# I may actually go insane with anger **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 18, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848 "2012-08-18T03:04:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/81 "2012-08-18T22:04:49Z")
> [@Farmer\_Jane](#): > > But this is a board with a new cat or dog thread every week. I guess I was just surprised. What would YOU do if someone hit your dog and kept going? Write down their license number, maybe yell something from my front yard. I would not chase them down Rambo-style through the mean streets of Columbus, however. That’s definitely outside my pay scale. ---
**Author:** ![Crab\_Rangoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Crab\_Rangoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab_Rangoon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/82 "2012-08-18T22:04:49Z")
And the dog was apparently unhurt? Well - I guess I would make sure my dogs didn’t run around in the street anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/83 "2012-08-18T22:06:26Z")
> [@Farmer\_Jane](#): > > What would YOU do if someone hit your dog and kept going? I’d take it to the vet, and make a stop at the hardware store for an invisible fence on the way home. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/84 "2012-08-18T22:10:06Z")
Twenty to eighty guns, including machine guns, but not invisible fence. Interesting priorities. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/85 "2012-08-18T22:25:46Z")
> [@Farmer\_Jane](#): > > Yeah, I guess I’m not the only one with an English fail here, since I clearly wrote “pile up” \*and \*“piling on”. You didn’t catch that? :rolleyes: Yeah, because that three-word comment was clearly the lynchpin of everything I was trying to say. Thank you for playing, please try again some other time. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/86 "2012-08-18T22:32:21Z")
> [@Farmer\_Jane](#): > > What would YOU do if someone hit your dog and kept going? Wrong order. What would I do if someone hit my dog? I’d rush outside with a non-murderous look on my face checking to see if the dog was okay. What would I do if someone saw me coming and sped away, having previously slowed down? I’d goddamn check myself, figure out what was going on with me that made someone so terrified of me that they’d decide to speed off after having already decided to slow down. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/87 "2012-08-18T22:37:15Z")
It sounds like the OP has had a lot of problems with neighbors and crime. I’m sure it made him quick to anger. Not that he responded APPROPRIATELY, but since so many Dopers on here talk about their pets like they are kids, I figured he’d get a little more sympathy for the doggie hit and run. Which is, btw, a crime in some places. According to the OP, it was the neighbor who threatened his life and then filed a false report. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/88 "2012-08-18T22:46:03Z")
> [@Farmer\_Jane](#): > > I guess I was just surprised. What would YOU do if someone hit your dog and kept going? Shoot them with a suppressed .22? > [@What should I do with a captured raccoon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-a-captured-raccoon/631479/39): > > I keep telling you city kids that need to euthanize something in the yard - get a suppressed .22 > > .17 HMR is great, but not subsonic. [Here’s the difference](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7chrgtPYDY&feature=related) between waking the neighbors, and solving a problem quietly and privately. No wait, that advice was for critters, not people. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/89 "2012-08-18T22:54:53Z")
> [@Farmer\_Jane](#): > > It sounds like the OP has had a lot of problems with neighbors and crime. I’m sure it made him quick to anger. Not that he responded APPROPRIATELY, but since so many Dopers on here talk about their pets like they are kids, I figured he’d get a little more sympathy for the doggie hit and run. > > **Which is, btw, a crime in some places.** > > According to the OP, it was the neighbor who threatened his life and then filed a false report. Even in locations where it is a requirement to stop for a traffic accident you can get around that if you feel unsafe by stopping as soon as it is safe and contacting the police. I have little sympathy for the OP and there are a chain of reasons why. 1. The driver tried to avoid the dog and after she hit him slowed and was about to stop. 2. When she drove away, presumably in fear since she didn’t drive straight home he got in his car and chased her. 3. When he determined where her house was he drove into her driveway and jumped out of his vehicle and started yelling at her. 4. Her husband was angry at this crazy man threatening his wife and went to the OP’s house to also be an idiot. Really the damn driver is probably the most innocent person in the entire story. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/90 "2012-08-18T22:56:13Z")
Why are the dogs “idiots” for playing in the street? I’m pretty sure the dogs are expecting the OP to be the brains of their particular operation. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/91 "2012-08-18T23:08:05Z")
I’m not going to read 100 posts to see if this has already been asked, but why didn’t you have the cops check the SUV for dog hair on the bumper or whatever? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/92 "2012-08-18T23:14:46Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I’m not going to read 100 posts to see if this has already been asked, but why didn’t you have the cops check the SUV for dog hair on the bumper or whatever? It’s an SUV, not an SVU. I really, really doubt the Atlanta police are going to call in forensics to see if a dog THAT’S FINE might have gotten bumped by an SUV when its owner illegally let it run out into the road. Also, good form on the not reading the thread before responding. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/93 "2012-08-18T23:20:46Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Even in locations where it is a requirement to stop for a traffic accident you can get around that if you feel unsafe by stopping as soon as it is safe and contacting the police. > > I have little sympathy for the OP and there are a chain of reasons why. > > 1. The driver tried to avoid the dog and after she hit him slowed and was about to stop. > 2. When she drove away, presumably in fear since she didn’t drive straight home he got in his car and chased her. > 3. When he determined where her house was he drove into her driveway and jumped out of his vehicle and started yelling at her. > 4. Her husband was angry at this crazy man threatening his wife and went to the OP’s house to also be an idiot. > > Really the damn driver is probably the most innocent person in the entire story. Except for the part where the driver backed up her husband in their bogus police report? Yeah. Crazy all around. edit: Sounds like the driver would’ve been busted had he the proper tape. