Tonight some people from my neighborhood blocked off the only entrance and were stopping people as they pulled in to make sure they lived there. I want to know what you think about this. Personally, I thought it was incredibly irritating.
Halloween Vigilantes
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P5 Guy
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Where in FLA? I would have done the same thing if I lived where Wilma was last week.
winstonsmith
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Uhh... were they stopping people who didn't live there?
Lupinus
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What the heck for? I would have called the police and had them boot them out of there. What if I was having a halloween party? Invited friends over? They don't want people at their house trick or treating that is their buisness but the heck if you have the right who can come to my house.
Call the cops and boot the morons.
Call the cops and boot the morons.
KriegHund
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Vigalante indeed. Arse holes.
Lupinus
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tell him to find a tree sit on it and rotate and get the hell off your property.
Did you find out why they were blocking the road other then to be aholes?
Did you find out why they were blocking the road other then to be aholes?
Lupinus
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next time tell the police they have the road completly blocked off and they need to get there before there is an accident if they do it agian. Know where they live? Should have taken pictures to show the police.
Lupinus
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good this way if they ever do show up or they do it agian you can call the police and not only do they have it then but they have them doing it tonight.
If someone set up a little road block for my neighborhood the cops would be called every 15 minutes till they got around to showing up.
If someone set up a little road block for my neighborhood the cops would be called every 15 minutes till they got around to showing up.
P5 Guy
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So, really no need for that kind of nonsense. And they had no authority to do that.
RiverwinoIA
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you should personally egg and TP all their homes. 
Well the first time I pulled in I thought they were cops, but then when I got closer I realized they weren't. Conversation went like this:
Cop wannabe, shining flashlight in my face - "Do you live here?"
Me - "Are you a cop?"
Cop wannabe - "No."
Me - *Dismissive hand gesture and snort, then I drove past them and went home*
When I was pulling into my driveway one of them pulled up on the passenger side of my car on a bicycle (windows rolled down) and asked me again if I lived there. Again:
Cop wannabe 2 - "Do you live here?"
Me - "Are you a cop?"
Cop wannabe 2 - "No."
Me - "Then I don't have to tell you ****, get off my driveway."
Cop wannabe 2 - "Just chill out man, chill out."
Me - "Chill out? You just followed me all the way to my house! Get the **** off my driveway, now!"
Cop wannabe 2 - "I'll call the police."
Me - "Go ahead."
Then he got off his bike and started walking around to my side of the car in a threatening manner. I put the car in park and took my seatbelt off and he jumped back on his bike and rode off.
Cop wannabe, shining flashlight in my face - "Do you live here?"
Me - "Are you a cop?"
Cop wannabe - "No."
Me - *Dismissive hand gesture and snort, then I drove past them and went home*
When I was pulling into my driveway one of them pulled up on the passenger side of my car on a bicycle (windows rolled down) and asked me again if I lived there. Again:
Cop wannabe 2 - "Do you live here?"
Me - "Are you a cop?"
Cop wannabe 2 - "No."
Me - "Then I don't have to tell you ****, get off my driveway."
Cop wannabe 2 - "Just chill out man, chill out."
Me - "Chill out? You just followed me all the way to my house! Get the **** off my driveway, now!"
Cop wannabe 2 - "I'll call the police."
Me - "Go ahead."
Then he got off his bike and started walking around to my side of the car in a threatening manner. I put the car in park and took my seatbelt off and he jumped back on his bike and rode off.
Lupinus
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ah the joys of idiots
The sad thing is...
They thought they were in the right.
Protecting their 'property values' and such. Busybodies of the worst sort.
Even worse, I can sympathize (stuff that goes down Halloween these days), though the guy getting off his pedal bike and acting like he wanted a rumble was pretty dumb.
They thought they were in the right.
Protecting their 'property values' and such. Busybodies of the worst sort.
