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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by nrthshgrl
Posted by aliwnec10
my husband is a cop. If you called his station you would have gotten hung up on. This is the last of their concern right now and you're kind of wasting their time with this call.
I'm sorry it makes you nervous about someone being in your backyard. I understand where you're coming from.
But this is not something to call the cops over with all that is going on.
I'm not married to an officer but I'm sure your DH's precinct would be up sh1t's creek for hanging up on someone's call. In fact, Newsday would love a story to write about how someone's safety concerns weren't being addressed by the PD & that a dispatch hung up on the caller.
I think it was all in how the OP phrased her concern to both LIF & to the police.
If I called the police & said I heard someone in my backyard last night. They may have been just using the power, there is no way they're going to tell me they have bigger issues to deal with & let it go. They're going to say if you hear something again, call 911. If I call them when it's happening, they are going to send a car for a possible break-in.
Telling her the police have bigger fish to fry, won't help her if the next guy in her backyard is checking for a way into her house.
Telling the OP she'd be hung up on when SOME STRANGER was in her BACKYARD, isn't helpful. In fact, it's the reverse moral of a boy who cried wolf.
Ding ding ding!
DH was a cop with the NYPD and when I showed him this he said- if we EVER EVER hung up on someone who called our precient, heads would ROLL.
What an awful thing to say- and it further adds to a bad rap for cops.
OP- please know that even though the cops are all busy and stressed right now, not ALL of them would act so rude as to hang up on you.
Nor would it be tolerated by their superiors.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by nrthshgrl
Posted by aliwnec10
my husband is a cop. If you called his station you would have gotten hung up on. This is the last of their concern right now and you're kind of wasting their time with this call.
I'm sorry it makes you nervous about someone being in your backyard. I understand where you're coming from.
But this is not something to call the cops over with all that is going on.
I'm not married to an officer but I'm sure your DH's precinct would be up sh1t's creek for hanging up on someone's call. In fact, Newsday would love a story to write about how someone's safety concerns weren't being addressed by the PD & that a dispatch hung up on the caller.
I think it was all in how the OP phrased her concern to both LIF & to the police.
If I called the police & said I heard someone in my backyard last night. They may have been just using the power, there is no way they're going to tell me they have bigger issues to deal with & let it go. They're going to say if you hear something again, call 911. If I call them when it's happening, they are going to send a car for a possible break-in.
Telling her the police have bigger fish to fry, won't help her if the next guy in her backyard is checking for a way into her house.
Telling the OP she'd be hung up on when SOME STRANGER was in her BACKYARD, isn't helpful. In fact, it's the reverse moral of a boy who cried wolf.
Ding ding ding!
DH was a cop with the NYPD and when I showed him this he said- if we EVER EVER hung up on someone who called our precient, heads would ROLL.
What an awful thing to say- and it further adds to a bad rap for cops.
OP- please know that even though the cops are all busy and stressed right now, not ALL of them would act so rude as to hang up on you.
Nor would it be tolerated by their superiors.
I wonder if the OP called 911 or the non-emergency line that resulted in a call from a nasty operator. Maybe that would have made a difference in the response she got and how the situation was handled?
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by jkfris09
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by nrthshgrl
Posted by aliwnec10
my husband is a cop. If you called his station you would have gotten hung up on. This is the last of their concern right now and you're kind of wasting their time with this call.
I'm sorry it makes you nervous about someone being in your backyard. I understand where you're coming from.
But this is not something to call the cops over with all that is going on.
I'm not married to an officer but I'm sure your DH's precinct would be up sh1t's creek for hanging up on someone's call. In fact, Newsday would love a story to write about how someone's safety concerns weren't being addressed by the PD & that a dispatch hung up on the caller.
I think it was all in how the OP phrased her concern to both LIF & to the police.
If I called the police & said I heard someone in my backyard last night. They may have been just using the power, there is no way they're going to tell me they have bigger issues to deal with & let it go. They're going to say if you hear something again, call 911. If I call them when it's happening, they are going to send a car for a possible break-in.
