Just because someone CAN go to a public parking lot doesn’t mean they HAVE to go to a public parking lot.
But an example, sure, they were picking up their friend that lives across the street and after 20 minutes of texting
-I’m here
-hello?
-?
-?
-Are you coming?
-I’m leaving
and then they leave because their friend was asleep or not home or whatever.
Why are they parked in front of my house to eat, when the nearest McD is in a strip mall parking lot. where they could sit unmolested as long as they want?
Everyone comes up with these hypotheticals to make the concerned look “paranoid”. Again, check your biases. If someone was sitting in front of my NYC brownstone, I wouldn’t give it a thought, because that was probably the only spot they could find. I don’t live in that neighborhood.
I think you need to check yours. Think about how many millions of people, every day, park in front of a house that isn’t theirs, compared to how many of those people are actually up to something they shouldn’t be. Perhaps confirmation bias* is making you think this is a bigger problem than it actually is.
*You actually helped show that confirmation bias is creeping in by dismissing plausible scenarios because they “make the concerned look “paranoid”.”
Also, I’m not sure I understand this:
Is it your NYC brownstone or do you not live in that neighborhood. I don’t know if I’m not reading it correctly or it’s not written correctly.
Then they’d be parked in front of their house. I can see it now - there’s no one in front. They could park there. We actually had that exact thing happen. And then the guy tried to get into the house! Should we have just let him break in? After all, he was just “minding his own business”, and I wouldn;t want to be called “paranoid”. Tell me what you would have done.
Another neighbor used to have a bakeshop, and every Friday the “stranger” mommies would stop by to pick up their goods, leaving their cars running, half in the street, with the doors open (!). But no one got “paranoid” about that, wonder why. Maybe it’s because they weren’t sitting in their cars on a deserted street for extended times.
Why non-phone related, exactly? What’s the difference between a public parking lot (the church you mentioned above, by the way, is private property) and a public street?
But even with the arbitrary conditions… picking up someone where you know the street, but not the exact house number, waiting for a call back for better directions. Arriving too early to an event/appointment and picking a random place to kill time before showing up. Having car trouble and waiting for a friend to come help. A private investigator keeping track of a neighbor.
I can absolutely see the difference between the two situations you describe. You know what’s going on with one, and you don’t with the other, and it bothers you.
You really can’t see the difference between sitting in front of a house on a public street and trying to break in?
Not always. I, very regularly, do just this. When I pick my daughter up from one of her friend’s houses, I’ll text her when I’m out front. She often takes 10 or 20 minutes to finally see the texts and come outside, the entire time I’m parked in front of the house across the street. Why? Because I’m not going to make a 3-point turn to get in front of the correct house and then do it again when I leave so I can keep heading in the same direction I started out. My kid (or the friend in the hypothetical situation) can more easily and quickly walk across the street than for me to turn the car around twice.
You really don’t see that one usually does the first before the second? Are you really this obtuse? According to you, I should have curbed my paranoia and just ignored the guy sitting in the car, because he was on a public street, minding his own business,.
I have asked on at least 3 occasions for you to show some connection between the two, and have heard crickets.
I don’t buy the connection at all. In my experience thieves try not to sit in the open for extended periods of time in front of their targets. I am happy to hear evidence to the contrary, but haven’t yet.
I mean, in that case, you really should be calling the police on every single person you see driving. Any one of them might be on their way to break into a house.
WTF are ““stranger” mommies”? Seriously, I have no idea what that is or is meant to imply.
What are you talking about?
Are you honestly suggesting that parking on the street and sitting in your car is suspicious, but a running car with the doors open, half in the street with no occupants isn’t?
This is a case of A implies B but B does not imply A. That is, yes, breaking into a house requires parking in front of it, but parking in front of a house doesn’t mean you’re going to break into it.
As I said in my other post, based on your logic, everyone driving ought to be pulled over because there’s no reason for them to be out driving unless they’re en route to a home break-in.
Sorry for the nitpick… but breaking in does not require parking in front of a house. Thieves are usually looking for cash and jewelry, not household goods.
I know, I didn’t like writing it either, I just wanted what I said to align with what JAQ said WRT parking in front of a house and breaking into it.
But, having said that, what you said also applies. That is, you’re not required to park in front of a house you’re going to break into. In fact, you’re not even required to drive there. And, in the day and age of cell phones, cell phone cameras, door bell cameras and cheap home surveillance systems, I’d expect more people to park their car elsewhere to keep the make/model/plates from being caught on camera.
Well for one thing, most people have a complete ass.
The proper response to someone parked in front of your house is very location dependent. So I made this helpful guide:
Proper Reponse to Parked Vehicle, by Location
Miami: Bring your cash, get your stash.
Chicago: Get your payoff from the shoebox, take it out to the boys
San Fransisco: Bring them a housewarming gift.
Baltimore: Open fire.
Boston: Tell them they are retarded, and throw a beer bottle at them.
Washington, DC: Start shredding documents
Canada: Bring them some Timbits and coffee, and apologize for the state of the road.
An Uber driver texting he’s arrived.
A repairman calling his office to check in, order a part from the warehouse, or get directions for his next job.
Waiting to pick up a friend.
Someone calling a tow truck, and waiting for them to arrive.
Someone who is lost, calling for directions.
Again, there’s probably a hundred reasons, that might involve a phone, and take more than a few minutes.
If you were to call the police about these, especially repeatedly, you’d be the one in trouble.
You really are something.
Some people like to argue for a reason, others just like to argue,
I mean, I SAW him trying to break in. But in your mind, I’m the one in the wrong. Whatever.
You;re projecting. Or confusing me with the OP.
I never called the cops on any cars parked in front of my house, and the largest reason is it never happens. If I saw someone sitting in front of my house for an hour, mnot doing anything, I wouldn;t call the cops, either. I;d watch, but that’;s it.
It’s funny how you have your own agenda. And it’s funny how many here must ascribe thoughts to me that I’ve never expressed, just so they can feel they are right.
guess the hive mind has spoken.
You are the one in the wrong. You saw one person, one time, break into a house after parking in front of it and have since made up your mind that no one can park in front of a house that isn’t theirs unless they plan to break into it also.
You’re ignoring the fact that millions of people park in front of houses that aren’t theirs every day and don’t break into them.
Years ago my store was held up. Should I call the police every time someone walks in the door? I mean, I saw this person walk in the door and it follows that anyone who holds us up has to walk in the door, right?
Can you point to even a single reason that someone would walk in the front door of my store other than to point a gun at my cashier and steal the money from the registers?
I never said anything like that, so I don’t know why you keep saying that. You can’t extrapolate behavior from the specific to the general. I’m not. I’m talking about cars parked in residential neighborhoods. It’s like you know you have no real argument, but you have to “win”. Your arguments, such as they are, are ridiculous. Well, good luck.