Even worse, I can sympathize (stuff that goes down Halloween these days), though the guy getting off his pedal bike and acting like he wanted a rumble was pretty dumb.
justashooter
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impeding traffic is a summary offense in pennsylvania.
probably, you can see the district justice (florida equivalent) and write the charge yourself in accordance with the public criminal code.
next time they do this, ask for names and addresses, document (photo, if possible), and see your local magistrate. he will file a charge on your testimony, issue a summons to each individual and address you provide, and set a court date. if you show and testify, they will be convicted and issued fines around 200$. if they fail to appear, a bench warrant will be issued, and served the next time one of them is pulled over for a broken tail light.
doing this may get YOUR house egged next year, but i guarrantee nobody will block your road again.
probably, you can see the district justice (florida equivalent) and write the charge yourself in accordance with the public criminal code.
next time they do this, ask for names and addresses, document (photo, if possible), and see your local magistrate. he will file a charge on your testimony, issue a summons to each individual and address you provide, and set a court date. if you show and testify, they will be convicted and issued fines around 200$. if they fail to appear, a bench warrant will be issued, and served the next time one of them is pulled over for a broken tail light.
doing this may get YOUR house egged next year, but i guarrantee nobody will block your road again.
Matthew748
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Is where you live governed by a Home Owner’s Association? If it is, the Association may legally own the streets and common areas. That is why there are legal gated communities that are closed to the public.
If this is not the case, then they overstepped themselves. If folks want to do a neighborhood watch type of thing that’s fine, but setting up a roadblock without any type of authority is over the line.
If this is not the case, then they overstepped themselves. If folks want to do a neighborhood watch type of thing that’s fine, but setting up a roadblock without any type of authority is over the line.
Technosavant
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Matthew748 said:
Even if the neighborhood is private, right down to the streets (like mine), these fellows had no authority to do this unless it was granted them by the homeowner's association. Even then, if it was not widely publicized as "restricted access", they were all out of line.
It sounds like you live in a neighborhood with a bunch of wannabe Rambos.
ID_shooting
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I would support a neighborhood association restricting access to my neighborhood on nights like Halloween where there are massive amounts of kids loose after dark.
There are lots of creeps out there and I bet there are several news stories accross America this morning about kids being aboducted or exposed to these same creeps to some degree.
Policing is up to the community as well as LEOs.
Sounds like yours took it a bit overboard, but recording plate numbers, A few armed security patrols from trusted neighbors, and looking out for each others children would be welcome in my book. I would much rather be mildly inconvienenced than have to hunt down some freak that snatched my 3 year old from my wife.
There are lots of creeps out there and I bet there are several news stories accross America this morning about kids being aboducted or exposed to these same creeps to some degree.
Policing is up to the community as well as LEOs.
Sounds like yours took it a bit overboard, but recording plate numbers, A few armed security patrols from trusted neighbors, and looking out for each others children would be welcome in my book. I would much rather be mildly inconvienenced than have to hunt down some freak that snatched my 3 year old from my wife.
Peet
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Under the circumstances...
There may be a reason we don't know for this odd behavior. Under the circumstances, some folks in Gfld may do the same next year:
http://www.recorder.com/Headlines/today_basic.htm
(They probably don't leave the stories up long, so I C&P'ed it.)
Greenfield hit by rash of vandalism
By GEORGE W. CLAXTON, Recorder Staff
GREENFIELD — All over the town, police say, small-time vandals did thousands of dollars of damage to more than a dozen vehicles on Sunday night.
Reports of car windows smashed and mailboxes torn down started coming in from citizens and patrol officers as early as 10:52 Sunday night and continued well into Monday morning.
At 9:30 p.m., police were called to Elm Terrace, where four cars were smeared with peanut butter and jelly and a maple topping.
Then things got more serious.
Greenfield patrolman Mark Wollander, who was covering the dispatch desk Monday, said that by 10 a.m. there had already been 16 reports of vandalism in the town and another case, involving two cars, was reported as he was describing the problem.
In most of the cases, pumpkins or other objects were used to shatter vehicle windows and police say that the objects were most likely thrown from a passing car.
On Davis Street, where at least three of the malicious destruction cases took place, a resident reported a bottle thrown through her window just before 11 p.m. Sunday. Less than 20 minutes later, a Conway Street resident reported a pumpkin thrown through his car window.
Cedar Street and Munson Street also saw pumpkin attacks in the hours before dawn and after sunrise a plethora of vandalism reports started to come in.