Telling her the police have bigger fish to fry, won't help her if the next guy in her backyard is checking for a way into her house.
Telling the OP she'd be hung up on when SOME STRANGER was in her BACKYARD, isn't helpful. In fact, it's the reverse moral of a boy who cried wolf.
Ding ding ding!
DH was a cop with the NYPD and when I showed him this he said- if we EVER EVER hung up on someone who called our precient, heads would ROLL.
What an awful thing to say- and it further adds to a bad rap for cops.
OP- please know that even though the cops are all busy and stressed right now, not ALL of them would act so rude as to hang up on you.
Nor would it be tolerated by their superiors.
I wonder if the OP called 911 or the non-emergency line that resulted in a call from a nasty operator. Maybe that would have made a difference in the response she got and how the situation was handled?
Not sure but I was referring to the poster who said her DH"s precient would have hung up on her if she called them.
That is what I find unacceptable.
And unprofessional
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by jkfris09
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by nrthshgrl
Posted by aliwnec10
my husband is a cop. If you called his station you would have gotten hung up on. This is the last of their concern right now and you're kind of wasting their time with this call.
I'm sorry it makes you nervous about someone being in your backyard. I understand where you're coming from.
But this is not something to call the cops over with all that is going on.
I'm not married to an officer but I'm sure your DH's precinct would be up sh1t's creek for hanging up on someone's call. In fact, Newsday would love a story to write about how someone's safety concerns weren't being addressed by the PD & that a dispatch hung up on the caller.
I think it was all in how the OP phrased her concern to both LIF & to the police.
If I called the police & said I heard someone in my backyard last night. They may have been just using the power, there is no way they're going to tell me they have bigger issues to deal with & let it go. They're going to say if you hear something again, call 911. If I call them when it's happening, they are going to send a car for a possible break-in.
Telling her the police have bigger fish to fry, won't help her if the next guy in her backyard is checking for a way into her house.
Telling the OP she'd be hung up on when SOME STRANGER was in her BACKYARD, isn't helpful. In fact, it's the reverse moral of a boy who cried wolf.
Ding ding ding!
DH was a cop with the NYPD and when I showed him this he said- if we EVER EVER hung up on someone who called our precient, heads would ROLL.
What an awful thing to say- and it further adds to a bad rap for cops.
OP- please know that even though the cops are all busy and stressed right now, not ALL of them would act so rude as to hang up on you.
Nor would it be tolerated by their superiors.
I wonder if the OP called 911 or the non-emergency line that resulted in a call from a nasty operator. Maybe that would have made a difference in the response she got and how the situation was handled?
i think the "hung up on" comment was made in jest maybe an exaggeration of what would actually happen. but, someone calling the police ESPECIALLY if it was 911 when nothing was stolen, nobody was injured and expecting them to patrol your home because someone plugged a cord into a backyard outlet overnight during a crisis when people are actually being looted and have to fight people off with bats and guns elsewhere is a bit much.
to the OP, you said this happened overnight...maybe a neighbor or whoever did it didn't want to wake you?
I'm NOT saying what they did is right by any means...but to pull attention away from people and places that need it and have ACTUAL threats to their lives and livelihood and families is not the right thing to do, IMO.
eta: i def did not take the "hung up on" comment in a 100% literal sense although I'm sure they would WANT to.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by jkfris09
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by nrthshgrl
Posted by aliwnec10
my husband is a cop. If you called his station you would have gotten hung up on. This is the last of their concern right now and you're kind of wasting their time with this call.
I'm sorry it makes you nervous about someone being in your backyard. I understand where you're coming from.
But this is not something to call the cops over with all that is going on.
I'm not married to an officer but I'm sure your DH's precinct would be up sh1t's creek for hanging up on someone's call. In fact, Newsday would love a story to write about how someone's safety concerns weren't being addressed by the PD & that a dispatch hung up on the caller.
I think it was all in how the OP phrased her concern to both LIF & to the police.
If I called the police & said I heard someone in my backyard last night. They may have been just using the power, there is no way they're going to tell me they have bigger issues to deal with & let it go. They're going to say if you hear something again, call 911. If I call them when it's happening, they are going to send a car for a possible break-in.