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/94 "2012-08-18T23:34:04Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > It’s an SUV, not an SVU. I really, really doubt the Atlanta police are going to call in forensics to see if a dog THAT’S FINE might have gotten bumped by an SUV when its owner illegally let it run out into the road. I agree. That’s why I said nothing about calling out a forensics unit, I just said why not have the cops, who were going to talk to the SUV owners anyway, take a look and see if there were dog hairs on the bumper. Not exactly high tech, or great expense, or even much trouble. > [@](#): > > Also, good form on the not reading the thread before responding. Ooooh snap! At least I read, with reasonable comprehension, the post I responded to. Unlike some people I could mention. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/95 "2012-08-18T23:39:00Z")
Wait, your dog didn’t even die and you \*still \*chased that chick down in a frothy rage? Holy snapple. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/96 "2012-08-18T23:39:02Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I have cookies. Got any oatmeal date? > [@Acsenray](#): > > The problem is that he didn’t just vent … apparently. He freaked the fuck out, chased down his neighbor, and started a confrontation. I’m not inclined to help him feel better about himself. Uh, he said he asked if they were the ones who ran over his dog. Husband/boyfriend/whatever of female dog-runner-over got in his face, and he drove away. Husband/boyfriend/whatever lied to cops about what went down, and got busted in a wickedly delicious moment of short-fuse karma. Which he deserved anyway for defending someone who would run over a dog on a residential street and then speed away. As far as the dog getting out: shit happens. Why does he have video surveillance and not an electric-barrier fence. Maybe, and this is just a wild-assed guess, he isn’t Dollar McMoneybags, and had to make some choices, and thought the regular fence would suffice to keep the dogs in, whereas the security system would enhance the security of his entire domicile. He had the “Oh, Shit!” moment when he realized the critters had managed, against expectations, to get free, and was in the process of correcting that, when Little Miss Hit-and-Run came along. Seriously, this sounds like a residential street in a neighborhood, what’s the speed limit going to be? 15, 20 mph? How fast was she going that she couldn’t hit the brakes? How fucked up was she that she hits an animal and speeds away? And then makes up a bogus story to the cops? > [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > Dude needs professional help, not a fancy security system. Dude _is_ a professional. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/97 "2012-08-18T23:42:13Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > Dude _is_ a professional. That’s the part that worries me. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/98 "2012-08-18T23:56:35Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > As far as the dog getting out: shit happens. Why does he have video surveillance and not an electric-barrier fence. Maybe, and this is just a wild-assed guess, he isn’t Dollar McMoneybags, and had to make some choices, and thought the regular fence would suffice to keep the dogs in, whereas the security system would enhance the security of his entire domicile. Assuming that the list of guns Muffin posted upthread was actually guns that our OP claimed to have (Muffin sure implied that the OP had claimed to have them), he’s got a quarter-million dollar gun collection right there. Easily. (Per a friend of mine who’s a gun collector with an FFL) > [@](#): > > Seriously, this sounds like a residential street in a neighborhood, what’s the speed limit going to be? 15, 20 mph? How fast was she going that she couldn’t hit the brakes? How fucked up was she that she hits an animal and speeds away? Please get the story right. Per our OP, and I quote directly, his own words: > [@](#): > > She slowed before she got to him, stopped after hitting him, then took off as I made it to the front yard screaming at her to stop. She slowed (presumably to try to avoid hitting the dog–because what’s the alternative? She slowed to try to make little Fluffy’s agony last longer as she rolled over him?) She _stopped_–his own words. He came screaming after her and she took off. She did the right thing until the psycho-sounding guy came screaming after her. I’d have bailed too. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/99 "2012-08-19T00:31:44Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > ::: sigh :::: The ( … periods ) Never knew they weren’t really periods or dots. is because I don’t call other peoples names out loud , not unlike others in the thread… > > Yeah, she needed her ass whipped unless it is a joke that ducati knows about but if they were told to stray out, candy bar or security system, either bad parenting or kids that listen people who do not suffer the results of their interference. Kid was way wrong at at the worst possible time because the needed footage was lost. You miss that part? > > You can say anything you want on a message board. Even non taboo words can have bad consequences IRL so just spouting off can be a bad habit but you all seem to like to do so so go for it… > > I’m not really hard to understand, willfulness aside… > > Fun stuff, especially the stupid parts… Oh, I understand now. Typing swear words = bad. Beating children = good. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848/100 "2012-08-19T00:34:50Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Assuming that the list of guns Muffin posted upthread was actually guns that our OP claimed to have (Muffin sure implied that the OP had claimed to have them), The list I compiled was from [post 17 of Ducati’s “Ask the Guy With Machine Guns” thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15145113&postcount=17). I did make an error, though. I stated twenty through eighty guns, when in fact Ducati claimed twenty to one-hundred guns. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-actually-go-insane-with-anger/631848.md?page=6)