Para Bellum
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Actually happened but fortunately, I wasn't around. Some teens threw snowballs at my neighbours garden windows. The reasonable reactions of a smart neighour would have been:
1. it's fun for you: strike back with snowballs and accuracy.
2. it's annoying: take your frost-save garden-hose and hose them wet (at 0° Celsius) that should stop them and do no harm.
3. it scares you: close the blinds and call the police.
What did he do? He grabbed a baseball bat (!!!), went down on the street and confronted them. Brining a deadly weapon into that kids-stuff was the most foolish of all possible actions he could have taken.
Fortunately an other neighbor and his sharp trained german shepard were close and before things escalated he said he'd just unleash the beast to see what happens if they don't all clear the street now. Nobody wanted to discuss this with that dog so everybody left, nobody hurt.
So, IMAGINE: You see a neighbour with a known agression-problem waving a baseball-bat at two teen boys (18/19) right as you turn in to your alley. You carry ccw and have a pepper-spray in your car. Your neighbour doesn't know.
What do you do?
1. Just call the police and mind your own business?
2. Call the police and get out of your car and try to cool things down?
3. How?
4. What if it escalates further?
I'm pretty glad I wasn't home or close. If you interfere things can get very bad. If you don't things can get as bad. Stupid people can put you in quite some dilemma...
1. it's fun for you: strike back with snowballs and accuracy.
2. it's annoying: take your frost-save garden-hose and hose them wet (at 0° Celsius) that should stop them and do no harm.
3. it scares you: close the blinds and call the police.
What did he do? He grabbed a baseball bat (!!!), went down on the street and confronted them. Brining a deadly weapon into that kids-stuff was the most foolish of all possible actions he could have taken.
Fortunately an other neighbor and his sharp trained german shepard were close and before things escalated he said he'd just unleash the beast to see what happens if they don't all clear the street now. Nobody wanted to discuss this with that dog so everybody left, nobody hurt.
So, IMAGINE: You see a neighbour with a known agression-problem waving a baseball-bat at two teen boys (18/19) right as you turn in to your alley. You carry ccw and have a pepper-spray in your car. Your neighbour doesn't know.
What do you do?
1. Just call the police and mind your own business?
2. Call the police and get out of your car and try to cool things down?
3. How?
4. What if it escalates further?
I'm pretty glad I wasn't home or close. If you interfere things can get very bad. If you don't things can get as bad. Stupid people can put you in quite some dilemma...