Telling her the police have bigger fish to fry, won't help her if the next guy in her backyard is checking for a way into her house.
Telling the OP she'd be hung up on when SOME STRANGER was in her BACKYARD, isn't helpful. In fact, it's the reverse moral of a boy who cried wolf.
Ding ding ding!
DH was a cop with the NYPD and when I showed him this he said- if we EVER EVER hung up on someone who called our precient, heads would ROLL.
What an awful thing to say- and it further adds to a bad rap for cops.
OP- please know that even though the cops are all busy and stressed right now, not ALL of them would act so rude as to hang up on you.
Nor would it be tolerated by their superiors.
I wonder if the OP called 911 or the non-emergency line that resulted in a call from a nasty operator. Maybe that would have made a difference in the response she got and how the situation was handled?
Not sure but I was referring to the poster who said her DH"s precient would have hung up on her if she called them.
That is what I find unacceptable.
And unprofessional
I agree on your points, your comment just made me think of what I said and question who she called.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by Ayne11
Posted by Jugglemom
 just because people do not have electricity does not give anyone the right to abandon rules of society. I experienced hurricane Andrew ( one of the worst in history) and had no power for 22 days and we never stole electricity from anyone nor did we act like savages. It is not okay, they should have asked!
ITA with all of this.
To the OP, I don't blame you for feeling violated, I would too. I also fear that this is just the beginning. People are having guns pulled on them at gas stations or beating the ever living shit out of one another. It's just sad how all the rules and acting like a civil human being just go right out the window. We should be all banding together as one, not acting like savage animals.
This
It's so sad that this sort of devastation brings out the worst in people. All the looting, gas syphoning, robbing people at gun point.... It's true. People forget how to be a human and the criminals are having a free for all bc the police are too busy dealing with the aftermath of the storm.
This is why we are armed in our home.
To the OP: I would have felt violated and would have called the police as well. This person "just came to use your outlet" but maybe he was casing the house. Maybe he was about to try and break in and heard/saw you and booked it. YOU NEVER KNOW. Always call for help.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by MrsMeloyellow
Posted by jkfris09
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by nrthshgrl
Posted by aliwnec10
my husband is a cop. If you called his station you would have gotten hung up on. This is the last of their concern right now and you're kind of wasting their time with this call.
I'm sorry it makes you nervous about someone being in your backyard. I understand where you're coming from.
But this is not something to call the cops over with all that is going on.
I'm not married to an officer but I'm sure your DH's precinct would be up sh1t's creek for hanging up on someone's call. In fact, Newsday would love a story to write about how someone's safety concerns weren't being addressed by the PD & that a dispatch hung up on the caller.
I think it was all in how the OP phrased her concern to both LIF & to the police.
If I called the police & said I heard someone in my backyard last night. They may have been just using the power, there is no way they're going to tell me they have bigger issues to deal with & let it go. They're going to say if you hear something again, call 911. If I call them when it's happening, they are going to send a car for a possible break-in.
Telling her the police have bigger fish to fry, won't help her if the next guy in her backyard is checking for a way into her house.
Telling the OP she'd be hung up on when SOME STRANGER was in her BACKYARD, isn't helpful. In fact, it's the reverse moral of a boy who cried wolf.
Ding ding ding!
DH was a cop with the NYPD and when I showed him this he said- if we EVER EVER hung up on someone who called our precient, heads would ROLL.
What an awful thing to say- and it further adds to a bad rap for cops.
OP- please know that even though the cops are all busy and stressed right now, not ALL of them would act so rude as to hang up on you.
Nor would it be tolerated by their superiors.
I wonder if the OP called 911 or the non-emergency line that resulted in a call from a nasty operator. Maybe that would have made a difference in the response she got and how the situation was handled?
i think the "hung up on" comment was made in jest maybe an exaggeration of what would actually happen. but, someone calling the police ESPECIALLY if it was 911 when nothing was stolen, nobody was injured and expecting them to patrol your home because someone plugged a cord into a backyard outlet overnight during a crisis when people are actually being looted and have to fight people off with bats and guns elsewhere is a bit much.
to the OP, you said this happened overnight...maybe a neighbor or whoever did it didn't want to wake you?
