Dear Locust Point residents,

I have joined this forum to stress the problems we overlook here within our neighborhood and want to work with you to make Locust Point a better place.  Locust Point is fortunate enough to have development by way of Turner Development, the Chesapeake Paper Board Factory, and the future tide point expansion.  We have over a billion dollars pumped into our small community, we pay high property taxes, yet we fail to use the services we pay for in our community to weed out what only makes our neighborhood less attractive. 

The underlying issue here in locust point, which can simply be compared to racial divide, is the tension between those who have been long time locust point residents and those who have moved here in the past few years; who collectively and non playfully are referred to as "yuppies".  If you are a young man or woman who went to college, worked hard to get a degree, and now have a well paying job, and you live in locust point, you are a yuppie.  You are looked at as spoiled and the basic assumption is made that you were given what you have by mommy and daddy (which mind you, is completely fine by me).  I am not a fascist, big get, or a communist.  I don't believe all those who have lived in locust point for quite a while, feel this way, so from now on I'll refer to this segment of locust point as "dirt balls" (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable...dictionary.com).

Dirt balls are the people you see give you snide looks when you get out of your nice car or when walk into a "local" neighborhood bar; which seems to be a cesspool for them.  They dislike you very much, and in fact they would do anything to make your stay here in locust point more difficult.  They assault residents, destroy property, loiter on random peoples stoops, and break into cars and homes to take goods to the pawn shop on light st so they can get their rock, or pack of cigarettes from machines in these local bars.  Most of the dirt balls who rob and steal are kids under 18 who feel that until their 18th birthday they will exploit the legal system and ultimately you.

The underlying issue here are the parents of these minors.  They fill their children's head with this social divide, and in turn the children who barely go to school and are outside your home at 12 midnight on school nights are taught to dislike yuppies, steal from them with no recourse or punishment, an will entice violence in hopes of opening up a lawsuit that can land them a check to pay their child support, feed their addiction, and show their children how much of a piece of trash they really are.  This has to stop. We need to step up and weed the dirt balls out.

This post is not an effort for you to dislike the all long time locust pointers or even dirt balls for that matter.  This is a plea from one locust pointer to the next, that when you see a drug deal on cooksie st, or a kid looking suspicious, or see a kid walking into a bar to buy cigarettes, call the police.  Have the police down here so much, after all our 5k in property taxes do pay for it, that the mother and father dirt balls don't let their mini dirtballs out on the street.  Hopefully the ma and pa dirt balls will pack up shop and move their trash to Pasadena, but at least they wont be here.  I want the social divide gone and want someone who moves into this neighborhood not to have to feel awkward around the 5 minors hanging out on the corner next to 500k town homes.

For the interested, you can obtain a listing of anyone's Maryland criminal/court history at:

http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/inquiry/inquiry-index.jsp

You might be suprised at how many of our neighbors have been convicted of crimes.  If you see crime, call the cops.  Many of the people who've been locked up probably don't want to go back anytime soon.  Alerting them that you have indeed called the police tends to fix a lot of attitudes here.

Its nice to see the number of police who live here, and the lawyers moving in lately.