first rule of fight club

"you'll love the area" they said. "It's a really great street" they said.
And it was until yesterday.

My quiet little street has gone a bit mental the last couple of days.
Yesterday I was in the middle of getting a quote for some electrical work when the shouting started from the street. The pounding on next door's aluminium siding sounded almost like it was my house being pounded.
More shouting and door pounding.
The electrician was all for calling the police.
So I went out to see what was going on. Went round to the back door where the noise was shouting and sounds of things breaking was coming from.
I could hear the 17 year old daughter saying stuff like 'just leave' and 'stop it' so I knocked on the back door.
I still wasn't sure what was going on and who else was in the house, so when she looked out the window at me and then walked away I thought there was more than just her and (what was becoming clear from the shouting) her boyfriend or maybe ex.
I knocked again and said 'is everything ok?'
Dumb question, right? they are yelling and screaming at each other and things are being smashed.
Next-door have been great since we moved in, the mother is lovely, has been chaty and even given us lots of plants for our garden, we have gone to local bars with the son to watch the World Cup, even the dog is adorable. But the daughter, not so much.
Barely get a hello out of her.
And now when she finally opens the door to me, with the boyfriend standing right behind her, I wonder what the hell I'm going to say.
So I stick with my tried and tested 'is everything ok? do you need any help?'
'Everything is fine' she tells me.
'Are you sure, because it doesn't really sound like it'
'yes, it's fine' and starts to close the door.
'Ok, but you know where I am if you need me' I say.
'yeah, it's fine' she says and closes the door.
I go back to my house to find the electrician on the phone to the police.
I make an attempt to reassure him that it's not too bad.
The row next door has quietened down.
He finishes his quote (a shed load of money!) and leaves.
Things next door get a bit noisier and some more stuff gets broken and then just as I am debating with myself (and pessimistically trying to think if I could describe the boyfiend if I had to) what to do the (ex)boyfriend comes storming out of the house with a fair amount of blood on his face.
Just as the police car pulls up.
The two police officers stop him and want to know what's going on.
I went back in my house just as the daughter is coming out her back door.
The police put the boyfriend in the back of the car, handcuffed.
The oplice talk to both of them for a while. Then, when they were both talking to him I went back outside to explain to the daughter that I hadn't phoned the police, it was the electrician.
She stood there and listened to me explain that and just kept up with the 'it's alright' line. The police officer came back over and gave me a look so I expained that I lived next door and about the electrician calling it in.
He told me that she had called them herself.
Now I have a question -
Why did she stand there and let me feel guilty that her boyfriend was handcuffed in the back of a police car and not tell me she had called them herself?
So, I walked away.

Today, she was having a row with her mother because she wanted to know what court he was in and her mother was a bitch for not telling her and she might never see him again.


In an unrelated incident some woman was running up and down the street this morning shouting ' love me, love me'.
Iain says she was saying 'fluffy, fluffy' and looking for a lost pet.
which do you believe?