Is this my Dad? This is the exact same things he would say…in another words, well put. What bothers me about the things being said id here we have a woman sitting home alone and worrying about whats going on accross the street. Who am I or anyone else to say that her fears are just paranoia? Not our call. If she feels safer contacting authorities then by all means, she has that right! I dont think certain people are being fair to her at all.
No, of course I dont “like” it but I understand that there are activities in this world that may warrant a few questions. No harm, no foul. Theres really only two things that will come of Zsofia contacting the police in this case. One, they keep a closer eye on the house, possibly question the inhabitants and find nothing…great. Or two, they keep a closer watch on the house maybe question the inhabitants and find a major drug house and bust them…even better. I am not apposed to the legalization of drugs by the way and I agree with the previous poster on that subject.
If she saw weapons, packages trading hands, or works laying all over the sidewalk, that’s one thing. She’s seen NOTHING. She’s got as much cause to suspect them of dealing drugs as they’ve got of assuming she’s running a brothel.
The fact that they’re keeping a closer eye on their house AT ALL is an invasion of privacy. Especially when it’s based on the lunatic ravings of someone who is suspicious of basketball players. Keeee-rist.
Since when is looking at someones house an invasion of privacy? If you are the type of person that feels someone looking at your house, in a neighborhood, an invasion of privacy then I would think they wouldnt live in a NEIGHBORHOOD! Take your cats and move to a remote area of Montana with all the other invasion of privacy “lunatics”
So now she’s crazy and wary of basketball players? Good God, people, how did this come so badly off the rails?
She lives alone. There’s odd behavior going on in her neighborhood. The police will check it out. She’s trying to prevent things from getting worse, if indeed they are drug dealers. Or would you rather she wait until her house is broken into or her car stolen before she “gets involved” and “sticks her nose in where it doesn’t belong?”
It’s hardly an invasion of privacy if a cop does a driveby down a public street. And there’s no reason to call from a payphone in another town. It’s her neighborhood too, and she has nothing to be ashamed of if she wants to keep it nice and crime-free.
What about a neighbor I had the misfortune to rent a house by? There were no visible packages trading hands at all, but they’d walk the street, turning the corner to walk in front of my house, and greet “friends” by tapping their hands a couple of times, as they said “Hey man, how you doin?” then casually walk on, each going in a different direction, with him going back to his house after the other was out of sight. (Sleight of hand anyone?) The guy did that twenty times a day some days. They were busted for drug dealing after I had left the neighborhood. From what I was told, they police had been surveying their house for some time, before I arrived in the neighborhood. I believe neighbors tipped them off as to what was going on. It can be very subtle and virtually undectable if you don’t have sharp eyes.
If someone is not personally bothering YOU, Diogenes the Cynic, then you see no reason to let the cops know of a prospective danger in the neighborhood?
Are you the only person that matters in your neighborhood?
Yes. A victim of murder, not drugs.
Pleas take note: I said that WEED does not have a victim, not that no drugs do. Please do not make the simplistic mistake of grouping all drugs into the same category
Yes and yes.
None, because it’s not relevant. The OP has seen no violence, nor does she actually know that drugs are being dealt in the first place. You’re extropolating from extropolations.
I seriously doubt it.
I can conclude that drug dealers aren’t necessarily dangerous and should be given the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. Especially if it’s only weed.
I fail to see how this is analogous.
As long as they’re not bothering me, I don’t care. People have the right to do whatever drugs they want.
If it’s so subtle an undetectable, then it’s not really hurting anyone, is it?
The OP has not said she’s seen them bothering ANYBODY. Of course i would call the cops if I saw a neighbor harassing or threatening someone else. That’s not the case here.
Thats where you are wrong. They simply do not have the RIGHT. That may be a problem in on itself but the right is not given.
Except for the fact that the guy was dealing cocaine, so those were crackheads going through the neighborhood, most of which was away at work during the day. :rolleyes:
So what?
It doesn’t have to be given. The government has to show a reason to take it away. What other people choose to put in their bodies is none of my business.
Maybe she shouldn’t if she’s so scared about a few basketball players.
No, there isn’t. There’s a house with a lot of young people coming and going, some horns honking, and people who play basketball with a degree of concentration suspicious to the OP.
Apart from the fact that after the dealer was busted petty theft in the neighborhood went down, due to the fact of less foot traffic? (People had things stolen from their yards/garages and houses for a while there.) So dealing crack is ok to you now? Right then, there’s no getting through to you.
Except that earlier, you said that as long as they weren’t bothering YOU, you’d leave them alone.
But even if we set that point aside, the point is that she’s trying to prevent trouble before it occurs. It’s no big deal to report suspicions to the police, so that they can discreetly check a situation out. For all you know, they may already be investigating some related trouble in the area, and needed just a few more clues to solve this case.
Oh really? Bully for you. My brother lived next door to “nice guy” dealers. Wonderful chaps. Then one day someone came looking for the “nice guys” with waepons and went to the wrong apartment. Waved guns at my brother and his friends while they vapor-locked trying to figure out what to do next. Luckily they left instead of getting rid of witnesses.
Too bad if you think drug dealing is a victimless crime. Tell that to all the families of people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time - just “minding their business” when the stray bullets flew.
Grow up.
Some things are worth being investigated. If there’s a suspicion of illegal activity it should be reported.
By all means, if a crackhead steals something from your garage, call the police. Don’t blame the dealer, blame the thief.