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There's a limit on Lexis-Nexis use in a library? Why don't they just time-out the session instead of coming down on people with security guards? I'm moaning and groaning about all this security stuff that's spreading everywhere.
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I think it was a matter of using the law school's free Lexis-Nexis access.
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Lexis-Nexis is a very expensive database and libraries that purchase it get rights to a limited number of searches. This explains why public libraries almost never have access to it.
That being said, security guards do seem a little extreme.
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I wonder what the older gentleman was searching on Lexis-Nexis??
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From: The Stasis Zone | Registered: Jul 2003
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I really shouldn't have anything to vent about. I have my health. I have a roof over my head. I make enough money to get by. I have friends. I have a good relationship with my parents, who live only ten minutes from me, and they've helped me through some tough times in the last few years. I don't have a significant other and I don't have kids, but I'm at a point where I don't want -- and I mean REALLY DON'T WANT -- either of those things, so it's probably better that I don't.
That's why I don't understand why I feel so empty, why I, a supposed adult, often backslide into petulant teenager mode, why I take everything personally, why I worry about what other people think of me (especially when they laugh at me just because I make an effort to not look like everybody else -- especially living in a place where most people are such stupid, shallow sheep that they base their appearance on what they see on TV.) But I do. And it hurts. And it frustrates me.
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Stealth, If it's any consolation, I didn't stop caring what others...even strangers... thought of me until I was thirty. And that was because a friend who was about a year older than me said something like, "I just don't care what people think. I'm 30!" Somehow that stuck with me and I applied it to myself. I wish, when I was 19, that someone would have said the same thing about being 20. Of course, it probably wouldn't have sunk in.
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I have gotten new neighbors next door. They seem to all be young early 20-somethings.
OK so Sunday night around midnight, I go to bed. I can hear the TV from next door. However, the white noise from my fan blocks it enough so I can sleep. (when I woke up briefly at 5am, I could still hear the TV going). One of them also plays rap music loud during the day.
Last night (Monday), I again go to bed at midnight. I again hear the TV going. This time the fan doesn't block the sound enough. So I get up and get dressed and head next door. I assume that since I am on the third floor, the TV is on the third floor.
As I approach the house, I see a young woman entering it. So, I go up and ring the doorbell. I can hear people on the third floor deck. I ring several times, but no one comes down. A guy opens the door to the first floor. SO I explain to him that I am from next door, that there is a TV being played too loudly, and I can't sleep because of it. He doesn't say anything, but I leave thinking maybe he will go up and say something.
Nope. So after a few minutes, I go back down. I ring the third floor bell again. This time two young guys (I'd guess around 18-19) come down. I again explain who I am and why I was there. The one in front goes "Oh the TV's too loud." I say "thanks" and head home. After about 5 minutes, the TV is still going at the same volume. So back I go, but this time I take my phone with me & with the number for the police on it.
I ring the bell. This time a young woman comes down. She answers the door with a "yeah what do you want?" I say again that the TV is too loud. She responds with "I can watch my TV in my home when I get home from work. Call the police." "Maybe I'll call the police and say you are harassing me." So, I step down off the porch and proceed to call the police.
She starts talking to the people with her. "oh look the fat idiot is doing it" & "My uncle's a Boston City police officer, so it'll be OK." To me "Don't you know that the police have murders and fires and robberies to deal with?" Pretending to be me "Oh the TV is too loud". Eventually they go back inside, And I remained waiting for the police. (side item: She is smoking and flicks the butt onto the sidewalk. The sidewalk in front of their house is littered with cigarette butts. I also noticed that there were 5 names over the 2nd floor mailbox and 4 names over the third floor mailbox. And all the mailboxes were open)
So I am thinking "Great! Who knows what these people will do to me after this?"
In about 15 minutes, the police do arrive. You could hear the TV from the street. So I give my story to the police. I stay on the front porch to my house while the two police officers go and rng her bell. She is more courteous to them. They go up into her apartment. They come back down in a minute and go in the area between the two houses. They shine a flashlight up to the second floor window. Apparently the TV was on the second floor. The police ask her if she knows who is in the middle room on the second floor. She says something about it being "Derek's room". She is also on the sidewalk now and I ask her, "You can hear it now, can't you?" She didn't say anything.
Eventually the police get in and the TV is shut off.
The woman then says to me "I told you it wasn't our TV." To which I replied "No you didn't. You just said to call the police and then you started insulting me." The police officer just goes "Well it is off now. and If this happens again, just call us." The woman kind of apologizes. I also kind of apologize by saying "I wasn't trying to bother you, just trying to get that TV turned down."
Anyway, all these neighbors seem young and I am hoping that means they are transient and will be gone by the end of summer.
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I was thinking of registering at rottenneighbor.com just to report them.
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More neighbor problems, but this time from the other side. About 3 houses down there is an autistic boy. And at times he will wail loudly for hours on end. I can hear him now even though the windows are closed. I feel sorry for him and his parents, but goodness is it annoying.
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