I'm NOT saying what they did is right by any means...but to pull attention away from people and places that need it and have ACTUAL threats to their lives and livelihood and families is not the right thing to do, IMO.
eta: i def did not take the "hung up on" comment in a 100% literal sense although I'm sure they would WANT to.
wow i wasn't saying they would literally do that. I was being sarcastic in the fact that this kind of call isn't exactly what would be the main concern with all that is going on. i was not being literal so everyone can relax. 
ETA: and just for the record, it's not cops answering the phones when you call in. It's dispatch.
I was just trying to say that there are bigger things right now for them to be concerned about. Like people pulling out knives and guns at police stations. 
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Just upset: Sandy related
Just an FYI: I called the police earlier b/c a fight was about to break out at Hess on Sunrise in Mass . People were getting out of their cars and screaming at each other. The dispatcher asked if they were actually fighting or just arguing. I said arguing but it was getting heated. She saud call back if they actually start fighting because there is too much going on right now.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
I'd be upset. If you knock on my door and ask me, I'll let you...even if you are a stranger (and my DH is home). If you are sneaking around, that rubs me the wrong way.
I wish people in my neighborhood without power would ask me if they could stop in....
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Your post just annoyed the hell out of me. Under normal circumstance I would be annoyed too but there aren't normal circumstances. I see your point about asking but it probably was someone you know and it was probably late and that is why they didn't ask. There is serious stuff going on right now- police are at all the intersections by me at at gas stations making sure people don't riot.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
I'd be freaked out by that too. You have every right to be upset and to feel violated!
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
I just cannot stress enough how much people need to NOT call the police for such trivial things right now...let them help those who really need it...like people in car accidents due to lack or signals, people with missing loved ones, people being stabbed or shot, held up and looted, people in house fires etc.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
I am sorry, but sneaking around in my yard and stealing the usage of my power during the night, in the dark with out asking is wrong, I don't care what state we are currently in. OP I think that you have every right to feel violated. Ring the bell, ask me and I would never turn anyone away.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Seriously? You called the police and asked them to "step up patrols" in your neighborhood? Do you know what's going on out there? I agree that I would feel violated and I might even have called the police to report it, but to ask them to "step up patrols" when there is SO MUCH MORE going on comes across as being entitled and out of touch.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by Teachergal
Seriously? You called the police and asked them to "step up patrols" in your neighborhood? Do you know what's going on out there? I agree that I would feel violated and I might even have called the police to report it, but to ask them to "step up patrols" when there is SO MUCH MORE going on comes across as being entitled and out of touch.
Entitled and out of touch are Assholes cutting gas lines making people who have been waiting 4+ hours lose their shit, people pulling guns on people, people going to gas staions armed with baseball bats "just in case" looters, home invaders, rioters.
Big deal, so she called the cops. What would you have done, offered him a cup of coffee and lounge chair to sit on so he could be comfy & warm while charging up his device? I wouldn't.
Everyone needs to cut her some slack, we're all not living in sane times right now. I don't think she meant to come across as some people are perceiving it.
Trust me when I say people "borrowing your outlet" is just the beginning for something far worse.
Edited for spelling.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by teachermom
Your post just annoyed the hell out of me. Under normal circumstance I would be annoyed too but there aren't normal circumstances. I see your point about asking but it probably was someone you know and it was probably late and that is why they didn't ask. There is serious stuff going on right now- police are at all the intersections by me at at gas stations making sure people don't riot.
I disagree with you.
