Lack of respect in young people today

[booker81]

We've had numerous break-ins around here, including our next door neighbor. I'd have called the police to report suspicious activity if that happened here (people on the road at 2am).

In my twp of just over 3000 people, in the last few months we've had about 70 break-ins, no violence, but things stolen. State police told us to call on any and all "suspicious activity". Thankfully, the State Police around here are really good about responding and being courteous.

 

[fowltemptress]

Next time yell at the dog to shut up and go back to bed.

 

[MysticScorpio82]

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I like your thinking Boyd!

As for the people saying "mind your own business"...Seriously?? It is 2 in the morning, her dog is barking...Obviously something is up. She lives in the middle of NO-WHERE, not in the middle of the city on a busy road. What is to say they weren't trying to rob the neighbor, or getting ready to break into her place? I think she was brave to go check things out and make sure everything was on the up and up. JMHO....

 

[Wolfwoman]

Those of your telling her to mind her own business and to tell the dog to shut up obviously have dogs that bark willy-nilly at anything.

When my dogs (and I have 9) bark at something in the middle of the night, there's something or someone out there that is either too close or too loud. Neither one belongs there in the middle of the night and needs to be investigated. They don't bark at moose and they don't bark at cars as long as people STAY IN them.

As far as kids nowadays, yea most of them have no respect and are VERY rude.... and that isn't just the kids either!

 

[redhen]

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What she said...

 

[agnes_day]

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i havent heard that saying in years! haha

 

[NYchickies]

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[BC_Farms]

I also forgot to say that we have a bunch of hooligans "walking home" late at night. One broke into my car and stole my textbooks, my phone, my camera and my wallet. We found everything eventually except for the camera and phone (the wallet was returned to me by someone 3 blocks away who found it in his bushes...they stole my VISA card but everything else was there...my textbook was found 1.5 years later under a log in my neighbors yard that's all wooded).

My neighbor is having a bulk trash pickup to get rid of some damaged furniture from her basement that flooded, and kids "walking home" pick up furniture and leave it in the middle of the road. This has happened about 3 times. It doesn't matter if it's out for trash pickup...you don't go on someone's property and take stuff just so you can be a jerk about it!

Some kids walked through the woods a lot...went back there on a hike one day and found a fire pit and a bunch of beer cans. Kids were 14 at the time.



We live behind an elementary school and they built a side walk as a short cut to get to my block...and a lot of kids use it because it's near the woods and is kind of hidden from the main road. I use it to walk home from my friends house sometimes too. Not every kid or person who uses it is bad, but that doesn't mean that every kid is good either. There's a lot of kids that litter on our lawns and loiter in the middle of our roads because it's away from the main drag but still central to where a lot of people live (hence why there's a school there). I used to ignore them but now I yell at them. There is no reason why a flock of teenagers needs to be sitting in the middle of the road! etc etc etc


You have to protect your house, your property, and your family. If someone is in front of your house at 2 am and is acting so strangely that a dog bred as a guard dog wakes up and starts barking, then yes I feel like you have every right to call the police and go investigate yourself. In fact, after I had found out that they were walking home from a party I would have called the police again to tip them off about underage drinking and DUIs. I can only speak for my area, but kids around here drink specifically in rural areas because it's secluded and there aren't a lot of police around....and there are so many deaths and serious accidents on back roads from them driving home drunk.

My cousin has a Belgian Malinois that just barked the other day at 2 am too and almost tried to jump out of the window. Turns out there was a car going very slowly around the neighborhood and acting very suspicious. My cousin (a Marine BTW) went out with the dog and asked the guy if he needed any help finding a house and he stuttered and sped away. Makes you wonder!

 

[easttxchick]

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I agree with the OP-when you live in these isolated rural areas, if something is going on in front of my house at 2 in the morning, it IS my business. A lot of times in large, rural counties, our understaffed, overworked Sheriffs' Dept. depend on us to keep an eye out for ourselves-I have no problem doing that. Those of you telling her to mind her own business have obviously never had anything stolen from your property, had anything vandalized, etc. by some local teenage idiots out "walking down the road" at 2 am.

 

[Elite Silkies]

Kids should not be out at 2 am in the morning and disrespecting people. Shame on their parents!

After being robbed 3 times in the last year, I wouldn't dare tell my dogs to shut up.

Kids have NO respect these days.