• Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    The was a black preacher who had the cops called on him for watering his neighbors plants while they were on vacation. They even arrested him.

    Fucking nosy ass neighbors, man.

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      Fucking nosy ass neighbors, man.

      I think this is the root cause. Anecdotal evidence to support:

      I’m white, my parents are white, and they lived in a posh neighborhood outside DC. For 3 years, Dad was working/living in England, so my sister and I would check on the house and/or I would go up to DC for a long weekend (I was living in NC at the time).

      I arrived on a Friday night, unloaded the car, and was cracking open a beer to relax… And there was a ring of the doorbell. It was the cops. They said a concerned neighbor called, I told them my parents were currently living in England and came up for the weekend. I ended up digging through paperwork of my Mom’s looking for something tying me to the address. While the cops were waiting, they saw multiple pictures of me and my sister hanging on the wall. They said “this will suffice. Enjoy your weekend.”

      The neighbor apologized the next day and asked if I had bought a new car.

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        Further anecdotal support:

        I was out in front of my own damn house, where I’ve lived for multiple years, taking pictures of birds and shit. Some nutter I’ve never seen before rolls up on me and accuses me of “taking pictures of kids.” There are literally no children outdoors because it’s 107 degrees outside. But they wanted to be mad at someone so they found an excuse.

        This is what America is. It’s just a thin veneer of “freedom” on an underlying base of sociopathic paranoia. You’re free to do anything you want, as long as some rando doesn’t murder you for it.

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        1 year ago

        The stupid thing is real criminals are in and out of there quick. They arent going to hang around and crack a beer.

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      people who do dumb shit like this just never have something to occupy their time, so they just spend it trying to make someone else’s life miserable