Circa
1970 we had a house on the West side of Salt Lake City. While not Latter Day
Saints, most of our neighbors were. We all got along well but they were puzzled
by the frequent appearance of Nevada Law Enforcement vehicles outside our
house.
SLC
served the needs of Eastern Nevada (doctors, eye glasses, big city services)
not available in Ely. One of these services was a small firm reloading
ammunition that serviced the LEO community. Relatives were part of the Ely area
LEO community (probation, corrections).
Our
house was conveniently near I-80. Spent brass was left on our secure porch to
be picked up by the re-loaders and reloaded ammo left for pickup by whatever
LEO happened to be in SLC.
Doesn’t
everyone have 10,000 rounds of .357 on their porch?
Neighbors
were greatly relieved when this knowledge was shared.
As
an aside, we became good friends with one of the local LDS leaders who shared
our street number. Our house was on Lehi Drive, theirs on Lemay Drive. We often
received each other’s mail by mistake. Rather than bother the postal folks, we
would just drive it over to the appropriate house.
I’ve
had people ask what it was like living around “Mormons”. No problems. My only complaint about Saints is
too many of them drive like they are on their way to meet their maker.