Yes, things are bad but guess what..........that does not mean that as a society we abandon all rules of human decency and consideration. Nobody has a right to waltz into your yard and help themselves to anything. That is trespassing and it's not okay. And IMO, the minute we start excusing some of the behavior that is going on right now is when we fall apart as a society. People are more than willing to help, I have seen so many people reaching out to others but no one is entitled to just take. It wouldn't be okay to walk into someone's yard under normal circumstances and its still not okay now. We still need to respect each other and have common courtesy no matter how bad sh!t gets.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by teachermom
Your post just annoyed the hell out of me. Under normal circumstance I would be annoyed too but there aren't normal circumstances. I see your point about asking but it probably was someone you know and it was probably late and that is why they didn't ask. There is serious stuff going on right now- police are at all the intersections by me at at gas stations making sure people don't riot.
I disagree with you.
Yes, things are bad but guess what..........that does not mean that as a society we abandon all rules of human decency and consideration. Nobody has a right to waltz into your yard and help themselves to anything. That is trespassing and it's not okay. And IMO, the minute we start excusing some of the behavior that is going on right now is when we fall apart as a society. People are more than willing to help, I have seen so many people reaching out to others but no one is entitled to just take. It wouldn't be okay to walk into someone's yard under normal circumstances and its still not okay now. We still need to respect each other and have common courtesy no matter how bad sh!t gets.
but i think the point being missed is that nobody is excusing it...the people should have asked...however she said this happened at night...perhaps a neighbor saw most of the lights off and did not want to wake her up? I'm not saying it's right...but in the grand scheme of things...the person OBVIOUSLY was not there to cause harm. If they wanted to steal items of value they would have, if they wanted to harm her, they would have plain and simple...the point everyone is trying to make is that to redirect police attention to that and expect them to patrol your home / area more over that is irresponsible and in turn yes...it does seem entitled and out of touch in the wake of everything else going on right now.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by Ayne11
Posted by Teachergal
Seriously? You called the police and asked them to "step up patrols" in your neighborhood? Do you know what's going on out there? I agree that I would feel violated and I might even have called the police to report it, but to ask them to "step up patrols" when there is SO MUCH MORE going on comes across as being entitled and out of touch.
Entitled and out of touch are Assholes cutting gas lines making people who have been waiting 4+ hours lose their shit, people pulling guns on people, people going to gas staions armed with baseball bats "just in case" looters, home invaders, rioters.
Big deal, so she called the cops. What would you have done, offered him a cup of coffee and lounge chair to sit on so he could be comfy & warm while charging up his device? I wouldn't.
Everyone needs to cut her some slack, we're all not living in sane times right now. I don't think she meant to come across as some people are perceiving it.
Trust me when I say people "borrowing your outlet" is just the beginning for something far worse.
Edited for spelling.
Yes, she is out of touch if she thinks the police are going to increase their presence in the neighborhood simply because someone was in her backyard. My friend waited on line for gas for 7 hours today and it got so bad the National Guard was there. People are squatting in malls because they have no food or heat. Police are directing traffic where lights are still out. They are reporting to calls of looting. I only know all this because I am out driving around myself, with no power or heat in my home. I see what's going on. So yes, her post comes across as out of touch to me.
ETA: I said entitled because her implication that because she lives in a "good neighborhood" this shouldn't happen to her sounded that way to me. As if to say a different neighborhood should have this, not hers.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
I would be freaked out also. There is no reason to sneak around. I would have the bat in my hand and let the dogs out, but that is me and I don't trust anyone. I would also have no problem if people wanted to, in the day light.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by sleepie76
The police dont have time for this.
People have lost their homes, home with no electricity, no heat, no gas, running low on food, water.
People are looting homes. Cops need to focus on these situations.
Be thankful that is all it was. Pretty soon people will be stealing generators & stealing gas from your parked cars. If it doesnt get better soon, it's going to get really ugly out there.
agreed. Sorry but with all that is going on I don't think this is something earth shattering, would it annoy me, yes of course but given the circumstances and what is wrong for many I wouldn't let myself get all worked up over it
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Just upset: Sandy related
I'd LOVE to see how people would feel if it was THEIR yard, with THEIR KIDS in THEIR HOME when some STRANGER was in THEIR BACKYARD in the DARK.
The posters of this site crack me the FCUK up.
Please, for the LOVE OF GOD, get off your high horses and STOP acting like this wouldn't bother the ever loving SHIT out of you ALL.
