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Congratulations - -for the first time on TFP, you've actually managed to make me personally pissed at something I read here, which is why I'm about to be a hell of a lot more blunt than even I usually am.
Quite frankly I resent the hell out of just about everything you said. Because I refuse to go off half cocked and paint someone as pure evil before I KNOW they're pure evil, you act like I'm putting you on the defensive. I protect my family too, but to be brutally blunt, I do it more intelligently.
You can play the pookie and the dear games all you want, but your condescending tone does not erase the idiocy you pulled in this situation. Face facts, "dear," you messed up. You should have called the cops and asked them about this guy before you went to the nutty neighbor who decided to conduct a one woman war against the man before either one of you knew what the hell he did. You've even admitted that you should have done that, yet somehow I am still wrong in all this. That's absurd.
Yes, I do consistantly use alternative scenarios to try and explain basic concepts to people who just plain don't get it, and I will continue doing so. It seems to work, at least most of the time.
Shanifaye should have had the opportunity to tell you what to look for BEFORE you turned the neighbor loose on this guy. We are fortunate in this situation that the neighbor turned out to be a matter of genuine concern. You particularly are fortunate because if he HADN'T been a person of concern or (as has happened many, MANY times) had been on the list mistakenly due to a clerical error, he could have sued the holy crap out of you and your whackjob neighbor, and you both would have deserved it.
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