my movie experience

[mbt2001]

ChaoSS

read post #20 in reply to your post.

 

[ChaoSS]

I know what you are saying. I certainly wasn't trying to suggest that he do whatever it would take to get the guy's arrested. I also appreciate the desire to protect his own before someone else that couldn't be bothered to look after themselves and make themselves harder to target. I just think it would have been a good thing to do as he was leaving.

 

[mbt2001]

Yep, as do I. Especially since (if he frequents that theater) it might happen again and GOD FORBID he have to shoot someone, you want all the reports on file that you can get of that being a "trouble area".

 

[Wheeler]

Originally posted by ChaoSS:

but honestly, think these things through before you post

CHaoSS,

I did think it through, I've been there, done that. You call the cops, they want you to stick around while they fill out the report. Agreed a paper trail is a good thing but, it's 2AM, I'm familiar with both the location of the incident and the police department in question. Gwinnett County has a LOT of stuff going on, a LOT of gang activity, last report I heard claimed more gang activity in Gwinnett County than the City of Atlanta. I've been to Discover Mills not only as a patron, but in a working capacity as well. There are a lot of dark corners and more poorly lit areas than a mall that new should have.

Was I sarcastic, yep! Did I think it through? Yep! It wasn't some smart alec post just for the sake of increasing that little number under my profile name. I have the advantage of actually walking the area that kyo is describing, dealing with the local police department in the past, and personally knowing several of the officers that are employed by said police force.

Wheeler

 

[kyo]

http://www.gwinnettcounty.com/cgi-b....do?channelId=-536882206&pageTypeId=536880236
they have it listed on places they put units on for gang activity. I used to work at the MOG for 4 years...I was a mall rat there. it wasn't fun there either. I have had a cop at the MOG search my backpack and give me a hard time because I was the "only" one with a bookbag in the whole mall. :banghead:
I used to live close to the MOG, and it had stupid stuff happen there sometimes.

 

[ChaoSS]

Wheeler, fair enough, you know the area better than I. I still think that telling the operator that you would like to report suspicious activity is a good idea. If you feel you are in danger, you are under no obligation to remain there. After all, you are not reporting a crime, just suspicious activity.

I don't think that it would have hurt anything to have made the call, and there's the chance that some good could have come of it.

 

[Anonymous Coward]

I have the advantage of actually walking the area that kyo is describing, dealing with the local police department in the past, and personally knowing several of the officers that are employed by said police force.

Yeah, I get you. Not every place is the same.

This may be apples and oranges, but I called the Chicago PD one night to report a large, well-built man talking to himself while sitting on a car outside my apartment, and two squads responded in less than five minutes. The dispatcher didn't want my name or anything, just the address.

A month later, I called because the vacant building next door had an open door -- police showed up in less than ten and cleared the building. Again, they didn't need me to file a report or leave my name. There was a report of suspicious activity, and they arrived promptly to check it out.

Your mileage may vary.

 

[Wheeler]

Originally posted by zavrina:

I really don't believe that gun owners have rights!

Great, we got ourselves a troll. This oughta be interesting...

So zavrina, by what convoluted piece of logic did you come up with that opinion? Actually, are you willing to reasonably discuss this at all or are you one of those rabid, vitriolic type people that jumps onto forums and tries to stir up the pot? If so, we don't tolerate that sort of behavior here.

Wheeler

 

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[Deanimator]

woot for scary faces

About seven or eight years ago, I was waiting for a train at the Cleveland Amtrak station about 3:00am. An older man comes in and it's immediately obvious that he's not all there. He starts hassling people and making inappropriate comments to women. He latches onto a young Amish couple and starts tormenting them. I tell them, in German, that he's nuts and not to talk to him. After harassing some more people he works his way over to me. He's just about to say something to me when he looks at my face and I give him my best "Outlaw Josey Wales" look burning through him. All of the color drains from his face and he turns on his heel and goes to bother somebody else.

 

[conw]

I agree with David E. Respectful but firm verbal dissuasion can force punks to show their hand.

 

[BBQLS1]

He probably thought you were an easy target since you were watching a dance flick.