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Neighborhood Watch ^[1]

Those stickers grace the main entrance to our apartment complex. It signals that another battle is to be fought against the firebugs and under, or over, sexed couples that make their way onto our stairwells at night. Both groups are a nuisance. The sex maniacs leave their used paraphernalia, used condoms, tissue, panties, and porn for the the kids to pick up. The firebugs burn various items for fun and excitement.

A few years back, we had a spat of small fires in front of the elevator on newspaper recycle days. The local arsonist was caught and that was the end of the fires. Around the same time, we experienced a boom in wayward teens depositing their broken beer bottles, porn, half eaten bentos, and used telephone cards on the sidewalk and small park where the local kids play/ed. The root cause was a newly installed public phone. This phone lasted about 4 months or so before the local residents forced NTT to remove it.

Anyway, we have neighborhood watch signs and I intend on using the stairs as often as possible to add my peering eyes to the sticker.