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Originally Posted by ngdawg
Good grief, people....
What else could he be doing? Let's see...shooting dope....waiting for lights to go out or the GF to go back inside so he could get to the work of burglarizing a place or two...maybe a rapist taking a break? He wasn't a tenant-didn't belong in a shed-I'd have called the cops too.
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Christ Almighty. Do you think everyone you don't recognize is a criminal???
Let's all assume the worst in everyone, that'll make this world a great place to live in!!!!
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I sure wouldn't want to wake up to find my things vandalized, stolen or someone hurt because I didn't want to be bothered.
We had this happen-dog next door was a notorious barker. So, at midnight one night when he went on a barking fit, we merely shouted at him to shut up. And guess what? He was barking at the burgular(s) who had broken into his owner's garage, stolen items out of the car, then made their way up and down the street, stealing from other cars, including mine. But no one bothered to check things out since "Prince is alwåys barking".
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So you think you would have been better off by calling the cops every time the dog barked? I don't understand your point. Your example has nothing to do with this thread. Your neighbors should have trained their dog NOT to bark, unless there was someone strange in the house. And when the dog barked, then you investigate, and if it's somebody breaking your car windows, then call the cops.
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And, MasterShake and Carn-you have a great future in burglary and grand larceny if everyone took your attitudes.
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Are you implying that I'm a criminal because of my attitude towards this situation?
Honestly, what I would have done is left the guy alone for the night, and checked in the morning. If he was still there, I'd tell him to leave or I'd call the cops. If he came back, I'd call the cops.
But then I'm not Chicken Little, and I like to give people the benfit of the doubt. And I'm not a woman.
EDIT: I didn't mean that as a gender slur, I just meant that being a man I am not as fearful as a woman would be.