
Once, she told SharkBoy that she lives in Parkdale but likes Cabbagetown because the begging money is better. She has had on a different outfit every day this week, so I hardly think she’s homeless.
I feel bad for calling the police but after more than two years we’re at the end of our rope.