“I first noticed that my rear window was smashed around 5:30 in the morning. I called the police, but they already knew,” said one Davis Street resident, who did not want to be identified in case the vandals came back.
Cars on Summer Street, Wells Street, Silver, Pine, Birch and Sullivan streets were also hit by vandals. In the case of the Sullivan Street attack, two cars were bombarded with eggs and one of them was splashed with ketchup.
One attack on Birch Street involved a can of paint, or some similar fluid, that was thrown through the rear window of a vehicle and then burst open inside.
On Bayberry Court, vandals used spray paint to mar the hood of a vehicle.
Police say that they are continuing to investigate the vandalism.
HAND, YMMV...
..Peet
There may be a reason we don't know for this odd behavior. Under the circumstances, some folks in Gfld may do the same next year:
http://www.recorder.com/Headlines/today_basic.htm
(They probably don't leave the stories up long, so I C&P'ed it.)
Greenfield hit by rash of vandalism
By GEORGE W. CLAXTON, Recorder Staff
GREENFIELD — All over the town, police say, small-time vandals did thousands of dollars of damage to more than a dozen vehicles on Sunday night.
Reports of car windows smashed and mailboxes torn down started coming in from citizens and patrol officers as early as 10:52 Sunday night and continued well into Monday morning.
At 9:30 p.m., police were called to Elm Terrace, where four cars were smeared with peanut butter and jelly and a maple topping.
Then things got more serious.
Greenfield patrolman Mark Wollander, who was covering the dispatch desk Monday, said that by 10 a.m. there had already been 16 reports of vandalism in the town and another case, involving two cars, was reported as he was describing the problem.
In most of the cases, pumpkins or other objects were used to shatter vehicle windows and police say that the objects were most likely thrown from a passing car.
On Davis Street, where at least three of the malicious destruction cases took place, a resident reported a bottle thrown through her window just before 11 p.m. Sunday. Less than 20 minutes later, a Conway Street resident reported a pumpkin thrown through his car window.
Cedar Street and Munson Street also saw pumpkin attacks in the hours before dawn and after sunrise a plethora of vandalism reports started to come in.
“I first noticed that my rear window was smashed around 5:30 in the morning. I called the police, but they already knew,” said one Davis Street resident, who did not want to be identified in case the vandals came back.
Cars on Summer Street, Wells Street, Silver, Pine, Birch and Sullivan streets were also hit by vandals. In the case of the Sullivan Street attack, two cars were bombarded with eggs and one of them was splashed with ketchup.
One attack on Birch Street involved a can of paint, or some similar fluid, that was thrown through the rear window of a vehicle and then burst open inside.
On Bayberry Court, vandals used spray paint to mar the hood of a vehicle.
Police say that they are continuing to investigate the vandalism.
HAND, YMMV...
..Peet
Lupinus
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I am all for a neighborhood watch and even making it perfectly obvious that you are watching who is coming in and out but outright blocking a road is over the top.
As for the vandalisim thats plain idiocy. What used to be kids being kids having some fun is now a night to act like a hoodlom. TPing someones house or egging it isn't hurting anyone, maybe causing agravation but in the end not hurting anyone. Even things like silly string or soaping someones car. But when you go to the point of actualy destroying someones property by throwing a brick through it thats way to far and if thats the typical mischif and halloween night stuff in your neighborhood the need for a watch is even more understood. But not making a roadblock and stoping people. We used to sit outside hidden with the waterhose and anyone that came calling got a bath
As for the vandalisim thats plain idiocy. What used to be kids being kids having some fun is now a night to act like a hoodlom. TPing someones house or egging it isn't hurting anyone, maybe causing agravation but in the end not hurting anyone. Even things like silly string or soaping someones car. But when you go to the point of actualy destroying someones property by throwing a brick through it thats way to far and if thats the typical mischif and halloween night stuff in your neighborhood the need for a watch is even more understood. But not making a roadblock and stoping people. We used to sit outside hidden with the waterhose and anyone that came calling got a bath
hoppinglark
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you don't need a gun
Neighborhood watch is here to save the DAY!!
*sigh*
Neighborhood watch is here to save the DAY!!
*sigh*
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