Someone was in her yard.
People are LOOTING.
What makes you think it can't escalate from there?
Then again, OP, maybe if it escalates THEN you'll have a GOOD reason to call 911 according to some posters. 
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by HoneyBadger
I'd LOVE to see how people would feel if it was THEIR yard, with THEIR KIDS in THEIR HOME when some STRANGER was in THEIR BACKYARD in the DARK.
The posters of this site crack me the FCUK up.
Please, for the LOVE OF GOD, get off your high horses and STOP acting like this wouldn't bother the ever loving SHIT out of you ALL.
Someone was in her yard.
People are LOOTING.
What makes you think it can't escalate from there?
Then again, OP, maybe if it escalates THEN you'll have a GOOD reason to call 911 according to some posters.
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by HoneyBadger
I'd LOVE to see how people would feel if it was THEIR yard, with THEIR KIDS in THEIR HOME when some STRANGER was in THEIR BACKYARD in the DARK.
The posters of this site crack me the FCUK up.
Please, for the LOVE OF GOD, get off your high horses and STOP acting like this wouldn't bother the ever loving SHIT out of you ALL.
Someone was in her yard.
People are LOOTING.
What makes you think it can't escalate from there?
Then again, OP, maybe if it escalates THEN you'll have a GOOD reason to call 911 according to some posters.
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| Posted 11/2/12 8:34 PM |
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Teachergal
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by HoneyBadger
I'd LOVE to see how people would feel if it was THEIR yard, with THEIR KIDS in THEIR HOME when some STRANGER was in THEIR BACKYARD in the DARK.
The posters of this site crack me the FCUK up.
Please, for the LOVE OF GOD, get off your high horses and STOP acting like this wouldn't bother the ever loving SHIT out of you ALL.
Someone was in her yard.
People are LOOTING.
What makes you think it can't escalate from there?
Then again, OP, maybe if it escalates THEN you'll have a GOOD reason to call 911 according to some posters.
I don't really see where people are saying it wouldn't bother them. People are taking issue with her asking the woman on the phone to "step up patrols" and then calling the woman nasty when she told her no, the police don't have time for that. The OP can't see why the woman would say that. How could she not get that? 
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| Posted 11/2/12 8:35 PM |
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stinger
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Re: Just upset: Sandy related
Posted by Teachergal
Posted by Ayne11
Posted by Teachergal
Seriously? You called the police and asked them to "step up patrols" in your neighborhood? Do you know what's going on out there? I agree that I would feel violated and I might even have called the police to report it, but to ask them to "step up patrols" when there is SO MUCH MORE going on comes across as being entitled and out of touch.
Entitled and out of touch are Assholes cutting gas lines making people who have been waiting 4+ hours lose their shit, people pulling guns on people, people going to gas staions armed with baseball bats "just in case" looters, home invaders, rioters.
Big deal, so she called the cops. What would you have done, offered him a cup of coffee and lounge chair to sit on so he could be comfy & warm while charging up his device? I wouldn't.
Everyone needs to cut her some slack, we're all not living in sane times right now. I don't think she meant to come across as some people are perceiving it.
Trust me when I say people "borrowing your outlet" is just the beginning for something far worse.
Edited for spelling.
Yes, she is out of touch if she thinks the police are going to increase their presence in the neighborhood simply because someone was in her backyard. My friend waited on line for gas for 7 hours today and it got so bad the National Guard was there. People are squatting in malls because they have no food or heat. Police are directing traffic where lights are still out. They are reporting to calls of looting. I only know all this because I am out driving around myself, with no power or heat in my home. I see what's going on. So yes, her post comes across as out of touch to me.
ETA: I said entitled because her implication that because she lives in a "good neighborhood" this shouldn't happen to her sounded that way to me. As if to say a different neighborhood should have this, not hers.
You sound frustrated, and have every right to be with all that is going on this week. But maybe the OP didn't see or know all of what you did? She was protecting her home and what she experienced. I say she is innocent and learned her lesson.
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| Posted 11/2/12 8:36 PM |
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