Doing battle for Hampden home

Idea, let's put all the Hampden white trash on a rocket and send them into space. They then can contribute to the NASA space exploration program. But more importantly, let's hope they run out of air and food first.

We just want our street to be better for our young kids. We do appreciate a lot of things about the neighborhood, both residents old and new. However, our children love the park in question, and when someone smeared dog poop all over the slide, we felt like our children were being disrespected. Everyone tells us, 'just go to the other park'. But we live right next to this one, the kids walk by it everyday- they think of it as 'their park'. While our kids don't yet mind the grafitti, garbage, drug dealing, and language, it's hard to tell them someone broke their swings etc. and as they get older they will start to be influenced by the atmosphere. If it can't be maintained and cleaned up, then our family would be best without it, which would be a sad statement about our community. We appreciate Joy's efforts, and hope we can find a way to help.

Lisa wrote:

These kids and their families have been in Hampden a lot longer than these yuppies. I don't know what rock Joy was hiding under when she decided to buy her house, but this is Hampden. Get used to it. Or move. There are plenty of West Baltimore families who would give anything to live in a neighborhood where all they have to worry about is someone peeing in a park. She needs some street smarts. Keep your head down, your gaze averted and mind your own business and no one will bother you.

Lutherville? Instead lady, you should trying living around the corner from that so-called "park" and tell the residents that its patrons have pride-of-place because they were there "first." It doesn't matter if a homeowning citizen has been living in Hampden for 10 seconds - he/she has the right to a clean, safe neighborhood, especially given the taxes that we all pay and the effort we invest in its improvement.

Lisa is a moron on a monumental level. Lisa, "keep(ing) your head down, your gaze averted" is what what do in a prison, not ones own neighborhood.

Lisa wrote "These kids and their families have been in Hampden a lot longer than these yuppies. I don't know what rock Joy was hiding under when she decided to buy her house, but this is Hampden. Get used to it. Or move. There are plenty of West Baltimore families who would give anything to live in a neighborhood where all they have to worry about is someone peeing in a park. She needs some street smarts. Keep your head down, your gaze averted and mind your own business and no one will bother you."

Jimmy V wrote "Stating that "gentrification...has had beneficial effects" such as "an eclectic mix of stores on West 36th Street." is a dubious point at best and shows some of the disconect of the new residents with the neighborhood they are moving in to."

I couldn't help but notice you're both from "Lutherville Timonium" so I assume there's a connection between the two of you. If not there's certainly one in your thoughts on this matter.

It would be nice if we could get past immature labels when discussing the safety and wellbeing of a community. I'm sure we're all sorry that we can't be as authentic and punk rock as "Lutherville Timonium" Lisa & Jimmy V. However, I think it's safe to assume that virtually all residents of Hampden, regardless of their income level or number of years in the area, want a safe community free of violence and an open air drug trade. I applaud Ms. Sushinsky in her efforts to make her community a better place to live and I think it would greatly benefit the neighborhood of Hampden if more people joined in her casue the way Balt-O-Matt suggested above.

As for Lisa & Jimmy V, if you want to keep it even more real than the Mean Streets of "Lutherville Timonium" there are plenty of neighborhoods in Baltimore that are as real as real can get in which you can put your formidable "street smarts" to work 24/7!!!

Go here to check out what a local thinks of Joy...

http://www.examiner.com/x-361-Baltimore-Hon-E...

I'm from Hampden and don't mind the yuppies moving in, but the stores just suck. The Honfest sucks in comparison to the old Mayfair. Why is it that the yuppies who just dropped 100k on their educated think it's cool to wear clothes that look like they got from the Goodwill. The 3 rd generation Hampdenites are just fitting in with there peers. I remember back in the 80's, with the starter jackets, grafitti, and break dancing. They don't have the money to educate themselves and don't know any better. The best you can do is buy em a beer and have a nice day.

Lisa wrote:

These kids and their families have been in Hampden a lot longer than these yuppies. I don't know what rock Joy was hiding under when she decided to buy her house, but this is Hampden. Get used to it. Or move. There are plenty of West Baltimore families who would give anything to live in a neighborhood where all they have to worry about is someone peeing in a park. She needs some street smarts. Keep your head down, your gaze averted and mind your own business and no one will bother you.

Nice one, Lisa. Because the problem exist already people should just live with it because it's there. You're the simple minded kind of jackass that keeps things from getting better. Lisa's outlook on life "Don't try to change things, just put up with them the way they are because that's the way they've been for a long time."

Wow, still getting flamed after all this time ... I'm flattered!

Lisa wrote:

Wow, still getting flamed after all this time ... I'm flattered!

Still running around with your eyes to the ground, gaze averted?

Do you feel safe yet?

NewPatriot wrote:

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Still running around with your eyes to the ground, gaze averted?
Do you feel safe yet?

Yep. Even in Hampden. Do you feel safe up there in Pennsyltucky?

Lisa wrote:

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Yep. Even in Hampden. Do you feel safe up there in Pennsyltucky?

I feel safer when I take ownership of the world around me. Part of that is making the riffraff more uncomfortable than they make me.

I live upcounty, I work and play in the City, and my respective ISPs reflect neither locale correctly. But your sardonic portrayal of two mostly beautiful states just shows that you're one of those people who get off on making the world ugly.

Good luck with your problem.

NewPatriot is right. We need to make the people that are causing the problem more afraid of us than we are of them. Though NP, it's much easier said when you only have to work in Hampden and not actually live in it.
As a Northern Baltimore County native, I know that I would be a lot more active if I could live 35 miles away when I was facing this white trash that aspires to live the black hip hop.

Others here are also correct when they say the police are useless. I've had similar experiences with the Northern District police department that others have had. They don't want to be bothered with break-ins and thefts. They have a "couldn't care less/what do you want me to do about it" type of attitude. You can report something and be lucky if anyone even shows up.

We have a methadone clinic that supports the drug users in between the "good stuff". These clinics are useless. I'm two doors from this white drug using trash. I watch it all day long when I'm home. It makes me sick.

The people of Hampden need to stand up and start demanding more. Obama can change things on the federal level, but if you want change in your neighborhood, then you've got to get involved.