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How Do We Stop A Drunk Driving Neighbor?

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Location: Pennsylvania

I am posting today very frustrated with a situation that has been getting way out of hand. My grandma’s neighbor is a drunk. He frequently needs people to help him into the house because he fell down in the yard or the garage.

He has a history of drunk driving and this past spring, he smashed his car into a telephone pole driving through the shopping center of our town. Not sure what his conviction was, but he had to do like 10 days of rehab which is a fucking joke. Still has his license, still has both cars.

Last night he did something that hit way too close too home (literally). He drunkenly backed his car into through the yard, over the shrubs and the family stone right into my grandma’s front porch. He shut off and got out of his car and staggered back into his house like nothing happened. We called the police and multiple cop cars as well as a fire truck and an ambulance came. They found him crawling around on the ground “looking for his glasses” and clearly impaired.

She’s alright and the house isn’t significantly damaged but that isn’t the point. But what makes me sick is that today, he was home, and guess what, driving to Sheetz to buy beer. I’m so fed up and disgusted that this loser isn’t sitting in a cell or at the very least without the keys to his car or a license or something.

What is there that we can do? We feel essentially helpless and it’s just going to happen again. Is there anything that we can do besides putting big boulders at the front of my grandma’s yard? If he went any further the one direction he could have backed right into her living room or if he was even further over, right into the garage with my deceased grandfather’s classic corvette.

Any advice is appreciated. The drunk crashing incidents need to be taken way more seriously.

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