We are a mile down a dead end road. If you decide this is the place to take a walk, expect a lot of people to be watching you. If you are a neighbor, you might be invited in for a cold drink and make a new friend. We have lost the idea of "neighbors" these days in a lot of places. I am glad I don't live in one of them. Our community association goes out of it's way to meet and greet anyone who moves here but we also notice strangers.
Sounds like a nice quiet place to walk. I don't mind being noticed, but challenged and run off would create quite a stir from me. You could also be sure I'd be back and that you'd not be happy to see me and my friends.
You sound like a trouble maker...damn all you quiet walkers!!! ;-)
Cheri
INCLUDING the innocent people walking on a public street.
Suspected of getting exercise. That's a crime now?
So the innocent people get shot too?
I have to ask. Why did you tippy-toe?
One of my neighbors placed a sign on his mailbox warning that the place was under video surveillance. The postman told him he had to remove the sign. :^)
Depends if you have baggy pants or if you're wearing an adult diaper.
Five law enforcement officers live on my street. The 3 retired are around everyday.
I corrected four hoodlums one day, even made the smart-ass mouth bastard pick up his cigarette butt off the street.
You get to know who belongs and those that don't.
So will my 145 pound mastiff - trained not to bark.
Lot's and lots of years ago, I was putting flyers in mail boxes in some of the newer home developement areas. I got a phone call from the postmaster in that area telling me that it was a Federal law that flyers could not be put in mail boxes, nor could anything be attached to the box related to business or advertising. $5 or 10,000.00 fine .... if I remember right.
I noticed also that quite a number of years ago, the local delivery newpapers were no longer being put in the mailboxes as they'd been for decades. Now they're thrown in peoples driveways. I guess the Post Office got to them too.
Although I no longer have anything to wrap up waste in, I haven't had a newspaper delivered for lots of years. Even though that now days, wraping waste is the only thing they're good for.
How is "I walked very quietly, cautiously and slowly"? :o)
When I was living "on campus" away at cawlij, we had a spate of B&E. Turned out the local gang was making their newbies and stereos and games were quick-and-easy scores from easily entered apartments. One day my neighbor, a "retired" senior from the local semi-pro team due to his knees, caught a couple of them since his day consisted of not much beyond sitting on the porch and watching daylight turn to dusk. That single incident seemed to end the B&Es for the rest of my stay in that 'hood.
Our first house, we moved in to a neighborhood surrounded by gangs but our street and a street front and back of us were stronger than the Walls of Rome because the Old Guard that watched kept them at bay. I never felt so safe as when we lived in that house. We recently went back to show it off to my daughter-units... It's transforemd; and not the same.
I'd take a street filled with retirees over the ebb-and-flow of transients that make up the majority of home-owners today.
The Ranger
Per G. Morgan:
I'd bet that somebody more creative than Yours Truly could do something with this - along the lines of the proposed NRA steamship cruise into Somali waters.
Oh, I was thinking more like "move and your dead!" being yelled out.
SHHHHHH! I am hunting wobbers.
Not as long as you get your exercise permit first.
How about one that does bark at burglars?
Not that I have any sympathy for burglars, but I suspect you will protect your home at least as successfully (more so in the less common cases where the burglar has a gun), and you also have less explaining to do.
The non-barking 145 pound dog sounds like a good idea in lands where I can get away with booby-trapping my bike:
My bike is a fixed gear track bike with a front brake. I work very well with high reliance on front brakes, and the bike due to being a fixed gear track bike has a provision for rear braking.
The booby-trap is adding a rear brake, rear brake cable, and rear brake lever. Most bike thieves are of caliber of cyclists that heavily use rear brakes at least as much as front, or even rear alone.
Not easily noticeable to bike thieves is that the cable going rearward from the rear brake lever is not the same one going rearward towards the rear brake from the seat post. The cable actuated by the rear brake lever pulls the pin out of the hand grenade under the seat. Maybe remove the fragmentation casing from the grenade - so that male bike thieves have some chance at surviving removal of themselves from the gene pool. Maybe not if they but not those they know are likely to retaliate.
Too great a chance for curious children to play with my parked bike, however.
- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)
I saw this at a farmers' market in a rural part of PA just outside suburban Philadelphia:
Trespassers - beware of flying objects! They will be bullets!
- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)
If your "friends" are a gang of thugs we would ALL meet some cops.
The description given was people looking into other people's windows
Asking people who they are is not a crime either.
If they present an imminent threat of bodily harm.
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