Yeah, me and a couple friends went out looking for a stray cat I've seen around the apartment complex, because I want to give it a home. We followed tracks over to the next complex, and a lot of cat prints were around a dumpster. Well apparently there have been burglaries around lately, so everyone walking outside ends up with the cops called on them for being a creeper. So as we were walking back to my apartment a cop pulls up and asks who we are and what we're doing. I point to where I live and say I've seen a stray cat around and was trying to find it. Thankfully he took me at my word (which was true) and said in daylight good luck finding them. Oh btw, I discovered they are under a concrete slab beside an abandoned building, and that it is a mother and kittens, because I can see prints in the snow. So I'll try again tomorrow.
So you just cooperated with the police? BORING! Here in Augusta a typical scenario would have been: "What the fuck you care why I be out here? I'm just takin' a motherfuckin' walk and shit. Why you harrasin' me? Don't you worry about where I stay, who I is....I know my rights! Take off that badge I'll whip yo little punk ass, bitch!" At which point the neighbors gather and start shouting down the police, and the kitty helper starts running. This turns into a subsequent chase/capture/handcuffing and the neighbors have formed an unruly mob wailing about "Tyrone ain't done nothin! Cops beatin' up my little baby boy for no reason! He ran cause he was turrified!" Within moments Reverends Al + Jesse are escorted to their respective fast response aircraft to come down and stir the pot of "social injustice."
Try: "Just lookin' for a date. Say, officer, is that a nightstick in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me...?"
I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping it was for loud, boisterous sex that was disturbing the neighbors and knocking shit off the bookshelf of the adjoining wall.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to find out who called the cops on you and get them. Any son of a bitch that would call the cops on a neighbor instead of speaking to them first needs to be a non-neighbor. This is 100% what starts the shit. Someone calls the cops on a neighbor, the cops need to require that the speak to them first. Involving the cops just makes matters worse.
EP, it's not like people are playing their music too loud.....that might warrant talking to the neighbors first. There have been burglaries....burglars/robbers carry guns.....guns fire bullets. Are you still with me? So confronting people at night (night tends to limit your vision + skew your perspective) whom you can't positively identify who may or may not be armed is not safe.....those bullets I mentioned - they can harm you!
I'm thinking most people (even if they have a gun) don't want the hassle of shooting someone + going through that whole hassle. Not to mention people will kill you for pocket change. Guns are great for protecting you inside your home. Go outside and you do end up using it.....now you are in the hotseat. Sorry, but the legal system is a finicky filly. I'd say let the police earn their money in this case. There's a guy in New Hamshire who might get three years because he dared showed a werapon to someone he told repeatedly not to come onto his property. That person could have been crazy. http://americaswatchtower.com/2010/11/26/new-hampshire-man-jailed-for-defending-his-property/
Our neighbors across the street have a feral cat that they feed outside. It's a virtual twin of one of our cats, but less well cared for, because you can't get near it. Deer in our neighborhood are more tame. I don't know where it takes cover during extreme weather.
His first mistake was living in New Hampshire. No hotseat here, or in Florida either. Questions? Sure, and as long as you've maintained the letter of the law that's as far as it goes.
These were just guys looking for a cat, and you call me paranoid. I don't like to be noticed or cause no fuss, but I get awfully brave on my own property. I have been known to have plans for situations like that. I mean, lets face it, this is the South. You invade a motherfuckers property, thats your ass.
In the south he wouldn't have seen that weapon but once and then he would not be around to tell the tale to the cops, and the cops most likely would have never known about it. Was that a gunshot, eh, probably just a truck backfiring.
Sorry EP, but Iraq taught me one thing. Be vigilant, be confident, but never be in a big rush to pull a trigger unless you are 100 precent positive you are in the right. And even if you are in the right technically, you better be positive there were no other options. Having said this, IF you are suddenly attacked (or attack is imminent) and really have no time to get into a position to access the situation, then don't hesitate.....pull the trigger until the weapon goes "click." I'm saying try to not be in a position where you have to make a split decision if it's possible. A cool head (Zen like calm if you can) is the greatest weapon on the planet. Like the example of a stranger physically attacking you out of the clear blue...you have no time to assess that situation. They forced your hand on that one. And would you shoot them only one time? Not me.....most people don't go down quickly no matter where they are hit. Not a chance I would take....besides who wants to cripple someone? That's a fate worse than death IMO, plus you could get sued. Yes, I know how things are in The South. I live in a neighborhood full of cops + military where thieves get zero sympathy. But I don't need the legal hassle, and this is always in the back of my mind.
It don't have to be a gun, I got a metal shovel and a few other tricks thats going to find out who it is without giving my hand away.
