Police don’t help with obnoxious drunks

This is in response to the “Peeping Tom” letter I read in the April 4 issue.

I had called the RCMP to complain about drunks coming at all hours of the night to use our phone. I called in December during the Christmas holidays. We had just moved to Iqaluit in August and to our unit in October.

I was playing a board game with my children. The family evening was interrupted by a loud knock and many doorbell rings. I quickly shut off the lights told my kids to go upstairs, I put away the game. I proceeded upstairs to open the window to yell out at the drunk person.

We had asked them before not to come over when they are drunk. I opened one of the bedroom windows and I yelled “Quit coming here when you’re #$@%$# drunk to use the phone, or I’m going to call the cops!”

Well, I was angry enough to call the cops. The guy who answered the phone said “Mary!”

In a stern voice I answered, “I’m not Mary, I’m calling to complain about drunks coming to my house to use the phone at all hours of the night. I have four kids!”

He replied, “Well, do you know the people?”

I replied, “No, but my husband does.”

He then said, “If you know the people, we can’t do anything about it.”

I asked “What about disturbing the peace? Isn’t that breaking the law?”

The guy who answered my call was not in the least bit interested in coming over to deal with “disturbing the peace.”

The drunk people have quit coming since then, but it would have been appreciated if the RCMP did deal with it, but I had to deal with it myself.

(Name withheld by request)
Iqaluit